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Hamlet53 · 05-02-2013, 07:52 PM

I have never read Barry Lyndon and would not mind giving that a go. So I will second it.

I will nominate The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett.

"The Country of the Pointed Firs is an 1896 short story sequence by Sarah Orne Jewett which is considered by some literary critics to be her finest work. Henry James described it as her "beautiful little quantum of achievement." Because it is loosely structured, many critics view the book not as a novel, but a series of sketches; however, its structure is unified through both setting and theme. The novel can be read as a study of the effects of isolation and hardship experienced by the inhabitants of the decaying fishing villages along the Maine coast." from Wikipedia

It is available in the MR library.

Also in audio form at LibriVox.

05-02-2013, 07:52 PM	#20
Hamlet53 Nameless Being	I have never read Barry Lyndon and would not mind giving that a go. So I will second it. I will nominate The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett. "The Country of the Pointed Firs is an 1896 short story sequence by Sarah Orne Jewett which is considered by some literary critics to be her finest work. Henry James described it as her "beautiful little quantum of achievement." Because it is loosely structured, many critics view the book not as a novel, but a series of sketches; however, its structure is unified through both setting and theme. The novel can be read as a study of the effects of isolation and hardship experienced by the inhabitants of the decaying fishing villages along the Maine coast." from Wikipedia It is available in the MR library. Also in audio form at LibriVox.