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Short stories / by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ; edited by Rodger L. Tarr.
Van Pelt Library PS3535.A845 A6 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, 1896-1953.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Florida--Fiction.
- Florida.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 376 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [1994]
- Summary:
- The stories, many about the Florida backwoods, were written between 1928 and 1953 for Saturday Evening Post, New Yorker and Scribner's Magazine. By the winner of the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for The Yearling.
- Contents:
- Cracker chidlings
- Jacob's ladder
- Lord Bill of the Suwannee River
- A plumb clare conscience
- A crop of beans
- Gal young un
- Alligators
- Benny and the bird dogs
- The pardon
- Varmints
- A mother in Mannville
- Cocks must crow
- Fish fry and fireworks
- The pelican's shadow
- The enemy
- In the heart
- Jessamine Springs
- The provider
- The shell
- Black secret
- Miriam's houses
- Miss Moffatt steps out
- The friendship.
- Notes:
- A collection of most of her short stories.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 26-27).
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has publisher's advertisement for review copies of this work laid in.
- Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 081301252X
- 9780813012520
- 0813012538
- 9780813012537
- OCLC:
- 28633835
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