# The Queen's Twin and Other Stories

Author: Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24822

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Queen%27s+Twin+and+Other+Stories+Jewett&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The coast of Maine was in former years brought so near to foreign shores by its busy fleet of ships that among the older men and women one still finds a surprising proportion of travelers. Each seaward-stretching headland with its high-set houses, each island of a single farm, has sent its spies to view many a Land of Eshcol; one may see plain, contented old faces at the windows, whose eyes have looked at far-away ports and known the splendors of the Eastern world. They shame the easy voyager of the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean; they have rounded the Cape of Good Hope and braved the angry seas of Cape Horn in small wooden ships; they have brought up their hardy boys and girls on n...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-queen-s-twin-and-other-stories-24822/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-queen-s-twin-and-other-stories-24822/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-queen-s-twin-and-other-stories-24822/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-queen-s-twin-and-other-stories-24822/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-queen-s-twin-and-other-stories-24822/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-queen-s-twin-and-other-stories-24822/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-queen-s-twin-and-other-stories-24822/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-queen-s-twin-and-other-stories-24822/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-queen-s-twin-and-other-stories-24822/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-queen-s-twin-and-other-stories-24822/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-queen-s-twin-and-other-stories-24822/chapters/11/index.md)