Author: Edna Ferber; Publisher: Capricorn House Classics

Show Boat

Genre: Literary (ISBN: 9781604660104)

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Author: Edna Ferber; Publisher: Aegypan

Gigolo

Genre: Classics (ISBN: 9781603123471)

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Author: Edna Ferber; Publisher: Wildside Press

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 revolve. 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 shorts (he is so often English), from shorts to Etons. With which modest preamble you are asked to be patient with Miss Fanny Brandeis, aged thirteen. Not only must you suffer Fanny, but Fanny's mother as well, without whom there could be no understanding Fanny. For that matter, we shouldn't wonder if Mrs. Brandeis were to turn out the heroine in the end. She is that kind of person.

Genre: Classics (ISBN: 9780809594221)

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Author: Edna Ferber; Publisher: Wildside Press

There are a number of things that are pleasanter than being sick in a New York boarding-house when one's nearest dearest is a married sister up in faraway Michigan. Some one must have been very kind, for there were doctors, and a blue-and-white striped nurse, and bottles and things. There was even a vase of perky carnations -- scarlet ones. I discovered that they had a trick of nodding their heads, saucily. The discovery did not appear to surprise me. Howdy-do! said I aloud to the fattest and reddest carnation that overtopped all the rest. How in the world did you get in here?

Genre: Classics (ISBN: 9780809594207)

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Author: Edna Ferber; Publisher: Aegypan

Gigolo

Genre: Classics (ISBN: 9781603123471)

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Author: Edna Ferber; Publisher: IndyPublish.com

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 Edna Ferber's best-known works include So Big (winner of the Pulitzer Prize) and the novels that were made into the musical Showboat and the movies Giant and Cimarron.

Genre: Literary (ISBN: 9781435333123)

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Author: Edna Ferber; Publisher: Alan Rodgers Books

Edna Ferber was a woman with a great wit and striking talent; she didn't just have huge stories to tell, she had the craft to tell them with wit and charm. Her novels and stories generally featured strong female protagonists, and generally she spent a good deal of the tale focusing on a secondary character facing discrimination of one sort or another. She was a member of the notorious Algonquin Round Table, a group of wits who met for lunch every day at the Algonquin Hotel in New York. When she died on April 16, 1968, (at her home in New York City, of cancer, at the age of 82) the New York Times said, she was among the best-read novelists in the nation, and critics of the 1920s and 1930s did not hesitate to call her the greatest American woman novelist of her day.

Genre: Classics (ISBN: 9781598180985)

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Author: Edna Ferber; Publisher: Amereon Limited

Saratoga Trunk

Genre: Literary (ISBN: 9780891903239)

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Author: Edna Ferber; Publisher: Wildside Press

Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the Menu of Morals before you, your eye wanders a bit over the entrees, the hors d'oeuvres, and the things a la, though you know that Roast Beef, Medium, is safe, and sane, and sure. It agrees with you. As you hesitate there sounds in your ear a soft and insinuating Voice. You'll find the tongue in aspic very nice today, purrs the Voice. May I recommend the chicken pie, country style? Perhaps you'd relish something light and tempting. Eggs Benedictine. Very fine. Or some flaked crabmeat, perhaps. With a special Russian sauce.

Genre: Literary (ISBN: 9781592244485)

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