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Author : EDNA FERBER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book SHOW BOAT written by EDNA FERBER and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edna Ferber
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0345805739
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (458 download)
Download or read book Show Boat written by Edna Ferber and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Edna Ferber
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1479451193
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (794 download)
Download or read book Show Boat written by Edna Ferber and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ferber's enduringly famous novel about a theatrical troupe plying the great rivers of the United States; a major subplot involves interracial marriage (illegal at the time in the state of Mississippi). The novel formed the basis of the 1927 musical "Show Boat" by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. "Miss Ferber's documentation of her story of theatre days down the rivers of mid-America is admirable. This is a book particularly notable for the small scene, the memorable wave of the hand, the magnificent dress, the unforgetable gesture." —The Bookman A note for the sensitive: Certain elements of plot and language may seem racist by the standards of today. Please keep in mind the era in which it was written as you read it.
Author : Edna Ferber
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 034580614X
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (458 download)
Download or read book Ice Palace written by Edna Ferber and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1958, Ice Palace is Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Ferber's classic and mighty novel about the taming of a great northern wilderness—Alaska. Czar Kennedy came to Alaska for money and power, Thor Storm for a dream. This is the story of their struggle, over a long half-century, for the future of Alaska and the destiny of their beautiful, rebellious granddaughter, Christine, a courageous woman who must make a choice that will shape the destiny of a new generation. Above all, it is the glowing and eloquent tale of Alaska itself—the last, great American frontier.
Author : Edna Ferber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Cimarron written by Edna Ferber and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edna Ferber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9786257120012
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (2 download)
Download or read book So Big written by Edna Ferber and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-23 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Edna Ferber
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0345806158
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (458 download)
Download or read book Come and Get It written by Edna Ferber and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 an ironic escape from folly, and Barney's son carries on the story—a story which was to end in those fatal months that closed the year 1929. Rich with the vibrant qualities of life itself, this is more than the story of Barney Glasgow and his children. It is the story of lumber, and the story of the making and breaking of a fortune, during one of the most fascinating periods in the history of Wisconsin, and of the nation.
Author : Edna Ferber
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0345806131
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (458 download)
Download or read book Great Son written by Edna Ferber and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1945, the triumphant novel of a great American family dynasty in the Pacific Northwest, by Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Ferber. Great Son 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 of three women. Finally, there is Mike Melendy, a clear-eyed representative of the new generation, who, feeling there was no place to go but up, took to flying. With her signature colorful prose, Edna Ferber brings to life the triumphant story of the magnificent Melendy men and women.
Author : Edna Ferber
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Emma McChesney and Co written by Edna Ferber and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey into the world of business with "Emma McChesney and Co" by Edna Ferber. This collection of short stories revolves around the fictitious character Emma McChesney, a businesswoman and traveling sales personnel. Ferber's engaging narratives provide a unique perspective on the challenges faced by women in the business world, making it a compelling read for fans of American literature and those interested in tales of perseverance and ambition.
Author : Todd Decker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190250534
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Show Boat written by Todd Decker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical draws on exhaustive archival research to tell the story of how Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, and a host of directors, choreographers, producers, and performers -- among them Paul Robeson -- made and remade the most important musical in Broadway history.
Author : J. E. Smyth
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292719841
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Edna Ferber's Hollywood written by J. E. Smyth and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edna Ferber's Hollywood reveals one of the most influential artistic relationships of the twentieth century--the four-decade partnership between historical novelist Edna Ferber and the Hollywood studios. Ferber was one of America's most controversial popular historians, a writer whose uniquely feminist, multiracial view of the national past deliberately clashed with traditional narratives of white masculine power. Hollywood paid premium sums to adapt her novels, creating some of the most memorable films of the studio era--among them Show Boat, Cimarron, and Giant. Her historical fiction resonated with Hollywood's interest in prestigious historical filmmaking aimed principally, but not exclusively, at female audiences. In Edna Ferber's Hollywood, J. E. Smyth explores the research, writing, marketing, reception, and production histories of Hollywood's Ferber franchise. Smyth tracks Ferber's working relationships with Samuel Goldwyn, Leland Hayward, George Stevens, and James Dean; her landmark contract negotiations with Warner Bros.; and the controversies surrounding Giant's critique of Jim-Crow Texas. But Edna Ferber's Hollywood is also the study of the historical vision of an American outsider--a woman, a Jew, a novelist with few literary pretensions, an unashamed middlebrow who challenged the prescribed boundaries among gender, race, history, and fiction. In a masterful film and literary history, Smyth explores how Ferber's work helped shape Hollywood's attitude toward the American past.
