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THE YEARLING
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings; September, 1940; First Popular Edition; Charles Scribner's Sons; Dust Jacket; Illustrated by Edward Shenton; 428 Pages; 5.9"x 8.6"; Rare!! Great for any fan of the Bestselling & Pulitzer Prize Winning Story or Collector. Very Hard to Come by with Original Dust Jacket; Can increase value up to 90%!!! Attributes: Comes with the rare and Pretty Pictorial dust jacket, with photo of author on the back, in a removable protective cover, $1.29 to inner flap, on a nice teal blue cloth cover design, blue end pages, navy blue tops of pages, a nice title page and some great illustrations to each chapter heading and a Great Classic Story!!! Summary: 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. The Yearling was the best-selling novel in America for the year 1938. A child named Jody Baxter lives with his parents, Ora and Ezra "Penny" Baxter, in the animal-filled central Florida backwoods at the turn of the century. His parents had six other children prior to Jody, but they died in infancy. He loves the outdoors and loves his family. He has wanted a pet for as long as he can remember, yet his mother Ora says that they only have enough food to feed themselves. A subplot involves the hunt for an old bear named Slewfoot, who randomly attacks the Baxter livestock. Later the Baxters and Forresters get in a fight about the bear and continue to fight about nearly anything. The Forresters steal the Baxters pigs and while Penny and Jody are out searching for their stolen pigs, Penny is bitten by a rattlesnake, and he shoots a deer in order to use its liver to draw out the poison. He recovers, but the doe left behind a fawn. It was adapted into a film in 1946, starring Gregory Peck as Ezra Baxter and Jane Wyman as Ora Baxter. Both were nominated for Oscars for their performances. A Japanese animated version (titled "Kojika Monogatari") was created in 1983. A 1994 television adaption starring Peter Strauss as Ezra Baxter, Jean Smart as Ora Baxter, and Philip Seymour Hoffman as Buck. Background: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953) was an American author who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels 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, also known as The Yearling. The book was written long before the concept of young-adult fiction, but is now commonly included in teen-reading lists. But she found immense success in 1938 with The Yearling, a story about a Florida boy and his pet deer, which he is forced to shoot when the deer grows up and eats the family's crop, and the break he makes with his father as a result of it. It was also selected for the Book-of-the-Month Club, and it won the Pulitzer Prize for 1939. MGM purchased the rights to the film version, which was released in 1946, and it made her very famous. Condition: Condition is Good+/Very Good. Some wear to edges of jacket, owner's signature, pages are very good, light blemish near edge of a couple, hinges/text block are very good. Overall, for close to 70 years old its in Good+/Very Good Condition!!!
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