A young artist, wandering into the country in search of material for his sketches, is detained by accident in a farm-house on the Marsh Island. He nearly falls in love with Doris Owen, the farmers beautiful daughter. She already has a lover in Dan Lester, a young man of the neighborhood, whom she has always vaguely expected to marry; but Dick Dales culture and trained artistic mind, coming to her like a revelation from another world, almost win away her affection.
(Contemporary review, 1885)
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Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett (September 3, 1849 June 24, 1909) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet, best known for her local color works set along or near the southern coast of Maine. Jewett is recognized as an important practitioner of American literary regionalism.
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This novel was first published in 1885. This ebook is in the public domain worldwide, because the author died more than 100 years ago, and contents were published prior to 1925.
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(Contemporary review, 1885)
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Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett (September 3, 1849 June 24, 1909) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet, best known for her local color works set along or near the southern coast of Maine. Jewett is recognized as an important practitioner of American literary regionalism.
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This novel was first published in 1885. This ebook is in the public domain worldwide, because the author died more than 100 years ago, and contents were published prior to 1925.
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