Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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Although she is best known for one novel, The Yearling, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings produced three other full-length novels and two novellas, the award-winning Jacob’s Ladder and the undistinguished Mountain Prelude, which was serialized in 1947 in The Saturday Evening Post but never appeared in book form. She also wrote numerous shorter pieces for periodicals, beginning with a series of sketches about life in Cross Creek, Florida, which were printed in Scribner’s Magazine under the title “Cracker Chidlings.” During...

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