Edna Ferber

This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel recounts a spirited schoolteacher's transformation into a hardworking farmer's wife and self-sacrificing mother. "A novel to read and remember." — The New York Times.

So Big

The classic tale behind MGM's blockbuster movie directed by George Sidney, starring Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, and Kathryn Grayson. Bringing to life the adventurous world of Mississippi show boats, the grittiness of turn-of-the-century Chicago, and the majesty of 1920s Broadway, Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Ferber's Show Boat is a classic. Magnolia Hawks spends her childhood aboard the Cotton Blossom, growing up amid simmering racial tension and struggling to survive life on the Mississippi. When she falls in love with the dashing Gaylord Ravenal and moves with him to Chicago, the joy of giving birth to their beautiful daughter, Kim, is offset by Gaylord's gambling addiction and distrustful ways. Only when Kim sets off on her own to pursue success on the New York stage does Magnolia return to the Cotton Blossom, reflecting on her own life and all who once called the show boat their home. Originally published in 1926, adapted for the stage as a musical a year later and filmed three times over three decades, Show Boat brilliantly explores a nation going pivotal change through the lens of its popular culture. With a new foreword by Foster Hirsch. Vintage Movie Classics spotlights classic films that have stood the test of time, now rediscovered through the publication of the novels on which they were based.

Show Boat

So Big (P.S.)

The story of two men who struggle to conquer the wild land of Alaska and of a courageous woman who must make a choice that will shape the destiny of a new generation.

Ice Palace

Fanny Herself is the intensely personal chronicle of a young girl growing up Jewish in a small midwestern town. The novel charts Fanny's emotional growth through her relationship with her mother, the shrewd, sympathetic Molly Brandeis. "You could not have lived a week in Winnebago without being aware of Mrs. Brandeis," Ferber begins, and likewise the story of Fanny Brandeis is inextricable from that of her vigorous, enterprising mother. As Fanny strives to carve out her own sense of herself, Molly becomes the standard by which she measures her intellectual and spiritual progress. Fanny's ambivalent feelings about being Jewish, her self-deprecating attitude toward her gift for sketching and drawing, and her inspired success as a businesswoman all contribute to the flesh-and-blood complexity of Ferber's youthful, eminently believable protagonist. She is accompanied on her journey by impeccably drawn characters such as Father Fitzpatrick, the Catholic priest in Winnebago; Ella Monahan, buyer for the glove department of the Haynes-Cooper mail order house; and Clarence Heyl, the scrappy columnist who never forgot how Fanny rescued him from the school bullies. Through Fanny's honest struggle with conflicting values - financial security and corporate success versus altruism and artistic integrity - Ferber grapples with some of the most deeply embedded contradictions of the American spirit.

Fanny Herself

Tells the story of the Thrift women -- a great aunt, a niece, and a grand niece - who live on Chicago's South Side.

The Girls

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 hardscrabble property into a thriving business in a Dutch immigrant community outside of Chicago. Through her vivid portrait of the free-spirited Selina’s life and times, Ferber highlights the frictions between market and farm, city and country, expectations for women and men, American capitalism and subsistence living, the pursuit of money and the longing for beauty and art. When she finished writing her novel, Ferber confessed to her publisher, “Who would be interested in a novel about a middle-aged woman in a calico dress with wispy hair and bad teeth, grubbing on a little truck farm south of Chicago?” It turned out that millions of readers would; So Big became the best-selling novel of 1925, inspired three film adaptations (including a 1932 classic featuring Barbara Stanwyck in the lead role), and has remained in print ever since its publication.

So Big: A Novel

A collection of 12 short stories.We are happy to announce this classic book. Many of the books in our collection have not been published for decades and are therefore not broadly available to the readers. Our goal is to access the very large literary repository of general public books. The main contents of our entire classical books are the original works. To ensure high quality products, all the titles are chosen carefully by our staff. We hope you enjoy this classic.

