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Sarah Orne Jewett

Born

in South Berwick, Maine, The United States

September 03, 1849

Died

June 24, 1909

Website

http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/jewett.htm

Genre

Fiction, Short Stories

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Sarah Orne Jewett was an American novelist and short story writer, best known for her local color works set in or near South Berwick, Maine, on the border of New Hampshire, which in her day was a declining New England seaport.

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Average rating: 3.79 · 14,500 ratings · 2,064 reviews · 434 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett, Douglas Alvord (Illustrator) 3.79 avg rating — 4,622 ratings — published 1896 — 493 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories by Sarah Orne Jewett, Anita Shreve (Introduction) 3.87 avg rating — 2,817 ratings — published 1910 — 53 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett, Douglas Alvord (Illustrator) 3.66 avg rating — 2,302 ratings — published 1886 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Country Doctor 3.51 avg rating — 625 ratings — published 1884 — 110 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A White Heron and Other Stories 3.74 avg rating — 208 ratings — 85 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deephaven 3.68 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 1877 — 129 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Novels and Stories: Deephaven / A Country Doctor / The Country of the Pointed Firs / Dunnet Landing Stories / Selected Stories and Sketches by Sarah Orne Jewett, Michael Davitt Bell (Editor) 4.34 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lady Ferry: A Ghost Story for Christmas 3.72 avg rating — 71 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A White Heron, and the Hiltons' Holiday 3.49 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Marsh Island 3.50 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1885 — 66 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world.”
― Sarah Orne Jewett

tags: write

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“The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.”
― Sarah Orne Jewett

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“It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one’s self. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.”
― Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories

tags: conversation, noise, silence

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Polls

January 2021 Short Story/Novella Poll

The Captain's Daughter by Alexander Pushkin, 124 pages, 1836

49 votes, 21.9%

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange, 80 pages, 1975

34 votes, 15.2%

2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 15 pages, 1968

30 votes, 13.4%

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott, 96 pages, 1884

30 votes, 13.4%

The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster, 66 pages, 1909

26 votes, 11.6%

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy, 122 pages, 1935

19 votes, 8.5%

The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett, 88 pages, 1896

16 votes, 7.1%

The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen, 82 pages, 1890

12 votes, 5.4%

Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (Title Story) by Sandra Cisneros ?? looks to be under 130, 1991

8 votes, 3.6%

224 total votes

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