Best Selling Books by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

"A fascinating tapestry woven from the lives of women who had won the right to vote a mere six years earlier. In Songs of a Housewife, we hear the voice of an emerging feminist, a voice that stubbornly and--given the political climate of the 1920s--courageously insists that women be respected. Fans of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings will be surprised and ultimately delighted by this long overdue collection."--Connie May Fowler, author of Sugar Cage and Before Women Had Wings "Makes available for the first time [the] early work of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. . . . Reveals themes, attitudes, phrases, habits of speech . . . and a predilection for irony that characterizes [her] later work."--Peggy W. Prenshaw, Louisiana State University "Rawlings''s poetry is surprisingly good. . . . solid, traditional poetry about subjects that will never go out of fashion."--Joel Myerson, University of South Carolina More than a decade before writing The Yearling and Cross Creek, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was a young housewife-journalist living in Rochester, New York. In 1926, the Rochester Times-Union did a trial run of her column-in-verse, Songs of a Housewife. To the editor''s surprise, the column proved immensely popular; over the next two years, Rawlings published a poem a day, six days a week, and gained a wide syndication. When she moved to Florida in 1928, however, the poems were forgotten and--until this collection of roughly half of them--never reprinted. In the 250 poems collected here, Rawlings presents homespun advice on such subjects as the trials and tribulations of being a cook, mother, friend, relative, and neighbor. She dedicates many to her favorite subjects: gardening, cooking, pets, and nature. Throughout, her goal is to entertain, to educate, and to give a voice to the housewife who sees her role as a creative and important one. In the process, of course, she also invariably reveals a great deal about herself, and devoted readers will be curious to see how the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings they know and love is evident here, in these early and spirited poems. Because little is known about Rawlings''s life during this period, Songs of a Housewife is valuable as commentary on her evolving attitudes as a woman and as a writer, and many of the same themes appear in her later works. As a reflection of the life of a middle-class woman struggling to carve out an independent and fulfilling role for herself, these poems also offer a rare insight into the life of women in the late 1920s. Rodger L. Tarr is University Distinguished Professor of English at Illinois State University. His most recent publications are Short Stories of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (UPF, 1994) and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: A Descriptive Bibliography (1996).

生活充滿了美好，但並不容易…… 一個關於成長、責任和家庭的動人故事， 交織著人類面對自然挑戰時複雜的情感，讓人動容。 ★ 普立茲小說獎得獎作品 ★ 美國圖書館協會列為20世紀傑出青少年圖書 ★ 1946年改拍為電影並獲當年奧斯卡最佳影片提名 ★ 譯為20多國語言並多次改拍電視劇及動畫 裘弟是一個單純而好奇心旺盛的男孩，與家人一起生活在佛羅里達偏遠的農場裡。他的家境並不富裕，荒野中的生活充滿許多辛勞和挑戰，雖然需要協助父母照應農場，但是他的注意力卻總是被森林中躲藏的動物和溪流旁輕輕拍打的水車吸引。 裘弟的父親是一位智慧且富有愛心的獵人，總是在情感上支持裘弟，幫著裘弟躱過母親的責罰。 那一年，農場的收成特別不好，為了讓家庭渡過艱難的時刻，裘弟的父親帶他去打獵，希望他能幫忙捕獲一些野生動物作為食物。 在一次打獵中，裘弟遇到了一隻傷痕累累的小鹿，失去母親的小鹿喚起了他的同情心，於是他將牠帶回家中，與小鹿間建立了深厚的友誼。然而，隨著小鹿長大，牠開始偷吃並破壞農場的作物，引起了家庭成員間的不滿和爭執。 裘弟面臨了艱難的抉擇，他必須平衡自己對這隻鹿的愛與對家庭的責任。最終，他不得不做出一個艱難的決定…… ＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝ 一本讓你重新思考家庭、愛與責任的書。 裘弟的故事會觸動你的心弦，讓你在閱讀中感受成長的力量。 作者筆下勾勒出的佛羅里達鄉村畫卷，也將帶你走進一個純樸而真實的世界。 ☆ 本書為了還原美國佛羅里達州十九世紀末的原始自然風土，特別邀請師大翻譯所蘇正隆副教授進行植物譯名審定。 名人感動推薦 • 有一種書，是人們少年時代愛讀的作品，隔了許多年以後再拿起來看，仍舊很有興味，而且有些地方從前沒有注意到的，後來看到了會引起許多新的感觸。看這樣的書，幾乎可以說是我們自己成熟與否的一個考驗。這樣的書不多，像這本《鹿苑長春》就是一個例子。──張愛玲 讀者感動推薦 • 它不僅僅是一個關於男孩和小鹿的故事。它是關於成長和理解生命中的美好和不如意，並學會應對這兩種情感的故事。我強烈推薦給所有喜歡生命真理和真正好文學的人。——匿名 • 在表面的故事之下，它是對孤獨的沉思。生活總是必須忍受某些事情，有時顯而易見的解決方案比原來的問題更糟糕。這本書是一本隱藏的智慧寶藏。——DX • 作者熟知佛羅里達州的自然細節，並以準確和美麗的方式描繪。書中有許多段落充滿溫馨的幽默和輕鬆愉快的氛圍。父子之間深厚的感情以及夫妻之間的愛情令人感動。——Dan T

Thought to be lost forever, the first novel of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Yearling portrays the life of a young artist caught in a destructive relationship with her overprotective mother. (General Fiction)

Cross Creek is a 1983 American biographical drama romance film starring Mary Steenburgen as The Yearling author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. The film is directed by Martin Ritt and is based in part on Rawlings''s 1942 memoir Cross Creek.

Cross Creek is the warm and delightful memoir about the life of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings--author of The Yearling--in the Florida backcountry.