Dec 25, 2009

The Yearling | Related Titles

Many of Rawlings's other works examine characters, settings, and themes similar to those in The Yearling. South Moon Under describes a family of Florida moonshiners trying to cope with the uncertainties of daily existence in the scrub. When the Whippoorwill (1940) is a collection of stories about Florida and its people. It includes two prize-winning stories: "Jacob's Ladder," which tells of a girl living in the marsh with her common-law trapper husband, and "Gal Young Un," the story of an unhappy man who marries an older widow for her money, and then asks a younger...