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Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches
by Sarah Orne Jewett
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Title: Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches
Author: Sarah Orne Jewett
Release Date: June 4, 2005 [EBook #15985]
Language: English
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DEEPHAVEN
and
SELECTED STORIES AND SKETCHES
by
SARAH ORNE JEWETT
Contents
DEEPHAVEN (1877)
SELECTED STORIES AND SKETCHES
AN AUTUMN HOLIDAY (1881)
FROM A MOURNFUL VILLAGER (1881)
AN OCTOBER RIDE (1881)
TOM'S HUSBAND (1884)
MISS DEBBY'S NEIGHBORS (1884)
DEEPHAVEN
Preface
This book is not wholly new, several of the chapters having already been published in the "Atlantic Monthly." It has so often been asked if Deephaven may not be found on the map of New England under another name, that, to prevent any misunderstanding, I wish to say, while there is a likeness to be traced, few of the sketches are drawn from that town itself, and the characters will in almost every case be looked for there in vain.
I dedicate this story of out-of-door life and country people first to