"It has the completeness, and finality, that grips and exalts and convinces. . . . So Big is a masterpiece."--Literary Review "A thoughtful book, clean and strong, dramatic at times, interesting always, clear-sighted, sympathetic, a novel to read an…

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 person happy, what drives us, and why; all the while confronting poverty…

The story follows the life of a young woman, Selina Peake De Jong, who decides to be a school teacher in farming country. During her stay on the Pool family farm, she encourages the young Roelf Pool to follow his interests, which include art. Upon h…

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 person happy, what drives us, and why; all the while confronting poverty…

Edna Ferber, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Show Boat and Giant, achieved her first great success with a series of stories featuring Emma McChesney: a smart, stylish, divorced mother who in a mere twelve years rose from stenographer to traveli…

The basis for the classic film starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman, Saratoga Trunk is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Ferber's enthralling saga of love, greed, and power set in New Orleans and Saratoga during the late nineteenth century.Sarat…

From Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Edna Ferber, called the "the greatest American woman novelist of her day" (New York Times), comes a mesmerizing and timeless saga of love, greed and power.Saratoga Trunk unfolds the story of Clio Dulaine, an ambi…

Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed was Edna Ferber’s first novel, first published in 1911.Dawn, a newspaperwoman working in New York, finds herself back home in Michigan on doctor’s orders. Years of living in boarding-houses and working t…

Fanny Herself is one of the vintage collections by Edna Ferber .Early twentieth-century novel by Edna Ferber, the American, novelist, author and playwright whose novels generally featured a strong female as the protagonist, although she fleshed out…

Buttered Side Down is a short story collection, first published in 1912, by American novelist Edna Ferber, who won the Pulitzer price in 1925.The stories included are:- The frog and the puddle- The man who came back- What she wore- A bush league her…

This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting…

Though he rarely heeded its summons--cagy boy that he was--the telephone rang oftenest for Nick. Because of the many native noises of the place, the telephone had a special bell that was a combination buzz and ring. It sounded above the roar of outg…

There is no knowing why they confided these things to Sophy instead of to each other, these wedded sisters of hers. Perhaps they held for each other an unuttered distrust or jealousy. Perhaps, in making a confidante of Sophy, there was something of…

Half Portions is one of the vintage collections by Edna Ferber . Early twentieth-century novel by Edna Ferber, the American, novelist, author and playwright whose novels generally featured a strong female as the protagonist, although she fleshed out…

Heralded by one reviewer as "the most serious, extended and dignified of [Edna] Ferber's books," Fanny Herself is the intensely personal chronicle of a young girl growing up Jewish in a small midwestern town. Packed with the warmth and the wry, side…

This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting…

Roast Beef, Medium The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney is one of the best works in the field of fiction by Edna Ferber .As you hesitate there sounds in your ear a soft and insinuating Voice. "You'll find the tongue in aspic very nice today," p…

Emma McChesney and Company (Emma McChesney trilogy #3) is a novel by American, Pulitzer prize winning novelist Edna Ferber, first published in 1915. This is the final volume in the trilogy following the smart, stylish, divorced and independent busin…

Gigolo is an early twentieth-century novel by Edna Ferber, the American, novelist, author and playwright whose novels generally feature a strong female as the protagonist, although she fleshed out multiple characters in each book. She usually highli…

Gigolo is an early twentieth-century novel by Edna Ferber, the American, novelist, author and playwright whose novels generally feature a strong female as the protagonist, although she fleshed out multiple characters in each book. She usually highli…

Gigolo is an early twentieth-century novel by Edna Ferber, the American, novelist, author and playwright whose novels generally feature a strong female as the protagonist, although she fleshed out multiple characters in each book. She usually highli…

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Gigolo is an early twentieth-century novel by Edna Ferber, the American, novelist, author and playwright whose novels generally feature a strong female as the protagonist, although she fleshed out multiple characters in each book. She usually highli…

Gigolo is an early twentieth-century novel by Edna Ferber, the American, novelist, author and playwright whose novels generally feature a strong female as the protagonist, although she fleshed out multiple characters in each book. She usually highli…

Gigolo is an early twentieth-century novel by Edna Ferber, the American, novelist, author and playwright whose novels generally feature a strong female as the protagonist, although she fleshed out multiple characters in each book. She usually highli…

Edna Ferber was an American novelist, author and playwright. She worked she worked in newspapers -- specifically at the Appleton Daily Crescent and the Milwaukee Journal -- before publishing her first novel. She covered the 1920 Republican and Democ…

Gigolo is an early twentieth-century novel by Edna Ferber, the American, novelist, author and playwright whose novels generally feature a strong female as the protagonist, although she fleshed out multiple characters in each book. She usually highli…

Gigolo is an early twentieth-century novel by Edna Ferber, the American, novelist, author and playwright whose novels generally feature a strong female as the protagonist, although she fleshed out multiple characters in each book. She usually highli…

