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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 : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book So Big written by Edna Ferber and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-29 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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." Pervus 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, tries to convince Dirk that there is more to life than money. 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. 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.
Author : Edna Ferber
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0345805798
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (458 download)
Download or read book A Peculiar Treasure written by Edna Ferber and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Ferber's stunning first autobiography, in which she recounts her small-town Midwestern childhood and rise to literary fame, all amidst the backdrop of America around the turn of the 20th century. A modest girl growing up one of the only Jewish children in her Midwestern town, Edna Ferber started overcoming the odds at a young age. Pursuing work at the local newspaper as an innocent 17-year-old, she was assigned the night court shift, reporting on drugs and violence, and gradually finding her own voice in standing up to what she witnessed. As she continued to pursue writing, she recalls the various ways in which she found inspiration, leading her to publish her first books and later, So Big, which won a Pulitzer Prize and catapulted her to fame. Ferber's incredible experiences all occur during a time of pre-WWII rising anti-Semitism and the gaining power of Hitler in Europe, and the various historical and political tensions of the time color the fascinating events of her life.
Author : Edna Ferber
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1667623257
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (676 download)
Download or read book Ice Palace written by Edna Ferber and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Alaska is the real heroine here—with her advocates and her court attendants the members of the cast. There’s Chris Storm, native daughter, glamorous, colorful, with a story so incredible that it has to be taken on faith. Brought up by two grandfathers, she might well have been caught in the meshes of their friendship, their rivalry, their enmity. One grandfather, Thor Storm, had sought in Alaska in his youth that freedom of the frontier it still afforded—and stayed, victim of their lure, seeking through the weekly he published, to maintain that freedom. The other grandfather, Czar Kennedy, was High Mogul, big time operator, who had made his millions in Alaska, but who milked her and played in with the Outside—men from Seattle and San Francisco and Washington who stripped her of her riches for their own ends. Chris was brought up by the two of them, with Bridie Ballantyne providing the balance wheel, and Chris managed to survive and be a person in her own right.”—Kirkus Review
Author : Edna Ferber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Cimarron written by Edna Ferber and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel is set in the Oklahoma of the latter nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It follows the lives of Yancy and Sabra Cravat, beginning with Yancey's tale of his participation in the 1893 land rush. They emigrate from Wichita, Kansas to the fictional town of Osage, Oklahoma with their son, Cim, and (unknowingly) a black boy named Isaiah. The Cravats here print their newspaper, the Oklahoma Wigwam, and build their fortune amongst Indian disputes, outlaws, and the discovery of oil in Oklahoma.
Author : Miles Kreuger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Show Boat written by Miles Kreuger and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result of nearly two decades of collecting material on the masterpiece of musical theatre that Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern made from Edna Ferber's 1926 novel. Since Florenz Ziegfeld's production opened on Broadway in December 1927, "Show Boat" has been revived over and over, including three film versions, a recent TV adaptation, and the acclaimed 1988 recording featuring Frederica von Stade and Teresa Stratas. Kreuger tells a number of stories about the making of "Show Boat", such as Ferber's friendship with an acting couple who gave shows on their boat. He also talks about the stage production and its stars, including Paul Robeson, and how, in Broadway revivals and in films over the decades, "Show Boat" has remained one of the landmarks of the American musical stage. -- Amazon.com
Author : Edna Ferber
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Personality Plus: Some Experiences of Emma McChesney and Her Son, Jock written by Edna Ferber and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Personality Plus: Some Experiences of Emma McChesney and Her Son, Jock" 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 : 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 : Read & Company Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781528720441
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Show Boat - An Edna Ferber Novel;With an Introduction by Rogers Dickinson written by Edna Ferber and published by Read & Company Classics. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the peaks and perils of the great Mississippi River as three generations of steamboat theatre performers tour their shows across North America in this tale of enduring love. Edna Ferber's charming novel follows the Cotton Blossom showboat from the 1880s through to the glamorous Jazz Age of the 1920s. A family of performers dedicate their lives to bringing the magic of theatre to the small towns on the Mississippi River banks. The timeless tale is a story of love, hardship, racial prejudice, and the evolution of theatre. Experience the transition from the Reconstruction Era into the twentieth century as technology develops and war darkens the everyday lives of struggling actors. First published in 1926, Show Boat was adapted into the successful Broadway musical of the same name in 1927. Three film adaptations of the musical were released in 1929, 1936, and 1951. The tragically romantic novel is an ideal read for theatre fans and those interested in early 1900s America.
