Sarah Orne Jewett

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born

September 03, 1849

died

June 24, 1909

gender

female

place of birth

South Berwick, Maine, United States

website

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

genre

Literature & 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.

books by Sarah Orne Jewett

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avg rating: 3.68 | 431 ratings | 53 distinct works

	The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories (Signet Classics) by Sarah Orne Jewett avg rating 3.91 — 178 ratings — published 1925 21 editions	my rating:
	A White Heron (Paperback) by Sarah Orne Jewett avg rating 3.77 — 35 ratings — published 2004 3 editions	my rating:
	The Country of the Pointed Firs (Paperback) by Sarah Orne Jewett avg rating 3.20 — 30 ratings — published 2000 4 editions	my rating:
	A Country Doctor (Bantam Classic) by Sarah Orne Jewett avg rating 3.42 — 24 ratings — published 1999 5 editions	my rating:
	Sarah Orne Jewett : Novels and Stories : Deephaven / A Country Doctor / The Country of the Pointed Firs / Dunnet Landing Stories / Selected Stories & Sketches (Library of America) by Sarah Orne Jewett avg rating 3.71 — 7 ratings — published 1994	my rating:
	White Heron, A (Candlewick Treasures) by Sarah Orne Jewett avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published 1997	my rating:
	Sarah Orne Jewett: Novels & Stories : Deephaven a Country Doctor; The Country of the Pointed Firs; Stories & Sketches (Library of America College Editions) by Sarah Orne Jewett avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 1996	my rating:
	Tales Of New England (Paperback) by Sarah Orne Jewett avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 2004 2 editions	my rating:
	A White Heron And Other Stories (Paperback) by Sarah Orne Jewett avg rating 2.00 — 4 ratings — published 2004 2 editions	my rating:
	Old Friends and New (Short Story Index Reprint Series) by Sarah Orne Jewett avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published 1979	my rating:

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quotes by Sarah Orne Jewett

"Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of. "
— Sarah Orne Jewett

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"Tact is after all a kind of mind-reading."
— Sarah Orne Jewett

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"There are plenty of people dragging themselves miserably through the world, because they are clogged and fettered with work for which they have no fitness...I can't help believing that nothing is better than to find one's work early and hold fast to it, and put all one's heart into it. - A Country Doctor"
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