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Gigolo is an early twentieth-century novel by Edna Ferber, the American, novelist, author and playwright whose novels generally feature a strong female as the protagonist, although she fleshed out multiple characters in each book. She usually highlighted at least one strong secondary character who faced discrimination ethnically or for other reasons; through this technique, Ferber demonstrated her belief that people are people and that the non-so-pretty persons have the best character.

Gigolo Illustrated

The basis for the classic film starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman, Saratoga Trunk is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Ferber's enthralling saga of love, greed, and power set in New Orleans and Saratoga during the late nineteenth century. Saratoga Trunk unfolds the story of Clio Dulaine, an ambitious Creole beauty who more than meets her match in Clint Maroon, a handsome Texan with a head for business—and an eye for beautiful young women. Together they do battle with Southern gentry and Eastern society, but in their obsession to acquire all they've ever wanted, they fail to realize they already have all they'll ever need—each other. A novel by one of the twentieth century's most accomplished and admired writers, Saratoga Trunk is a lively tale of ambition and love that celebrates the triumph of outsiders against the powerful and corrupt.

A Novel

Saratoga Trunk

D. H. Lawrence

Helen Keller

Charlotte Brontë

Virginia Woolf

Henry James

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

H. G. Wells

Edith Wharton

Louisa May Alcott

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Henrik Ibsen

Kate Chopin

Willa Cather

Theodore Dreiser

Thomas Hardy

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Mary Wollstonecraft

Elizabeth von Arnim

Margaret Oliphant

Gene Stratton-Porter

Mary Johnston

Sinclair Lewis

Elizabeth Gaskell

Emma Goldman

Margaret Sanger

Jane Austen

Fanny Burney

Christopher Morley

Emmeline Pankhurst

Grant Allen

Margaret Fuller

Rebecca Harding Davis

Helen Wright

Marietta Holley

Harriet Martineau

Julia Ward Howe

Ada Cambridge

Sarah H. Bradford

Zona Gale

Ethel Sybil Turner

Elia Wilkinson Peattie

Raden Adjeng Kartini

Kate Stephens

Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

Mother Jones

Rebecca Deming Moore

Leo Tolstoy

Catherine H. Birney

e-artnow presents to you the world's iconic women characters in fiction and the real-life heroines in this power-packed meticulously edited and formatted collection:_x000D_ Fiction:_x000D_ Camilla (Fanny Burney)_x000D_ Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman (Mary Wollstonecraft)_x000D_ Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)_x000D_ Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)_x000D_ The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)_x000D_ Lady Macbeth of the Mzinsk District (Nikolai Leskov)_x000D_ Hester (Margaret Oliphant)_x000D_ Life in the Iron Mills (Rebecca Davis)_x000D_ Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)_x000D_ The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)_x000D_ Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)_x000D_ Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)_x000D_ Wives and Daughter (Elizabeth Gaskell)_x000D_ The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)_x000D_ A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen)_x000D_ The Awakening (Kate Chopin)_x000D_ The Woman Who Did (Grant Allen)_x000D_ Miss Cayley's Adventures (Grant Allen)_x000D_ The Story of a Baby (Ethel Sybil Turner)_x000D_ New Amazonia (Elizabeth Corbett)_x000D_ A Daughter of the Land (Gene Stratton-Porter)_x000D_ The Iron Woman (Margaret Deland)_x000D_ My Ántonia (Willa Cather)_x000D_ The Song of the Lark (Willa Cather)_x000D_ The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton)_x000D_ Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser)_x000D_ Sisters (Ada Cambridge)_x000D_ Hagar (Mary Johnston)_x000D_ Samantha on the Woman Question (Marietta Holley)_x000D_ The Precipice (Elia Wilkinson Peattie)_x000D_ Voyage Out (Virginia Woolf)_x000D_ Parnassus on Wheels (Christopher Morley)_x000D_ The Job (Sinclair Lewis)_x000D_ Miss Lulu Bett (Zona Gale)_x000D_ The Rainbow (D. H. Lawrence)_x000D_ The Enchanted April (Elizabeth von Arnim)_x000D_ Fanny Herself (Edna Ferber)_x000D_ So Big (Edna Ferber)..._x000D_ Memoirs:_x000D_ Madame Vigée Lebrun _x000D_ Jane Austen _x000D_ Caroline Herschel _x000D_ Mrs. Seacole _x000D_ Elizabeth Cady Stanton_x000D_ My Own Story (Emmeline Pankhurst)_x000D_ Mother Jones_x000D_ Margaret Sanger_x000D_ Helen Keller_x000D_ Biographies:_x000D_ Lucretia_x000D_ Sappho_x000D_ Aspasia of Cyrus_x000D_ Portia_x000D_ Octavia_x000D_ Cleopatra_x000D_ Mariamne_x000D_ Julia Domna_x000D_ Zenobia_x000D_ Valeria_x000D_ Hypatia_x000D_ The Lady Rowena_x000D_ Roswitha the Nun_x000D_ Marie de France_x000D_ Laura de Sade_x000D_ Joan of Arc _x000D_ Catharine of Arragon_x000D_ Anne Boleyn_x000D_ Margaret Roper_x000D_ Mary, Queen of Scots_x000D_ The Pocahontas _x000D_ Queen Anne_x000D_ Maria Theresa_x000D_ Marie Antoinette_x000D_ Florence Nightingale _x000D_ Maria Mitchell _x000D_ Harriet Tubman_x000D_ Madame de Stael…

