The Project Gutenberg Works of Joseph Lincoln

Joseph Lincoln wrote the Cape Cod that Americans dream about: wind-bent trees, salt air, fishing boats named after wives and sweethearts, and neighbors who meddle with the best intentions. This collection gathers his essential novels and stories, including the beloved Keziah Coffin tales and Galusha the Magnificent, where small-town meddlers become philosophers and every social gaffe carries the weight of drama. Lincoln's New England is not a tourist brochure but a living, breathing world of clamming parties, town meetings that last hours, and romances that simmer through three chapters of misunderstanding. His humor is dry, his characters are impossible, and his affection for them is unmistakable. These are stories where nothing catastrophic happens and everything matters. For readers who miss the America of Thornton Wilder and Booth Tarkington, Lincoln offers the same gentle wisdom wrapped in saltwater wit. His Cape Cod is gone now, but it lives on here, as funny and tender as it was a century ago.