Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/258852 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Country of the Pointed Firs Author: Sarah Orne Jewett Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 25 minutes Release date: January 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: 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)