Sarah Orne Jewett

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ListNov 1, 2025

American Books in Harold Bloom's Western Canon

All American books listed in Harold Bloom's The Western Canon. Source: http://sonic.net/~rteeter/grtbloom.html#demo

@firesideangelThe country of the pointed firs, and other stories

ListFeb 3, 2025

Penguin Classics originally written in English

A reader-curated list

@ern-malleyA country doctor

ReviewAug 28, 2024

50 shades of bland

If you like insipid family yarns and the nattering of old women, if you're charmed by homespun wisdom and wowed by ordinary rural New England folk saying (rarely doing) ordinary rural New England things, and if you like literature to be a gentle balm, a comfo…

@yarbThe country of the pointed firs

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American Books in Harold Bloom's Western Canon

Penguin Classics originally written in English

50 shades of bland

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Sarah Orne Jewett

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American Books in Harold Bloom's Western Canon

Penguin Classics originally written in English

50 shades of bland