The Marjorie Rawlings Reader

by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

INTRODUCTION by Julia Scribner Bigham
SOUTH MOON UNDER
From
CROSS CREEK
Hyacinth Drift
Antses in Tint's Breakfast
'Geechee
Taking Up the Slack
From
THE YEARLING
Penny Is Bitten by a Rattlesnake
Jody Finds the Fawn
Hitherto Uncollected
Jessamine Springs
The Pelican's Shadow
The Shell
From
WHEN THE WHIPPOORWILL
Gal Young Un
Cocks Must Crow
Jacob's Ladder

504 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1956

About the author

People know American writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings for her novel The Yearling (1938).

This author lived in rural Florida with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling, about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939 and was later made into a movie of the same title, The Yearling. The book was written long before the concept of young-adult fiction, but is now commonly included in teen-reading lists.

Reviews

[Rob Smith, Jr. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Swampy’s Florida Podcast: Book Review: ‘ The Marjorie Rawlings Reader’ edited by Julia Brigham.

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A review of ‘The Marjorie Rawlings Reader’ by Julia Scribner Bingham. Reviewing the selections, unpublished entries and layout!

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Bottom line: i recommend this book. 9 out of ten points.