Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The Jucklins is an 1896 novel by Opie Read. It was a best selling book in the United States, (Read asserted that over one million copies were sold) though it never appeared on the best-sellers list in the The Bookman since its early and primary sales were of cheap paperback copies sold on trains and at newsstands.The story is set in the backwoods of North Carolina. Teacher Bill Hawes lives with the Jucklins,a local farming family, including father Lim Jucklin, daughter Guinea and son Alf.Read reported that he sold the book for $700 to publisher Laird & Lee. He needed the cash to pay off a poker debt. A sequel of sorts, Old Lim Jucklin was released in 1905, and consists of a "collection of random observations and humors in the cracker-box philosopher manner.". }
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- The_Jucklins abstract "The Jucklins is an 1896 novel by Opie Read. It was a best selling book in the United States, (Read asserted that over one million copies were sold) though it never appeared on the best-sellers list in the The Bookman since its early and primary sales were of cheap paperback copies sold on trains and at newsstands.The story is set in the backwoods of North Carolina. Teacher Bill Hawes lives with the Jucklins,a local farming family, including father Lim Jucklin, daughter Guinea and son Alf.Read reported that he sold the book for $700 to publisher Laird & Lee. He needed the cash to pay off a poker debt. A sequel of sorts, Old Lim Jucklin was released in 1905, and consists of a "collection of random observations and humors in the cracker-box philosopher manner."".