Cheerful by Request (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Edna Ferber

Overview

Duty, loneliness, and longing are recurring themes in this 1918 collection of a dozen short stories by the author of Show Boat. Includes “The Gay Old Dog.” “The Tough Guy,” “The Eldest,” “That's Marriage,” “The Woman Who Tried to Be Good,” “The Girl Who Went Right,” “The Hooker-Up-the-Back,” and “The Guiding Miss Gowd.”

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411456754
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	05/17/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	388
File size:	311 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Edna Ferber (1885-1968) was an American journalist and writer.  Her stories feature strong female protagonists as well as characters who overcome discrimination. Her 1924 novel So Big won the Pulitzer Prize, and her novel Show Boat (1926) was adapted into one of the great American musicals.  Her later novel Giant (1952) was made into blockbuster film.