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Edna Ferber
"Fanny Herself" by means of Edna Ferber is a charming novel that delves into the lifestyles of Fanny Brandeis, a younger Jewish woman developing up in the early twentieth century…
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"Half Portions" by Edna Ferber is a poignant novel that epitomizes American literature, delving into the complexities of family dynamics, ambition, and success against the backdrop of the Great Depression…
"One Basket" by Edna Ferber is a poignant collection of short stories set primarily in the American Midwest, where the author draws upon her own upbringing. Through rich character studies…
In So Big, Edna Ferber weaves an inspiring tale of resilience and ambition through the life of Selina Peake DeJong. Set against the backdrop of early 20th-century America, this Pulitzer…
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So big is Edna Ferber's Pulitzer Prize winning novel. It is a book about dreams and realities; about choosing between money and artist success. It questions what really makes a…
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Eliza McGraw
From the 1910s to the 1950s, Edna Ferber published a series of bestselling novels that transformed her into a literary celebrity. Eliza McGraw provides the first in-depth critical study of…
Julie Gilbert
FERBER: A BIOGRAPHY OF EDNA FERBER
It has become the fashion among novelists to introduce their hero in knee pants, their heroine in pinafore and pigtails. Time was when we were rushed up to a stalwart…
Ed Ifkovic
Three years after the Crash that ushered in the Great Depression, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and playwright Edna Ferber finds herself a guest at�..
A sweltering July in Chicago, 1923. Edna Ferber, now a famous short-story writer, is supposed to be researching the novel that will become So Big, her Pulitzer-Prize winner…
Rogers Dickinson,Edna Ferber
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Edna Ferber’s Cimarron, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
Also includes Broadway to Buenos Aires, Thanks to Miss Morrissey, A Closer Corporation, Blue Serge, ‘Hoops, My Dear!’, Sisters under Their Skin, and An Etude for Emma.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
This volume includes The Frog and the Puddle, The Man Who Came Back, What She Wore, A Bush League Hero, The Kitchen Side of the Door, One of the Old…
In the first place, gigolo is slang. In the second place (with no desire to appear patronizing, but one’s French conversation class does not include the argot), it is French…
As in all Miss Ferber’s work there is a certain fine, human quality in these stories which makes a swift and irresistible appeal. – New York Times
Show Boat is a 1926 novel by American author and dramatist Edna Ferber. It chronicles the lives of three generations of performers on the Cotton Blossom, a floating theater on…
I think I ought to tell you, she began, that I never was a minister’s daughter, and I don’t remember ever havin’ been deserted by my sweetheart when I was…
She leaned over my pillow and closed my eyelids gently with her sweet, cool fingers. You are coming home with me and you shall sleep and eat until you are…
Also included in this volume are The Gay Old Dog, The Tough Guy, The Eldest, That’s Marriage, The Woman Who Tried to Be Good, The Girl Who Went Right, The…
Also includes The Gay Old Dog, That’s Marriage, Farmer in the Dell, Un Morso doo Pang, Long Distance and The Maternal Feminine.
