Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Edward Shenton 1st Ed 1938 The Yearling Pulitzer Winner

Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 1938. 428 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in cloth boards with green titles present to the front board and the spine. Boards are lightly rubbed and worn with light soil present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A classic animal story, about a young boy in the Florida scrublands and his pet fawn. Basis for the marvelous film, shot on location in Florida, with Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman and Claude Jarman, Jr., who won a special Academy Award as Jody Baxter. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Edward Shenton 1st Ed 1938 The Yearling Pulitzer Winner Click images to enlarge Description Up For Sale Today is The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings pictures by Edward Shenton Hardcover. 8vo. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 1938. 428 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in cloth boards with green titles present to the front board and the spine. Boards are lightly rubbed and worn with light soil present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A classic animal story, about a young boy in the Florida scrublands and his pet fawn. Basis for the marvelous film, shot on location in Florida, with Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman and Claude Jarman, Jr., who won a special Academy Award as Jody Baxter. FROM WIKIPEDIA: The Yearling is the 1938 novel written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. It was published in March 1938. It was the main selection of the Book of the Month Club in April 1938. It was the number one best seller for twenty-three consecutive weeks in 1938. As well as being the best-selling novel in America in 1938, it was the seventh-best in 1939. It sold over 250,000 copies in 1938. It has been translated into Spanish, Chinese, French, Japanese, German, Italian, Russian and twenty-two other languages.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. Young Jody Baxter lives with his parents, Ora and Ezra "Penny" Baxter, in the animal-filled central Florida backwoods in the 1870s. His parents had six other children prior to Jody, but they died in infancy which makes it difficult for Ma Baxter to bond with him. Jody loves the outdoors and loves his family. He has wanted a pet for as long as he can remember, yet his mother, Ora, says they only have enough food to feed themselves. A subplot involves the hunt for an old bear named Slewfoot that 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 in the arm by a rattlesnake. Penny shoots a doe to use its liver to draw out the snake's venom. Penny recovers, but the doe leaves behind a fawn. Jody adopts the fawn, whom Fodder-Wing names "Flag", and it becomes his constant companion. The story revolves around the life of Jody as he grows to adolescence along with the fawn. The plot also centers on the conflicts of the young boy as he struggles with strained relationships, hunger, death (of his childhood companion, Fodder-Wing Forrester, due to sickness), and the capriciousness of nature through a catastrophic flood. Throughout, the Baxter family is in contrast to their uncouth neighbors, the Forresters, and the Baxters' more refined relatives in the village of Volusia. Jody experiences tender moments with his family, his fawn, and their neighbors and relatives. Along with his father, he comes face to face with the rough life of a farmer and hunter. As Jody takes his final steps into maturity, he is forced to make a desperate choice between his pet, Flag, and his family. The parents realize that the now-adult Flag is endangering their very survival, as he persists in eating the corn crop on which the family is relying for their food the next winter. Jody's father orders him to take Flag into the woods and shoot him, but Jody cannot bring himself to do it. When his mother shoots the deer and wounds him, Jody is then forced to shoot Flag in the neck himself, killing the yearling. In anger at his mother, Jody runs away, only to come face to face with the true meaning of hunger, loneliness, and fear. After a failed attempt to run away in a broken-down canoe, he is picked up by a mail ship and dropped off in Volusia. In the end, Jody comes of age, returning to assume his role as the emerging caregiver to his family and their land. OUR MISSION STATEMENT: Our goal is to provide the best books for the lowest prices. We understand that you have more choices than ever to buy books, so we strive to provide the best service, accurate descriptions, the cheapest shipping and the best customer service in the realm of bookselling. Thank you for visiting this listing and we hope to see you again soon! 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