Edna Ferber

Roast Beef, Medium

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Edna Ferber



This book follows the adventures of Emma McChesney, a smart and savvy divorced mother who travels the Midwest as a sales representative for …

Fanny Herself

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Edna Ferber



Fanny Herself is the story of Fanny Brandeis, a young girl coming of age in the Midwest at the turn of the 20th century. It is generally co…

Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed

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Edna Ferber



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 Mich…

Personality Plus

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Edna Ferber



Personality Plus is an early novel by American author Edna Ferber. Originally published in 1914, Personality Plus is the second of three vol…

Buttered Side Down

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Edna Ferber



"And so," the story writers used to say, "they lived happily ever after."Um-m-m—maybe. After the glamour had worn off, a…

The Dancing Girls

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Edna Ferber



The Dancing Girls is just one of the 4 excellent short stories in this recording. All written by the master, Edna Ferber for magazines betwe…

Emma McChesney and Company

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Edna Ferber



This is the final volume in the trilogy following the smart, stylish, divorced and independent businesswoman Emma McChesney in her career fr…

One Basket

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Edna Ferber



This sparkling collection of 7 short stories by Ferber includes some that are considered her all time best like The Woman Who Tried To be Go…

The Homely Heroine

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Edna Ferber



Who ever heard of a plain and downright homely heroine? Isn't a heroine by definition beautiful? Well, Edna Ferber, in her well known style …

So Big

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Edna Ferber



The story of Selina DeJong and her son Dirk, whom she affectionately calls So Big. After the death of her husband, Selina raises So Big on h…

Gigolo

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Edna Ferber



Gigolo is a collection of short stories by Edna Ferber, best known for her novels Show Boat and So Big (for which she won the Pulitzer Prize…

Show Boat

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Edna Ferber



Published in 1926, Show Boat tells of three generations of the Hawks-Ravenal family and the Cotton Blossom Floating Palace Theatre on the Mi…