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1.
Great American Writers: Twentieth Century | T. S. Eliot | Ralph Ellison | William Faulkner | Edna Ferber | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Horton Foote | Robert Frost - Vol. 4
Contributors:
Publisher:
Marshall Cavendish 2002
Subjects:
American Literature--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries
Authors, American--20th Century--Biography--Dictionaries
American Literature--20th Century--Dictionaries
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...1995).Dickinson, Rogers. Edna Ferber. New York: Doubleday,Page...ofGreat Son, her 1945 novel.Ferber, Edna J. A Kind of Magic. New York...AmericanSociety in the Works of Edna Ferber. New York: GordonPress, 1977...
3.
Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical
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Publisher:
Oxford University Press 2013
Subjects:
Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945. Show Boat
Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 1895-1960. Show Boat
Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968. Show Boat
African Americans in Musical Theater
Music and Race
Musical Theater--History--20th Century
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1A FERBER PLOT Show Boat was conceived on August...desultory out-of-towntryout opening of Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman’s Minick...Minickflopped they could all join a show boat. Ferber recalled her response in her1939 autobiography...
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Ice Palace
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Publisher:
Companion Book Club 1959
Subjects:
Fiction
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...of the Scott Fitzgerald type that was the fashionthen, Grandpa Kennedy -- her father -- had sent her to Vassar,she knew Edna St. Vincent Millay. Anyway, what with theblinding blizzard and the stumbling around, and no shelter, andonly the dog-sled...
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Buttered Side Down: Stories
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Publisher:
Grosset & Dunlap 1912
Subjects:
Fiction
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...furs were volumi­nous. Her hat was hidden beneath the cascadesof a green willow plume. A green willow plumewould make Edna May look sophisticated. Shewalked with that humping hip movement whichcity women acquire. She carried a janglinghandful of...
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The Royal Family: A Comedy in Three Acts
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Publisher:
Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. 1928
Subjects:
Drama
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He makes straight for the centre of theroom and stands viewing himself in themirror.)DEANWell, well, well! Where's the family!Where's everybody!(Drops 'script on table.)JOThey're not down, Mr. Dean. It's hardly halfpast one yet.DEAN(Removes coat.)I was up a full hour ago.
7.
Fanny Herself
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Publisher:
Arno Press 1975
Subjects:
Jews--Fiction
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Dawn O'Hara: The Girl Who Laughed
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Publisher:
Frederick A. Strokes Company 1911 (8th edition)
Subjects:
Fiction
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Emma McChesney & Co
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Publisher:
Grosset & Dunlap 1915
Subjects:
Fiction
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IITHANKS TO MISS MORRISSEYIT was Fat Ed Meyers, of the Sans-Silk SkirtCompany, who first said that Mrs. EmmaMcChesney was the Maude Adams of the busi­ness world. It was on the occasion of his beingcalled to the carpet for his failure to make.Sans-silks as popular as Emma McChesney'sfamed
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A Dictionary of Literary Symbols
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press 1999
Subjects:
Symbolism In Literature--Dictionaries
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...day and night,and busily wove / the giant tapestry of his song” (“The Poet Firdusi”1.21—24). Edna St. Vincent Millay imagines a harp on which a motherweaves clothing for her child in “The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver...
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