Author : Edna Ferber
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252070884
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Emma McChesney & Co written by Edna Ferber and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 final of three volumes chronicling the travels and trials of Emma McChesney, first published in 1915, Emma's son, Jock, has moved to Chicago with his new wife. Struggling with a newly emptied nest, Emma dives into a whirlwind South American sales tour to prove she hasn't lost her touch. Back in New York, Emma and her business partner, T. A. Buck Jr., try to disguise their budding romance from colleagues. After months of acting like a "captain of finance when he feels like a Romeo," T. A. convinces Emma they should marry. Emma tries to "be what the yellow novels call a doll-wife" but trades in her fancy dressing gowns for more sensible business suits and heads back to the office. With one hand writing advertising copy and the other wrapped around a pair of shears, Emma saves the company from financial peril amid the arrival of some flustering, if exciting, news from Jock. By turns sales pro, newlywed, fashion maven, and anxious grandmother, Emma symbolizes the ideal woman at the dawn of the twentieth century: sharp, capable, charming, and progressive. Emma McChesney and Co. is enhanced by the illustrations of James Montgomery Flagg, one of the most highly regarded book illustrators of the period.
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 : 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 tells the full story of the making and remaking of the most important musical in Broadway history. Drawing on exhaustive archival research and including much new information from early draft scripts and scores, this book reveals how Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern created Show Boat in the crucible of the Jazz Age to fit the talents of the show's original 1927 cast. After showing how major figures such as Paul Robeson and Helen Morgan defined the content of the show, the book goes on to detail how Show Boat was altered by later directors, choreographers, and performers up to the end of the twentieth century. All the major New York productions are covered, as are five important London productions and four Hollywood versions. Again and again, the story of Show Boat circles back to the power of performers to remake the show, winning appreciative audiences for over seven decades. Unlike most Broadway musicals, Show Boat put black and white performers side by side. This book is the first to take Show Boat's innovative interracial cast as the defining feature of the show. From its beginnings, Show Boat juxtaposed the talents of black and white performers and mixed the conventions of white-cast operetta and the black-cast musical. Bringing black and white onto the same stage -- revealing the mixed-race roots of musical comedy -- Show Boat stimulated creative artists and performers to renegotiate the color line as expressed in the American musical. This tremendous longevity allowed Show Boat to enter a creative dialogue with the full span of Broadway history. Show Boat's voyage through the twentieth century offers a vantage point on more than just the Broadway musical. It tells a complex tale of interracial encounter performed in popular music and dance on the national stage during a century of profound transformations.
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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Mother Knows Best written by Edna Ferber and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edna Ferber
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9361425412
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (614 download)
Download or read book Fanny Herself written by Edna Ferber and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fanny Herself" by means of Edna Ferber is a charming novel that delves into the lifestyles of Fanny Brandeis, a younger Jewish woman developing up in the early twentieth century in Winnebago, Wisconsin. As Fanny navigates the challenges of adolescence and younger maturity, she grapples with questions of identity, ambition, and the pursuit of success in a rapidly converting world. From her humble beginnings working in her father's keep to her upward thrust as a success businesswoman within the male-dominated international of publishing, Fanny faces numerous obstacles and setbacks alongside the manner. Yet, with willpower, resilience, and an eager mind, she overcomes adversity to attain her dreams. Set against the backdrop of a vibrant immigrant network and the bustling streets of Chicago, Ferber's novel paints a bright portrait of turn-of-the-century America, shooting the spirit of the instances with warmth and authenticity. Through Fanny's journey, Ferber explores issues of own family, friendship, love, and the pursuit of happiness, supplying readers a poignant and insightful glimpse into the human revel in. At its heart, "Fanny Herself" is an undying coming-of-age story that resonates with readers of all ages, celebrating the indomitable spirit of a young female decided to carve out her personal path within the world.
