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Emma McChesney and Co.
Hardcover
Classic FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Bibliotech Pr
Published: Jan 6 2023
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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 ...
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Edna Ferber (August 15, 1885 - April 16, 1968) was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels include the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big (1924), Show Boat (1926; made into the celebrated 1927 musical), Cimarron (1930; adapted into the 1931 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture), Giant (1952; made into the 1956 film of the same name) and Ice Palace (1958), which also received a film adaptation in 1960.
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, ethnic or otherwise.
Ferber's works often concerned small subsets of American culture, and sometimes took place in exotic locations she had visited but was not intimately familiar with, such as Texas or Alaska. She thus helped to highlight the diversity of American culture to those who did not have the opportunity to experience it. Some novels are set in places she had not visited. (wikipedia.org)
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So Big: A Pulitzer Prize Novel of Ambition, Sacrifice, and the Meaning of Success
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Buttered Side Down - An Edna Ferber Short Story Collection;With an Introduction by Rogers Dickinson
Ferber, Edna
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Bon Bons, Bourbon and Bon Mots: Stories from the Algonquin Round Table
Benchley, Robert
Broun, Heywood
Ferber, Edna
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So Big: A Pulitzer Prize Novel of Ambition, Sacrifice, and the Meaning of Success
Ferber, Edna
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Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed - An Edna Ferber Novel;With an Introduction by Rogers Dickinson
Ferber, Edna
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Half Portions - An Edna Ferber Short Story Collection;With an Introduction by Rogers Dickinson
Ferber, Edna
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Cheerful - By Request - An Edna Ferber Short Story Collection;With an Introduction by Rogers Dickinson
Ferber, Edna
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Gigolo - An Edna Ferber Short Story Collection;With an Introduction by Rogers Dickinson
Ferber, Edna
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My Story That I Like Best
Curwood, James Oliver
Ferber, Edna
Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
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My Story That I Like Best
Curwood, James Oliver
Ferber, Edna
Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
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Personality Plus: Some Experiences of Emma McChesney and Her Son, Jock
Flagg, James Montgomery
Ferber, Edna
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Roast Beef, Medium: The Journey of Emma McChesney: Navigating Business and Life on the Road
Ferber, Edna
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My Story That I Like Best (Cram Edition)
Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
Curwood, James Oliver
Ferber, Edna
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