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Edna Ferber

Book Overview: 

This sparkling collection of 7 short stories by Ferber includes some that are considered her all time best like The Woman Who Tried To be Good and The Maternal Feminine. Writing for and about women, Edna Ferber touches the very heart and soul of what it means to be human; to make good choices and bad; to be weak and strong.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Hotel of a Saturday afternoon when roving-eyed matrons in mink coats are wont to congregate to sip pale-amber drinks. Actors grew to recognize the semibald head and the shining, round, good-natured face looming out at them from the dim well of the theater, and sometimes, in a musical show, they directed a quip at him, and he liked it. He could pick out the critics as they came down the aisle, and even had a nodding acquaintance with two of them.

"Kelly, of the Herald," he would say carelessly. "Bean, of the Trib. They're all afraid of him."

So he frolicked, ponderously. In New York he might have been called a Man About Town.

And he was lonesome. He was very lonesome. So he searched about in his mind and brought from the dim past the memory of the luxuriously furnished establishment of which he used to dream in the evenings when he dozed over his paper in the old house on Calumet. So he rented an apartment, many-roomed and expen. . . Read More

Community Reviews

This was a book of short stories. It was my first experience with Edna Ferber, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Her writing style really appealed to me. These stories were interesting to me as social commentaries, being set in the late 19th/early 20th centuries. Many of these stories were about the mund

A collection of short stories from my favorite short story writer ever.

Great book! Great writing! 31 short stories. New York city comes alive in "Nobody's in town". You can practically smell the city. In the "Barn cuts off the view" Edna Ferber's dialogue is very witty between two lovers. All the stories are smartly written. They may seem dated but Ferber's intelligenc

A collection of her excellent, insightful short stories.

Ferber's stories have a certain charm to them, and were probably considered quite entertaining in the period that she wrote them. Unfortunately, a lot of the entertainment factor has worn off, at least for me. Ferber's America doesn't seem real to me--it seems like the mythological America of Norman

This book was published in 1947 and the short stories in it were
written between 1913 and the 1940's. The author writes in a forward to the book that although some of the stories are older, they
do not seem dated. In 1947 they probably did not seem dated but today they do. That doesn't mean the stori

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