Edna Ferber

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1) So Big

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A rollicking panarama of Chicago's high and low life, this stunning novel follows the travails of gambler's daughter Selina Peake DeJong as she struggles to maintain her dignity, her family, and her sanity in the face of monumental challenges.

2) Show Boat

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Ferber, Edna

Series

Mint Editions

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Tells the story of Magnolia Ravenal and of her marriage to the river gambler, Gaylord Ravenal, black sheep son of an aristocratic family. It is also the story of their daughter Kim, who became a famous Broadway actress.

3) Cimarron

Author

Ferber, Edna

Formats

Book, Large Print

4) Nobody's in town

Author

Ferber, Edna

Pub. Date

1937

5) Great son

Author

Ferber, Edna

Pub. Date

1944

6) Giant

Author

Ferber, Edna

Pub. Date

1952

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Saga of a woman who leaves her home in Virginia to live with her new husband in Texas at the time of the great petroleum discoveries.

7) Saratoga trunk

Author

Ferber, Edna

Pub. Date

1941

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Old New Orleans and Saratoga in the 80's. The story of a young Texan and the daughter of a Creole aristocrat.

8) Ice Palace

Author

Ferber, Edna

Pub. Date

1958

9) Kaufman & Co: Broadway Comedies

Author

Kaufman, George S

Series

Library of America

Pub. Date

[2004]

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Contents: The Royal Family/ Animal crackers/ June Moon/ Once in a lifetime/ Of thee I sing/ Dinner at Eight/ Stage Door/ You can't take it with you/ The man who came to dinner

10) American women writers: Kate Chopin, Louisa May Alcott, Edna Ferber, Edith Wharton

Pub. Date

1991

11) Show boat

Pub. Date

1951.

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Musical extravaganza which celebrates the loves and heartbreaks of a Mississippi riverboat troupe, starting with a young girl whose heart is stolen by a dashing gambler.

12) Giant

Pub. Date

2013

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Based on Edna Ferber's epic novel of a wealthy Texas cattle rancher who marries a strong-willed Virginia woman and the problems they encounter with politics and prejudices of the time.

13) Dinner at eight

Pub. Date

[2020]

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It is a vastly entertaining behind-closed-doors glimpse into the lives of the troubled and troublemaking who's who of people invited to a posh Manhattan party, is served with ample helpings of humor and melodrama. Buoyed by the success of the studio's multi-starred, multistoried Grand Hotel the year before, producer David O. Selznick aspired to something grander and found it in this George Cukor-directed adaptation of the George S. Kaufman/Edna Ferber...

14) Cimarron

Pub. Date

c2008

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April 22, 1889. Tens of thousands of hopeful homesteaders are poised at the Oklahoma border, waiting for the gunshots that will send them on a feverish dash to claim a share of two million acres free for the taking.