Pearl of Orr's Island, The
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Pearl of Orr's Island, The, novel by
Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1862.
On Orr's Island, a fishing community on the Maine coast, the orphan Mara Lincoln is reared by her grandparents, Zephaniah and Mary Pennel, who consider her a “pearl of great price.” They also adopt a Spanish boy, Moses, who is washed ashore during a shipwreck. The children grow up together, and among the family friends are the stern spinster, Aunt Roxy Toothacre, and the whimsical retired sea captain who is the father of Mara's friend Sally Kittridge. Mara adores Moses, but he does not realize he loves her until his return from a voyage to China. Then he is jealous of the attentions paid her by “a Mr. Adams of Boston,” and in retaliation woos Sally. Although a flirt, Sally is true to her friend and shows Moses that his real love is for Mara. After a brief period of happy understanding with Moses, Mara dies of tuberculosis. The young man returns to his life at sea, but after four years settles on Orr's Island and marries Sally.
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