The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) (Revised) by Sarah Orne Jewett cousins "Is Tracking Giants an adventure

"Is Tracking Giants an adventure story or a cautionary tale

"[A] comprehensive guide to houseplants

Now that you're the head baker at home

" --Associated Press

from Boston University

The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) (Revised) by Sarah Orne Jewett cousins "Is Tracking Giants an adventureSarah Orne Jewett's place in American letters was assured when this acclaimed collection of stories about her native state of Maine was first published in 1896. Her crisp style and skillful observation of people and places gives her work lasting appeal. "Immense it is the very life." Rudyard Kipling Sarah Orne Jewett (1849 1909) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet, best known for her local color works set along or near the southern