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(0)Edna Ferber
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English
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The basis for the classic film starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman, Saratoga Trunk is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Ferber's enthralling saga of love, greed, and power set in New Orleans and Saratoga during the late nineteenth century.
Saratoga Trunk unfolds the story of Clio Dulaine, an ambitious Creole beauty who more than meets her match in Clint Maroon, a handsome Texan with a head for business—and
...2) Show boat
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English
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Narrative of the Hawks-Ravenal family on the Mississippi, in "Cotton Blossom", their floating palace theater.
3) So big
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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The unforgettable story of Selina Peake Dejong, a gambler's daughter, and her stuggles to stay afloat and maintain her dignity and her sanity in the face of marriage, widowhood, and single parenthood.
4) Giant
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English
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The basis for the classic film starring James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, and Rock Hudson, Giant is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Ferber's sweeping generational tale of power, love, cattle barons, and oil tycoons, set in Texas during the first half of the twentieth century.
When larger-than-life cattle rancher Jordan "Bick" Benedict arrives at the family home of sharp-witted but genteel Virginia socialite Leslie Lynnton to purchase a racehorse,...
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Book Jungle
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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This is the story of Fanny Brandeis, a Jewish girl of energy and spirit, who is caught by the glamour of big business and works out her destiny along original lines. This intensely personal chronicle of a young girl growing up Jewish in a small midwestern town is the most autobiographical of Ferber's novels.
7) Cimarron
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English
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Epic western about the Cravat family settling the Oklahoma prairie. Yancy Cravat is a newspaperman and lawyer who helps found the town of Osage. An adventurer, he finds town-life stifling and seeks his thrills even further into the frontier. His wife ends up becoming a town leader when his absences leave her no other choice.
13) Stage door
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
p2005, c1937
Language
English
Description
The story of a theatrical boarding house occupied by hopeful actresses, their lives and loves, centering around the entrance of an heiress who wants to try acting. She inadvertantly takes an important role from an impoverished actress who kills herself just before the plays's opening night.
15) Show boat
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Criterion collection volume 1021
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Edna Ferber's classic tale of life and love among a theatrical troupe on a Mississippi riverboat." --
18) Show boat
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co. and Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Musical extravaganza which celebrates the loves and heartbreaks of a Mississippi riverboat troupe, starting with a young girl whose heart is stolen by a dashing gambler.
20) Dinner at eight
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A Park Avenue snob assembles a motley group for a dinner party in honor of a visiting English peer. All of the guests have problems of their own which come out over the dinner conversation.