Edna Ferber was an American novelist, author and playwright. She worked she worked in newspapers -- specifically at the Appleton Daily Crescent and the Milwaukee Journal -- before publishing her first novel. She covered the 1920 Republican and Democ…

Emma McChesney put down the letter and smiled. "Sit down-now that you're in. And if you expect me to say, 'Knew what' you're doomed to disappointment." T. A. Buck remained standing, both gloved hands clasping his walking stick on which he leaned. "E…

Emma McChesney and Co. is one of the best works in the field of fiction by Edna Ferber . It is one of the vintage collections by Edna Ferber . "And d'you know what I'll do meanwhile, out of revenge on the sex? I've just ordered three suits of white…

Called upon to describe Aunt Sophy you would have to coin a term or fall back on the dictionary definition of a spinster. "An unmarried woman," states that worthy work, baldly, "especially when no longer young." That, to the world, was Sophy Decker.…

One Basket by Edna Ferber is one of the best works in the field of fiction. Early twentieth-century short story collection by Edna Ferber, the American, novelist, author and playwright whose novels generally featured a strong female as the protagoni…

This edition of Buttered Side Down by Edna Ferber is given by Ashed Phoenix - Million Book Edition

Called upon to describe Aunt Sophy you would have to coin a term or fall back on the dictionary definition of a spinster. "An unmarried woman," states that worthy work, baldly, "especially when no longer young." That, to the world, was Sophy Decker.…

This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting…

The short stories in this collection take the reader from small-town Wisconsin to the bustling streets of New York and Chicago and back again. While they range greatly in length and tone, they all share the trademark wit and affectionate insight of…

Edna Ferber was a 20th century American author whose novels, short stories, and plays were extremely popular during her era. She wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big, Show Boat, Cimarron, and Giant.

This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting…

Edna Ferber, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Show Boat and Giant, achieved her first great success with a series of stories featuring Emma McChesney: a smart, stylish, divorced mother who in a mere twelve years rose from stenographer to traveli…

Edna Ferber was a 20th century American author whose novels, short stories, and plays were extremely popular during her era. She wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big, Show Boat, Cimarron, and Giant.

"And so," the story writers used to say, "they lived happily ever after." Um-m-m-maybe. After the glamour had worn off, and the glass slippers were worn out, did the Prince never find Cinderella's manner redolent of the kitchen hearth; and was it ne…

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 Girls," "Maymeys from Cuba," "The Leading Lady," "That Home-Town Feeling," "The Homely Heroine," "Sun…

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 Girls," "Maymeys from Cuba," "The Leading Lady," "That Home-Town Feeling," "The Homely Heroine," "Sun…

"The Dancing Girls, and Other Stories" contains four short-stories by two-times Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Ferber, written between 1910 and 1919. The title story paints a pictures of small-town America and of life "on the other side of the tracks."…

"The Dancing Girls, and Other Stories" contains four short-stories by two-times Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Ferber, written between 1910 and 1919. The title story paints a pictures of small-town America and of life "on the other side of the tracks."…

Edna Ferber, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Show Boat and Giant, achieved her first great success with a series of stories she published in American Magazine between 1911 and 1913. The stories featured Emma McChesney: smart, savvy, stylish, divorc…

This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting…

Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed was Edna Ferber's first novel. Dawn, a newspaperwoman working in New York, finds herself back home in Michigan on doctor's orders. Years of living in boarding-houses and working to pay for the care of her brilliant…

This intensely personal chronicle of a young girl growing up Jewish in a small midwestern town is the most autobiographical of Pulitzer Prize-winning Ferber's novels, full of fine, full-blown, and fascinating...

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 young man of twenty-four, who was presented as the pivot about whom the plot would…

Now we are led, protesting, up to a grubby urchin of five and are invited to watch him through twenty years of intimate minutiae. In extreme cases we have been obliged to witness his evolution from swaddling clothes to dresses, from dresses to short…

Dawn O'Hara The Girl Who Laughed is one of the best worls by the Edna Ferber . It is one of the vintage collections by Edna Ferber . Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ag…

president of the Buck Featherloom Petticoat Company, coming gaily down the hall, stopped before it, dismayed, as one who, with a spicy bit of news at his tongue's end, is met with rebuff before the first syllable is voiced. That closed door meant: "…

Edna Ferber (15 August 1885 - 16 April 1968), was an American novelist, author and playwright. Ferber's novels generally featured strong female protagonists, although she fleshed out multiple characters in each book. She usually highlighted at least…

"The Homely Heroine" is a short story by American author Edna Ferber. It features a writer whose heroines are generally extremely beautiful. But one day, whilst she is out shopping, a shop-keeper asks her why she doesn’t write stories about a…

"The Homely Heroine" is a short story by American author Edna Ferber. It features a writer whose heroines are generally extremely beautiful. But one day, whilst she is out shopping, a shop-keeper asks her why she doesn’t write stories about a…