The Yearling & Cross Creek (Annotated)

Bringing together The Yearling and Cross Creek, this volume presents Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's most enduring visions of rural Florida. The Yearling is a finely wrought coming-of-age novel in which young Jody Baxter's attachment to a fawn becomes a painful education in love, necessity, and moral responsibility. Cross Creek, by contrast, is autobiographical, a lyrical yet observant account of Rawli...