The Country of the Pointed Firs: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 20 original MP3 tracks, 4:25:23 running time and a link to listen.
The Country of the Pointed Firs, credited to Sarah Orne Jewett, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
Librivox recording of Country of the Pointed Firs, by Sarah Orne Jewett. The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) is considered Jewett's finest work, described by Henry James as her "beautiful little quantum of achievement." Despite James's diminutives, the novel remains a classic. Because it is loosely structured, many critics view the book not as a novel, but a series of sketches; however, its structure is unified through both setting and theme. Jewett herself felt that her strengths as a writer lay not in plot development or dramatic tension, but in character development. Indeed, she determined early in her career to preserve a disappearing way of life, and her novel can be read as a study of the effects of isolation and hardship on the inhabitants who lived in the decaying fishing villages along the Maine coast. (summary from Gutenberg e-text)
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Country of the Pointed Firs
- Author credits: Sarah Orne Jewett
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 20
- Listed recording duration: 4:25:23
Catalogue topics
- audio book
- novel
Track guide
- 01 - The Return / 02 - Mrs. Todd — 11:21
- 03 - The Schoolhouse — 5:35
- 04 - At the Schoolhouse Window — 6:43
- 05 - Captain Littlepage — 14:19
- 06 - The Waiting Place — 13:56
- 07 - The Outer Island — 6:57
- 08 - Green Island — 21:59
- 09 - William — 6:59
- 10 - Where Pennyroyal Grew — 10:51
- 11 - The Old Singers — 8:04
- 12 - A Strange Sail — 13:44
- 13 - Poor Joanna — 20:16
- 14 - The Hermitage — 14:14
- 15 - On Shell-heap Island — 7:58
- 16 - The Great Expedition — 12:40
- 17 - A Country Road — 13:42
- 18 - The Bowden Reunion — 26:28
- 19 - The Feast's End — 11:51
- 20 - Along Shore — 28:31
- 21 - The Backward View — 9:21
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