The Yearling (Annotated)

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's The Yearling is a lyrical coming-of-age novel set in the remote scrublands of post–Civil War Florida, where young Jody Baxter's bond with an orphaned fawn becomes a tender yet painful education in love, responsibility, and loss. Written in richly textured regional prose, the novel combines pastoral beauty with unsentimental realism, placing it within the tradition of Ame...