Plain Maine

Castine, Maine. Yeah, I could write a novel in there, maybe. And today at Harvard Books I picked up a $2 copy of Sara One Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs which Willa Cather, in 1925, called one of the 3 American books guaranteed to endure. And the others were...Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. "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." You can decide for yourself by reading the book at Gutenberg.org