Edna Ferber
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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Dawn O'Hara: The Girl Who Laughed (1911) is a novel by Edna Ferber. Written while the author was recovering from a bout of anemia, Ferber's debut marked the beginning of an illustrious literary career. Inspired by her experience as a reporter in the city and countryside, Dawn O'Hara: The Girl Who Laughed is the story of a young woman who recognizes the unhappiness in her life and decides to risk it all for something better. Lighthearted in nature,...
2) So Big
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English
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Life story of Selina De Jong, the wife of a Dutch farmer, whose indomitable spirit rises above her many years of hardship.
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English
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From the Foreword:
"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 never necessary that he remind her to be more careful of her finger-nails and grammar? After Puss in Boots had won wealth and a wife for his young master did not that
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Fanny Herself (1917) is a novel by Edna Ferber. Inspired by her experience as a young Jewish woman from the Midwest, Fanny Herself is the story of a young woman who recognizes the unhappiness in her life and decides to risk it all for something better. Lighthearted in nature, yet serious in its ideals, Ferber's novel recalls the best of Fitzgerald in its unswerving commitment to humanity in all its beauty and heartbreak. "You could not have lived...
7) Show boat
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Publisher
Doubleday, Page, & Co
Pub. Date
1926.
Language
English
Description
Narrative of the Hawks-Ravenal family on the Mississippi, in "Cotton Blossom", their floating palace theater.
8) Giant
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Publisher
Doubleday & Co
Pub. Date
1952.
Language
English
Description
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.
11) Cimarron
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Publisher
Doubleday, Doran and Company
Pub. Date
1930.
Language
English
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"Epic western about the Cravat family settling the Oklahoma prairie. Yancy Cravat is a newspaperman and lawyer who helps found the town of Osage. An adventurer, he finds town-life stifling and seeks his thrills even further into the frontier. His wife ends up becoming a town leader when his absences leave her no other choice." --
12) Ice Palace
Author
Publisher
Doubleday & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
1958.
Language
English
Description
A love story set in modern Alaska, with historical and social background.
13) American beauty
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Publisher
Doubleday, Doran & Co
Pub. Date
1931.
Language
English
Description
Pictures the life of wealthy aristocrats on a large Connecticut estate in 1700, the decline of the estate by 1890 and the possibility of its revival in 1930.
"Originally published in 1931, this bestselling American family saga from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Ferber shares the story of the Oakes family, as their relationships and property encounter numerous struggles over the course of hundreds of years. In the early 18th century, the Oakes...
15) A kind of magic
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
English
Description
Continuation of the author's account of her writing career from 1939, the point at which "A peculiar treasure" left off, to 1963. Includes glimpses of such personalities as George S. Kaufman, Mike Todd, and James Dean.
16) Great son
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Publisher
Doubleday, Doran & Co
Pub. Date
1945.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of four generations of the Melendys, a family grown rich and ill at ease, who watched Seattle grow from a village to a skyscraper town, who felt the rhythm and sweep of America in the building, and the call of the Alaskan gold fields. There is Madam Exact Melendy, who saw Seattle grow from an Indian camp to the wonder city of the Northwest, and Vaughan, her son, who wrested three fortunes from the wilderness, but yielded to the domination...
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Publisher
Doubleday, Doran & Co
Pub. Date
1941.
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English
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It covers three generations of the fictional Kincaid family, robber barons who made their family fortune with questionable tactics in the 19th century (the family patriarch may have actually robbed, cheated, and even murdered in his rise from humble railroad worker to multi-millionaire). The second and third acts follow the family over the next generations as they strive to become acceptable in respectable New York high society.
19) Come and get it
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Publisher
Doubleday, Doran & Co
Pub. Date
1935.
Language
English
Description
Originally published in 1935, this is Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Ferber's sprawling novel of Wisconsin's logging days, when fortunes -- and families -- were made and broken over king lumber. Barney Glasgow, who had fought his way up from chore-boy in the lumber camps of Iron Ridge to lumber king of Wisconsin, is fifty-three and has much reason to be content when the granddaughter of his old friend, Swan Bostrom, disrupts his life. But destiny provides...
