The_Jucklins
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[3]), though it never appeared on the best-sellers list in The Bookman since its early and primary sales were of cheap paperback copies sold on trains and at newsstands.[1][4][5]
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.[6][7]
Read reported that he sold the book for $700 to publisher Laird & Lee. He needed the cash to pay off a poker debt.[8] 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."[8]