The Country of the Pointed Firs

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The Country of the Pointed Firs

First edition cover
Author	Sarah Orne Jewett
Language	English
Genre	Novella linked short stories
Set in	Maine fishing village
Published	1896 (Houghton Mifflin)
Publication place	United States
Text	The Country of the Pointed Firs at Wikisource
First serialized in The Atlantic Monthly

The Country of the Pointed Firs is an 1896 book by American writer Sarah Orne Jewett. It is considered by some literary critics to be her finest work.^[who?]