Author : Edna Ferber
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822210696
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Stage Door written by Edna Ferber and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1969 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicts the fears, setbacks and daily struggles of aspiring young actors and actresses, and, for the very few, stardom and success.
Author : Edna Ferber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (961 download)
Download or read book Personality Plus written by Edna Ferber and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-17 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personality Plus is an early novel by American author Edna Ferber. Originally published in 1914, Personality Plus is the second of three volumes chronicling the travels and events in the life of Emma McChesney. Ferber achieved her first successes with a series of stories centering on this character, a stylish and intelligent divorced mother who rises rapidly in business.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.
Author : Edna Ferber
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Show Boat written by Edna Ferber and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Show Boat" by Edna Ferber. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Edna Ferber
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9361151371
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (611 download)
Download or read book Dawn O'Hara The Girl Who Laughed written by Edna Ferber and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dawn O'Hara" is a singular written by Edna Ferber, an American author acknowledged for her insightful and individual-pushed works. The narrative revolves across the life of the titular character, Dawn O'Hara, a younger and formidable newspaperwoman. Set in opposition to the backdrop of early 20th-century New York City, the novel offers a compelling exploration of Dawn's adventure as she navigates the demanding situations and triumphs of each her private and professional lifestyles. Ferber's storytelling captures the spirit of the times, addressing troubles alongside gender roles, social expectations, and the evolving panorama of journalism. Dawn O'Hara, together with her wit and resolution, will become a relatable and dynamic protagonist. The novel delves into Dawn's stories, relationships, and her quest for achievement in a male-dominated career. "Dawn O'Hara" displays Ferber's keen observations of human nature and her functionality to combination humor with poignant insights. The narrative is not best an individual observe however additionally a social commentary on the converting dynamics of girls’ roles within the early twentieth century. With a combination of romance, humor, and societal critique, Ferber's artwork remains a noteworthy contribution to American literature, showcasing her expertise for shooting the complexities of lifestyles at some stage in this transformative length.
Author : Edna Ferber
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062310305
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Giant written by Edna Ferber and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basis for the classic film starring James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, and Rock Hudson, Giant is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Ferber's sweeping generational tale of power, love, cattle barons, and oil tycoons, set in Texas during the first half of the twentieth century. When larger-than-life cattle rancher Jordan "Bick" Benedict arrives at the family home of sharp-witted but genteel Virginia socialite Leslie Lynnton to purchase a racehorse, the two are instantly drawn to each other. But for Leslie, falling in love with a Texan was a lot simpler than falling in love with Texas. Upon their arrival at Bick's ranch, Leslie is confronted not only with the oppressive heat and vastness of Texas but also by the disturbing inequity between runaway riches and the poverty and racism suffered by the Mexican workers on the ranch. Leslie and Bick's loving union endures against all odds, but a reckoning is coming and a price will have to be paid. A sensational and enthralling saga, Ferber masterfully captures the essence of Texas with all its wealth and excess, cruelty and prejudice, pride and violence.
Author : Edna Ferber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781975752378
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (523 download)
Download or read book Edna Ferber, Best Novels written by Edna Ferber and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-25 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edna Ferber (1885 -1968) was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels were especially popular and included the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big (1924), Show Boat (1926; made into the celebrated 1927 musical), Cimarron (1929; made into the 1931 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture), and Giant (1952; made into the 1956 Hollywood movie).Ferber's novels generally featured strong female protagonists, along with a rich and diverse collection of supporting characters. 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 not-so-pretty people have the best character.In this book:Cheerful--By Request, 1918Fanny Herself, 1917Dawn O'Hara, 1911
