regshoe

I'm glad I'm not the only one puzzled about the title of The Vicar of Wakefield. Maybe we're just supposed to assume Dr. Primrose is the vicar of Wakefield but IIRC it's never established in the text.

Glad you enjoyed The Country of the Pointed Firs! It's such a quiet interesting book, isn't it? I also enjoyed the chapters about the woman who became an island hermit because she was convinced that she had committed the unforgivable sin (not certain what her sin was, actually) and survived because people would throw things up on the beach to make sure she continued to have things like thread.

I'm sure I read something else that I liked by Jewett, but the only other thing I see on my journal is A Country Doctor, which was pretty dull... I think it was "The White Heron," a short story which also has that beautiful sense of place.