Edna Ferber: 47 books

Eight stories of tangy satire and sweet sentimentality. Filled with human drama, unfaltering reason, and extraordinary description.

From the Foreword: "And so," the story writers used to say, "they lived happily ever after." Um-m-m—maybe. After the glamour had worn off, and the glass slippers were worn out, did the Prince never find Cinderella's manner redolent of the kitchen hearth; and was it never...

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pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Before she tried to be a good woman she had been a very bad woman— so bad that she could trail her wonderful apparel up and down Main Street, from the Elm Tree Bakery to the railroad tracks, without once having...

There are a number of things that are pleasanter than being sick in a New York boarding-house when one's nearest dearest is a married sister up in far-away Michigan.

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. It has become the fashion among novelists to introduce their hero in knee pants, their heroine in pinafore and pigtails. Time was when we were rushed up to a stalwart young man of twenty-four, who was presented...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. “And so, ” the story writers used to say, “they lived happily ever after.

the back porch, see." (This frequent "see" which interlarded Elmer's verbiage was not used in an interrogatory way, but as a period, and by way of emphasis. His voice did not take the rising inflection as he uttered it.) "What does he do, he opens it. I come home, and the wife says to me: 'Say, you better get busy and fix a new ketch on that gate to the back porch. Little Elmer, first thing I know, he'd got it open to-day and was crawling out almost.' Say, can you beat that for a kid sixteen months——"  ...

Selina is een jonge onderwijzeres die een vrijzinnige maar culturele opvoeding heeft genoten. Na de dood van haar man Pervus DeJong moet ze echter zijn boerderij draaiende zien te houden en voor haar zoontje Dirk zorgen. Dat doet ze op ambitieuze wijze, wat niet makkelijk is in de conservatieve ‘doe...