The Inspiring Heroines in Fiction and Influencers of the Past

ICONIC WOMEN: Novels, Biographies & Memoirs

Nikolai Leskov

Margaret Deland

e-artnow presents to you this meticulously edited collection of world's greatest classics with the most influential female protagonists in literature:_x000D_ Camilla (Fanny Burney)_x000D_ Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman (Mary Wollstonecraft)_x000D_ Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)_x000D_ Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)_x000D_ The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)_x000D_ Lady Macbeth of the Mzinsk District (Nikolai Leskov)_x000D_ Hester (Margaret Oliphant)_x000D_ Life in the Iron Mills (Rebecca Harding Davis)_x000D_ Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)_x000D_ Behind a Mask (Louisa May Alcott)_x000D_ The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)_x000D_ Daisy Miller (Henry James)_x000D_ The Bostonians (Henry James)_x000D_ Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)_x000D_ Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)_x000D_ North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell)_x000D_ Wives and Daughter (Elizabeth Gaskell)_x000D_ The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)_x000D_ Herland (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)_x000D_ A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen)_x000D_ Hedda Gabler (Henrik Ibsen)_x000D_ The Awakening (Kate Chopin)_x000D_ The Woman Who Did (Grant Allen)_x000D_ Miss Cayley's Adventures (Grant Allen)_x000D_ The Story of a Baby (Ethel Sybil Turner)_x000D_ New Amazonia (Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett)_x000D_ Ann Veronica (H. G. Wells)_x000D_ A Girl of the Limberlost (Gene Stratton-Porter)_x000D_ A Daughter of the Land (Gene Stratton-Porter)_x000D_ The Iron Woman (Margaret Deland)_x000D_ O Pioneers! (Willa Cather)_x000D_ My Ántonia (Willa Cather)_x000D_ The Song of the Lark (Willa Cather)_x000D_ The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton)_x000D_ Summer (Edith Wharton)_x000D_ Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser)_x000D_ Jennie Gerhardt (Theodore Dreiser)_x000D_ Sisters (Ada Cambridge)_x000D_ Hagar (Mary Johnston)_x000D_ Samantha on the Woman Question (Marietta Holley)_x000D_ The Precipice (Elia Wilkinson Peattie)_x000D_ Voyage Out (Virginia Woolf)_x000D_ Parnassus on Wheels (Christopher Morley)_x000D_ The Job (Sinclair Lewis)_x000D_ Miss Lulu Bett (Zona Gale)_x000D_ The Rainbow (D. H. Lawrence)_x000D_ The Lost Girl (D. H. Lawrence) _x000D_ The Enchanted April (Elizabeth von Arnim)_x000D_ Fanny Herself (Edna Ferber)_x000D_ So Big (Edna Ferber)

