by Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Gladwin · Longman · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582430495
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«A White Heron and Other American Stories» is a collection of American short stories by Sarah Orne Jewett and others, published by Longman in paperback.
The title story presents Sylvia, a girl who lives on a farm with her grandmother and faces a dilemma: a stranger looking for birds asks her to show him where a white heron, a bird she adores, is. The book also brings together other tales by American authors such as Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, O. Henry and Edgar Allan Poe.
The work belongs to the Penguin Readers series, level 2, published in 2000; this edition consists of 41 pages in English and includes notes and activities.
Recommended for students of English as a foreign language and for teenagers aged 12 to 14 working on school reading.
Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett 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.
