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So Big

by Edna Ferber

First published
1924
Pages
218
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  1. Chapter I

    27:39

  2. Chapter II

    17:43

  3. Chapter III

    35:03

  4. Chapter IV

    21:06

  5. Chapter V

    41:56

  6. Chapter VI

    17:49

  7. Chapter VII

    17:16

  8. Chapter VIII

    41:53

  9. Chapter IX

    21:53

  10. Chapter X

    41:08

  11. Chapter XI

    31:54

  12. Chapter XII

    20:08

  13. Chapter XIII

    38:26

  14. Chapter XIV

    38:59

  15. Chapter XV

    30:06

  16. Chapter XVI

    36:59

  17. Chapter XVII

    15:58

  18. Chapter XVIII

    40:39

  19. Chapter XIX

    13:05

  20. Chapter XX

    9:45

  21. Chapter XXI

    8:57

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Edna Ferber's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel opens with Selina Peake, a cultured young woman who takes a teaching post in the Dutch farming settlement of High Prairie, outside Chicago. She marries a stolid vegetable farmer, is widowed young, and learns to work the truck farm herself, all while raising the son she nicknames So Big. Selina holds fast to a belief that life should hold beauty as well as labor. Her boy Dirk, though, grows up chasing money and status as a bond salesman, and the gap between his mother's values and his ambitions becomes the novel's quiet ache. Ferber writes with warmth about work, land, and the cost of trading art for comfort. Free to read in PDF and EPUB.

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Edna Ferber

Edna Ferber (1885-1968) was an American novelist, short story writer, and playwright from Kalamazoo, Michigan. She won the Pulitzer Prize for So Big and wrote the sweeping regional novels behind Show Boat, Cimarron, and Giant. A member of the Algonquin Round Table, she chronicled ordinary American lives.

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First published
1924
Reading time
About 6 hours
Pages
218
Language
English
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