The Endlessly Influential and Revolutionary Women Protagonists in the Great Classics of World Literature

ANGELS OR DEMONS - 50 Feminist Classics in One Volume

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So Big is a 1924 novel written by Edna Ferber. The book was inspired by the life of Antje Paarlberg in the Dutch community of South Holland, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. It won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1925. The story follows the life of a young woman, Selina Peake De Jong, who decides to be a school teacher in farming country. During her stay on the Pool family farm, she encourages the young Roelf Pool to follow his interests, which include art. Upon his mother's death, Roelf runs away to France. Meanwhile, Selina marries a Dutch farmer named Pervus. They have a child together, Dirk, whom she nicknames "So Big," from the common question and answer "How big is baby? " "So-o-o-o big!". Pervus becomes ill and dies, and Selina is forced to take over working on the farm to give Dirk a future. As Dirk gets older, he works as an architect but is more interested in making money than creating buildings and becomes a stock broker, much to his mother's disappointment. His love interest, Dallas O'Mara, an acclaimed artist, echoes this sentiment by trying to convince Dirk that there is more to life than money. Much later in life, Selina is visited by Roelf Pool, who has since become a famous sculptor. Dirk grows very distressed when, after visiting his mother's farm, he realizes that Dallas and Roelf love each other and he cannot compete with the artistically minded sculptor. In the end, Dirk comes to appreciate the wisdom of his mother, who always valued aesthetics and beauty even as she scraped out a living in a stern Dutch community. Ultimately, Dirk is left alone in his sumptuous apartment, saddened by his abandonment of artistic values.

"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize"

The Royal Family

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize "A masterpiece. . . . It has the completeness, [the] finality, that grips and exalts and convinces." — Literary Review Widely regarded as the master work of celebrated author and Algonquin Round Table mainstay Edna Ferber—who also penned other classics including Show Boat, Giant, Ice Palace, Saratoga Trunk, and Cimarron—So Big is a rollicking panorama of Chicago at the turn of the 20th Century. Following 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, this is the stunning and unforgettable “novel to read and to remember” by an author who “critics of the 1920s and 1930s did not hesitate to call… the greatest American woman novelist of her day” (New York Times). So Big is a must-read for fans of contemporary novelists such Willa Cather (O Pioneers!), Pearl S. Buck (The Good Earth), and Marjorie Rawlings (The Yearling).

"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Double Day, a division of Random House LLC, New York, in 1930"--T.p. verso.

Cimarron

Vignettes of working people who minister to comfort of Wall Street magnate.

Nobody's in Town

Edna Ferber, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Show Boat and Giant, achieved her first great success with a series of stories featuring Emma McChesney: a smart, stylish, divorced mother who in a mere twelve years rose from stenographer to traveling sales representative to business manager and partner of the T. A. Buck Featherloom Petticoat Company. In this second of three volumes chronicling the travels and trials of Emma McChesney, the plucky heroine trades in her traveling bag and coach tickets for an office and a position a T. A. Buck Jr.'s business partner. Along with this well-earned promotion comes the home--with a fireplace--that she had longed for during her ten years on the road. Her dashing son Jock, now twenty-one, has just entered the business world himself with the Berg, Shriner Advertising company. His colleagues believe that with his heritage he "ought to be able to sell ice to an eskimo." Indeed, Jock dazzles them with his keen business sense and exemplary work ethic, but goes overboard on the charm and ends up alienating clients, unnerving his boss, and even patronizing his business-savvy mother. When his company takes on the challenge of creating a zippy advertising campaign for T. A. Buck's no-frills petticoats, Jock comes through, but not without a reminder that mother always knows best. In this bracingly modern novel, first published in 1914, Ferber contrasts the virtues of talent with those of experience to provide a fresh, readable, and smartly entertaining contest between a mother and her adult son.

Some Experiences of Emma McChesney and Her Son, Jock

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No Room at the Inn

Edna Ferber

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