A Country Doctor is a novel of New England village life, and is marked by the same delicate touch and the same exquisite refinement of style which have made Miss Jewett's short stories so popular.
Step into 1880s coastal Maine with Sarah Orne Jewett’s luminous first novel. Follow young Nan as she dares to choose medicine over marriage—a radical path illuminated by crystalline details of wild roses, salt air, and moonlit rivers. Perfect for lovers of historical fiction and Maine’s literary heritage.
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Step across the threshold of rural 1880s Maine, where the salt air mingles with the scent of wild roses and a young woman named Nan dares to dream beyond the boundaries of her time. A Country Doctor is Sarah Orne Jewett’s luminous first novel—a semiautobiographical portrait that captures both the quiet beauty of coastal New England and the fierce determination of a woman choosing her own path.
At its heart, this is Nan’s story: torn between the expected life of marriage and domesticity and the radical choice of becoming a doctor. Her struggle mirrors the leading women’s issues of the late nineteenth century, but Jewett’s genius lies in how she grounds these universal questions in the particular—the wild flowers nodding along country lanes, farm women knitting by firelight, sailors drifting upriver toward moonlight on the water. These perfect, crystalline details create a realism that has rarely been matched in American literature.
Though less widely known than the writers she influenced—including her friend Willa Cather—Jewett remains a pathfinder in our literary history. Her signature style, rich with sensory detail and emotional truth, paved the way for generations of women writers to follow. A Country Doctor offers modern readers a window into both a vanished Maine and timeless questions about self-direction, professional ambition, and the courage it takes to choose the road less traveled.
A treasure for anyone who loves historical fiction, Maine literature, or stories of women who refused to be confined by their era.
A Country Doctor is a novel of New England village life, and is marked by the same delicate touch and the same exquisite refinement of style which have made Miss Jewett's short stories so popular.
Miss Jewett's work at its best is of a quality so high and so individual that one is tempted to say that it has no superior in American literature of its kind.
If I were asked to name three American books which have the possibility of a long, long life, I would say at once, 'The Scarlet Letter,' 'Huckleberry Finn,' and 'The Country of the Pointed Firs.'
Jewett's fiction is distinguished by its sympathetic yet unsentimental portrayal of rural life and by its use of local dialect.
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| Dimensions | 4.19 × 0.81 × 6.75 in |
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