Edna Ferber
1) Show Boat
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
Fresh off the press from Duke Classics—Edna Ferber's Show Boat. Three generations of riverboat performers travel up and down the Mississippi River, experiencing success, failure, tragedy, and love. Readers get a snapshot of what life was like between the Reconstruction Era and the Roaring Twenties, while riding along with the Hawks family onboard the Cotton Blossom.
2) So big
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
"A masterpiece." — Literary Review • "A novel to read and to remember." —New York Times
Widely regarded as the masterwork 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 powerful and stirring portrait
...5) The girls
Author
Publisher
Belt Revivals
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
From the best-selling author of Giant and So Big, a sweeping look at the lives of three generations of women on Chicago's South Side. Part of Belt's Revivals series and with a new introduction by Kathleen Rooney (Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk). First published in 1921, Edna Ferber's The Girls revolves around the "three Charlottes" of the Thrift family-Great-Aunt Charlotte, her niece Lottie, and Lottie's niece Charley. All single "old maids," as the...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 152
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2018.
Language
English
Description
"A larger-than-life narrative of the making of the classic film, marking the rise of America as a superpower, the ascent of Hollywood celebrity, and the flowering of Texas culture as mythology. Featuring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean, Giant is an epic film of fame and materialism, based around the discovery of oil at Spindletop and the establishment of the King Ranch of South Texas. Isolating his star cast in the wilds of West Texas,...
9) Stage door
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Stars galore shine in this nominee for 4 Academy Awards including best picture. A fast, witty story of aspiring actresses living at a theatrical boarding house. Based on an Edna Ferber/George S. Kaufman play, the tale was considerably rewritten for film, so much that Kaufman quipped it should be called Screen Door. What matters most to an acting hopeful is an open door. With humor and heart, this excellent movie suggests some things that matter...
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