{"title":"Books by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780349008233","title":"The Yearling","description":"\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A literary masterpiece for all ages . . . a tale of growing up, of love and laughter, of tragedy and loss and grief -  a tale that is so compelling that it turns the page for you: \u003ci\u003eThe Yearling\u003c\/i\u003e leaves you tearful, breathless, exhilarated' MICHAEL MORPURGO\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An unsentimental, stone-cold classic that should be spoken of in the same breath - and read as religiously - as Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird\u003ci\u003e' THE TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A genuine classic . . . I was stunned to awe by \u003ci\u003eThe Yearling\u003c\/i\u003e's beauty and strength' LAUREN GROFF\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the remote, unforgiving landscape of central Florida, Ezra 'Penny' Baxter, his wife Ora and their son Jody carve out a precarious existence. Only ever a failed crop away from disaster, life in the Big Scrub is one of lurking danger, wild beauty and the thrill of the hunt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJody's world is transformed when he rescues a starving fawn, who becomes his constant companion. But their bond is threatened when the yearling endangers the family's survival - and Jody is forced to make a terrible choice that will change him forever. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 1939 Pulitzer Prize and an instant bestseller, \u003ci\u003eThe Yearling \u003c\/i\u003eis a moving and richly evocative classic for readers of all ages.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201726611634,"sku":"9780349008233","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780349008233_0188e763-3e54-49c8-aa99-fecd940967d9.jpg?v=1786014070"},{"product_id":"9780813081472","title":"The Uncollected Writings of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA collection of literary work that shows the artistic development of a Pulitzer Prize-winning author\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e From her first poems and stories to her finely crafted essays as a newspaper and feature writer to the gathering brilliance that began at the outset of her Florida Period, highlighted by the Pulitzer Prize for \u003cem\u003eThe Yearling\u003c\/em\u003e in 1939, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings became, in the words of Margaret Mitchell, America's \"born perfect storyteller.\" Arguing that Rawlings has been underestimated and underappreciated as a great American writer, Rodger Tarr and Brent Kinser present Rawlings's emergence and maturation as an artist. This collection brings together for the first time the work that contributed to her once stellar position as a hero of American letters. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Rawlings's childhood publications in the \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e and McCall's magazine reveal a budding Romantic if not an emerging Transcendentalist determined to pursue humanity's relationship with nature. As a young storyteller Rawlings had a compelling interest in fairytales, marked by a sense of the comedic and the sentimental, and always the moral. Many of her early stories and poems, especially those written while she was a student at the University of Wisconsin, also reflect her developing feminist spirit, an interest that she continued to pursue as a feature writer for newspapers in Louisville, Kentucky, and Rochester, New York. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Like many writers, Rawlings was self-critical. She was particularly aware of writing as a discipline and as an adult was prone to dismiss her early work as overly wrought. However, as her mature work demonstrates, she owed a great deal to the skills learned in her development as an artist. Rawlings knew that successful writing owed less to inspiration than to hard work, a lesson she experienced repeatedly during the writing of her stories and novels under the guiding hand of her celebrated editor Maxwell E. Perkins. This collection of early work, college writing, newspaper pieces, and stories of life in Florida is an intimate glimpse at an important writer mastering her craft.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368207036789,"sku":"9780813081472","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780813081472_8616becb-d4a8-4374-80f4-03f5f98e5a36.jpg?v=1786016460"},{"product_id":"south-moon-under","title":"South Moon Under","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn often-overlooked early work—and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize—by celebrated writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, now available in this Florida Edition with a new foreword for today’s readers by Lauren Groff\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1933, \u003ci\u003eSouth Moon Under\u003c\/i\u003e is the first novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Set in the Big Scrub of Florida, a sparsely inhabited backwoods near Rawlings’s homestead at Cross Creek, the novel tells a multigenerational tale of the rural Lantry family and their struggle to eke out a living on the land. It depicts pioneer existence before Florida’s twentieth-century tourism and development—and displays the literary powers that would earn Rawlings the Pulitzer Prize six years later for her novel \u003ci\u003eThe Yearling\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduced with a foreword by contemporary writer Lauren Groff, this edition of \u003ci\u003eSouth Moon Under\u003c\/i\u003e encourages today’s readers to engage with this lesser-known work. With accounts of moonshining, logging and turpentining, hunting, cattle running, foodways, and frontier justice, Rawlings made an impact on American literary culture of her time by shining a light on the people and customs of the scrub. And in this book the Florida wilderness itself emerges as an unforgettable character, a force of its own alive with mystery, richly described by Rawlings alongside unsentimental stories of survival in a bygone century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57499399848309,"sku":"9780813081649","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780813081649.jpg?v=1786694704"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-marjorie-kinnan-rawlings.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}