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29 ratings, 3.34 average rating, 4 reviews
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published
April 6th 1999
by Bantam Classics
binding
Mass Market Paperback, 288 pages
isbn
0553214985
(isbn13: 9780553214987)
description
Though not as well-known as the writers she influenced, Sarah Orne Jewett nevertheless remains one of the most important American novelists of the lat...more
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This has some of the best things about nineteenth century New England literature--the strong sense of landscape/seascape and eloquent language. Jewett was writing about a woman who wanted to become a doctor (and back then, that meant would never get married) and therefore had to prove that this was just as "natural" as a woman wanting to tend to a household. Nan, the future doctor in question, actually does fall in love and have to choose between the two lives, and Jewett crafts her ...more
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Read in September, 2008
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The state of Mainerecommends it for: people interested in Jewett
This little book took me FOREVER to read. I think I renewed it three times from the library. As Jewett is often credited with getting Willa Cather to write about her life in Nebraska, I really wanted to read the Maine author. Overall I liked it. Very interesting story from the 19th century about an orphan who grows up with a doctor and decides she wants to become a doctor. This is not so popular an idea at the time. The beginning and the end are quite interesting. Jewett adds SO MUCH narrati...more
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Read in December, 2007
This book took me a while to get into, but I'm glad I stuck with it because it turned out to be a great read. It is about a young woman who must choose between marriage and her career as a country doctor in new england in the late 1800's. Nan is a very endearing and inspiring character.
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Read in August, 2002
Read this in Maine while babysitting for a week near Arcadia Nat'l Park. She is a literary treasure.
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"It is a splendid thing to have the use of any gift of God. It isn't for us to choose again, or wonder and dispute, but just work in our own places, and leave the rest to God."
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