Edna Ferber: 47 books

This 1922 collection of eight stories features "The Afternoon of a Faun," "Old Man Minick," "Gigolo," "Not a Day Over Twenty-one," "Home Girl," "Ain't Nature Wonderful!" "The Sudden Sixties," and "If I Should Ever Travel!"  The title story was made into a 1926 movie—the first but not the last of her tales to be filmed.

Duty, loneliness, and longing are recurring themes in this 1918 collection of a dozen short stories by the author of Show Boat. Includes “The Gay Old Dog.” “The Tough Guy,” “The Eldest,” “That's Marriage,” “The Woman Who Tried to Be Good,” “The Girl Who Went Right,” “The Hooker-Up-the-Back,” and “The Guiding Miss Gowd.”

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 as the pivot about whom the plot would revolve. Now we are led, protesting, up to a grubby...

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