The Yearling
by Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
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- first
- Condition
- Fine/about Fine
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About This Item
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' beloved 1938 novel, set in rural Florida. The Yearling follows the story of Jody Baxter, a child who becomes friends with a fawn after his father kills the fawn's mother. The book was the best selling novel the year it was released and would win the Pulitzer Prize. Translated into over twenty languages, The Yearling was also adapted into a 1946 film starring Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman, who would both receive Academy Award nominations for their performances. "The thing about The Yearling, its great claim to distinction, is that it is able to make so much of simple, homely events" (Contemporary New York Times review). Fine in about Fine dust jacket.
Synopsis
The Yearling is a 1938 novel written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. It won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1939. Rawlings's editor was Maxwell Perkins, who also worked with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and other literary luminaries. She had submitted several projects to Perkins for his review, and he rejected them all. He instructed her to write about what she knew from her own life, and the result of her taking his advice was The Yearling.
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- Bookseller
- Whitmore Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5265
- Title
- The Yearling
- Author
- Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- about Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
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