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
The Country of the Pointed Firs
Sarah Orne Jewett
Chronicling the events, the people and the relationships woven, especially among the women, in the coastal town of Dunnet Landing, Maine, Jewett provides the modern reader with a window into a time pastwhere life was much more simple but in many ways just as complex.