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This collection of short stories evokes life around Puget Sound through intimate domestic dramas, local color, and landscape description. Tales range from quiet, poignant encounters with illness and poverty to comic sketches of neighborhood disputes and holiday gatherings, often centered on family bonds, small-town manners, and moral choices. Recurring motifs include the region's mountains, sea, and seasonal light, which shape characters' moods and fates. Narrative styles vary from gentle realism to humorous anecdote, offering a textured portrait of community life and regional atmosphere.

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Title: From the Land of the Snow-Pearls: Tales from Puget Sound

Author: Ella Higginson

Release date: February 21, 2021 [eBook #64608]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

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FROM THE LAND OF THE SNOW-PEARLS

FROM THE LAND OF
THE SNOW-PEARLS

TALES FROM PUGET SOUND

By Ella Higginson.

NEW YORK
The Macmillan Company
London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
1902

Copyright, 1896, by
THE CALVERT COMPANY

Copyright, 1897, by
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

TO
RUSSELL CARDEN HIGGINSON

Some of the stories in this book appeared originally in McClure’s, Lippincott’s, Leslie’s Weekly, Short Stories, The Black Cat and The New Peterson. I am indebted to the publishers of those periodicals for the kind permission to reprint them.

E. H.

This book was first published under the title of “The Flower that Grew in the Sand.” To the present edition, two stories have been added.

The Publishers.

Puget Sound lies in its emerald setting like a great blue sapphire, which at sunset, draws to its breast all the marvelous and splendid coloring of the fire-opal. Around it, shining through their rose-colored mists like pearls upon the soft blue or green of the sky, are linked the great snow-mountains, so beautiful and so dear, that those who love this land with a proud and passionate love, have come to think of it, fondly and poetically, as “the land of the snow-pearls.”