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Hailed as a novel to read and remember new york times, so big is the unforge. Edna ferber has 87 books on goodreads with 35331 ratings. Edna ferber was an extremely popular writer in her day, and ive found that many of the bestsellers in the 1920s are overly sentimental and not very deep. Her novels were popular in her lifetime and included the pulitzer prizewinning so big 1924, show boat 1926. Project gutenberg offers 61,610 free ebooks to download. Mar 28, 2020 download so big by edna ferber free now. Books by ferber, edna sorted by popularity project gutenberg. So big is a pulitzer prize winning novel by edna ferber published in 1924. A 1953 remake of so big starring jane wyman is the most popular version to modern audiences.
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