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Edna Ferber's America / Eliza McGraw.

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From the 1910s to the 1950s, Edna Ferber (1885--1968) published a series of bestselling novels that made her one of Doubleday's highest-paid authors, earned her a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1925, and transformed her into a literary celebrity. She hosted dinner parties covered by the New York...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: McGraw, Eliza R. L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Ferber, Edna, > 1887-1968 > Criticism and interpretation.
Ferber, Edna, > 1887-1968.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • The girls: Dawn O'Hara and Fanny herself
  • Wheat and emeralds: The girls and So big
  • A pinprick of blood: Show Boat
  • The cowboys, the indians, and the Jew: Cimarron
  • Coloring the blue bloods: American beauty and Come and get it
  • Passing fancy: Saratoga trunk
  • Big spaces, big problems: Giant
  • Conclusion: The Great White North: Great Son and Ice Palace.

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