Show Boat Edna Ferber – The novel that inspired the Broadway classica saga of romance, revenge, and a riverboat theater troupe: First-rate storytelling . . . irresistible. The New York Times Book Review Spanning four decades and three generations, and journeying from the post Civil War South to Chicago to New York, Show Boat has been adapted for radio, stage, and screen, becoming a landmark of American culture.The bestseller by Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Ferber follows a cast of characters who live and work aboard a riverboat, traveling in order to perform for audiences along the banks of the Mississippi. It is a story of adventure, drama, destructive passions, racial conflict, and romantic entanglements, set amid the changing times of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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About the author
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.
Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 444 ● ISBN 9783985102839 ● File size 1.1 MB ● Publisher Phoemixx Classics Ebooks ● City Vachendorf ● Country DE ● Published 2022 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 8265674 ● Copy protection Social DRM
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