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Edna Ferber (August 15, 1885 – April 16, 1968) was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels include the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big (1924), Show Boat (1926; made into the celebrated 1927 musical), Cimarron (1930; adapted into the 1931 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture), Giant (1952; made into the 1956 film of the same name) and Ice Palace (1958 ...
An excellent book series penned by author Edna Ferber is known as the Emma McChesney series. It features three books released between 1911 and 1915. All three books depict Emma McChesney as the central character. Ferber has described her as a stylish, smart, and a divorced mother.
Duty, loneliness, and longing are recurring themes in this 1918 collection of a dozen short stories by the author of Show Boat. Includes “The Gay Old Dog.” “The Tough Guy,” “The Eldest,” “That's Marriage,” “The Woman Who Tried to Be... Edna Ferber was a woman with a great wit and striking talent; she didn't just have huge ...
Edna Ferber has 215 books on Goodreads with 57188 ratings. Edna Ferber’s most popular book is So Big.
4.07. 11,323 ratings1,266 reviews. Author Edna Ferber described the story of So Big as being about a "material man, son of his earth-grubbing, idealistic mother". Left an orphan at 19 years old in the late 1880s, Selina Peake needs to support herself. She leaves the city life she has known to become a teacher in the farming community of High ...
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About So Big: A Novel. Library of America presents a modern classic, the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel about one women’s irrepressible spirit in the face of life’s hardships. In her breakthrough novel So Big, Edna Ferber follows the life of the unforgettable Selina Peake DeJong, a widowed farmer who through force of will transforms her ...
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Edna Ferber was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels were popular in her lifetime and included the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big (1924), Show Boat (1926; made into the celebrated 1927 musical), Cimarron (1929; made into the 1931 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture), and Giant (1952; made into the 1956 Hollywood movie).
