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The yearling / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ; decorations by Edward Shenton.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 3838
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, 1896-1953.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Deer--Juvenile fiction.
- Deer.
- Human-animal relationships--Juvenile fiction.
- Human-animal relationships.
- Wild animals as pets--Juvenile fiction.
- Wild animals as pets.
- Parent and child--Juvenile fiction.
- Parent and child.
- Farm life--Florida--Juvenile fiction.
- Farm life.
- Boys--Florida--Juvenile fiction.
- Boys.
- Florida--Juvenile fiction.
- Florida.
- Coming of age--Fiction.
- Florida--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Domestic fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 428 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Grosset & Dunlap, [between 1942 and 1945]
- Summary:
- A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet.
- Notes:
- Title vignette.
- "This book, while printed under wartime conditions, in full compliance with government regulations for the conservation of paper and other essential materials, is complete and unabridged"--T.p. verso.
- Pulitzer Prize, Novel, 1939.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 1007114260
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