Sarah Orne Jewett Bücher

Neuengland, 1877: Die Bostoner Freundinnen Helen und Kate verbringen einen Sommer im Küstenstädtchen Deephaven, um das Haus von Kates verstorbener Großtante zu hüten. Neugierig auf den Ort und seine Geschichte tauchen sie ein in die Erzählungen ihrer neuen Nachbarn, trinken Tee mit der Frau des Leuchtturmwärters, treffen einen Fischer, dessen große Liebe einer Katze galt, und Kapitäne, die sich wehmütig an ihre Abenteuer auf hoher See erinnern. Aus ihren eigenen Erlebnissen an der Küste von Maine schuf Sarah Orne Jewett, die eine Vorliebe für die etwas heruntergekommenen Hafenstädte und ihre eigenwilligen Bewohner hatte, den Schauplatz ihres ersten Romans »Deephaven«, einer vergessenen Perle der amerikanischen Literatur, voll liebenswürdigem Humor, aufmerksamen Beobachtungen und anrührenden Begegnungen mit Menschen, deren Schicksal vom Meer und von der Seefahrt geprägt ist.

Buch mit Zeichnungen von Hanny Fries und Nachworte von Elisabeth Schnack. Umfasst 378 Seiten.

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For a great many years it had been understood in Longfield that Miss Horatia Dane once had a lover, and that he had been lost at sea. By little and little, in one way and another, her acquaintances had found out or made up the whole story; and Miss Dane stood in the position, not of an unmarried woman exactly, but rather of having spent most of her life in a long and lonely widowhood. She looked like a person with a history, strangers often said (as if we each did not have a history); and her own unbroken reserve about this romance of hers gave everybody the more respect for it. The Longfield people paid willing deference to Miss Dane: her family had always been one that could be liked and respected, and she was the last that was left in the old home of which she was so fond. This was a high, square house, with a row of pointed windows in its roof, a peaked porch in front, with some lilac-bushes around it; and down by the road was a long, orderly procession of poplars, like a row of sentinels standing guard. She had lived here alone since her father's death, twenty years before. She was a kind, just woman, whose pleasures were of a stately and sober sort; and she seemed not unhappy in her loneliness, though she sometimes said gravely that she was the last of her family, as if the fact had a great sadness for her.

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