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The Girls
From the best-selling author of Giant and So Big, a sweeping look at the lives of three generations of women on Chicago’s South Side. Part of Belt’s Revivals series and with a new introduction by Kathleen Rooney (Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk).

First published in 1921, Edna Ferber’s The Girls revolves around the “three Charlottes” of the Thrift family—Great-Aunt Charlotte, her niece Lottie, and Lottie’s niece Charley. All single “old maids,” as the narrator describes them, their lives weave together as they deal with issues involving money, work, friendship, family, and love as they strive to join Chicago’s growing middle class in the early twentieth century.

With a historic span that travels from the Civil War to World War I, Ferber highlights how the three generations of Charlottes lead very different lives. But we also see the ways their experiences rhyme with one another and how, despite the social advances in America, as Kathleen Rooney writes in her introduction, all three have to confront “a sexist and claustrophobic societal atmosphere in which any little act of self-assertion can feel like a leap from a precipice.”

Told through Ferber’s assured and generous style, and full of her signature strong female characters, this rediscovered American classic deserves a spot on the shelf next to other great Chicago novels like Sister Carrie and The Adventures of Augie March.
Show Boat (Unabridged)

Show Boat (Unabridged)

Edna Ferber

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Feminist Literary Classics - Volume III - Orlando

Feminist Literary Classics - Volume III - Orlando

Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather, Edna Ferber

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Cimarron

Cimarron

Edna Ferber

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Show Boat

Show Boat

Edna Ferber

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Show Boat

Show Boat

Edna Ferber

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Show Boat

Show Boat

Edna Ferber

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Dawn O'Hara: The Girl Who Laughed

Dawn O'Hara: The Girl Who Laughed

Edna Ferber

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Show Boat

Show Boat

Edna Ferber

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The Collected Short Stories of Edna Ferber - Including Buttered Side Down, Cheerful - By Request, Half Portions, & Gigolo

The Collected Short Stories of Edna Ferber - Including Buttered Side Down, Cheerful - By Request, Half Portions, & Gigolo

Edna Ferber

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Emma McChesney & Co. - Book 3

Emma McChesney & Co. - Book 3

Edna Ferber

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So Big - An Edna Ferber Novel

So Big - An Edna Ferber Novel

Edna Ferber

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Buttered Side Down - An Edna Ferber Short Story Collection

Buttered Side Down - An Edna Ferber Short Story Collection

Edna Ferber

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Cheerful - By Request - An Edna Ferber Short Story Collection

Cheerful - By Request - An Edna Ferber Short Story Collection

Edna Ferber

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Roast Beef, Medium - The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney - Book 1

Roast Beef, Medium - The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney - Book 1

Edna Ferber

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Emma McChesney & Co. - Book 3

Emma McChesney & Co. - Book 3

Edna Ferber

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Half Portions - An Edna Ferber Short Story Collection

Half Portions - An Edna Ferber Short Story Collection

Edna Ferber

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Cheerful - By Request - An Edna Ferber Short Story Collection

Cheerful - By Request - An Edna Ferber Short Story Collection

Edna Ferber

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So Big - An Edna Ferber Novel

So Big - An Edna Ferber Novel

Edna Ferber

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Gigolo - An Edna Ferber Short Story Collection

Gigolo - An Edna Ferber Short Story Collection

Edna Ferber

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Personality Plus - Some Experiences of Emma McChesney and Her Son, Jock - Book 2

Personality Plus - Some Experiences of Emma McChesney and Her Son, Jock - Book 2

Edna Ferber

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Gigolo - An Edna Ferber Short Story Collection

Gigolo - An Edna Ferber Short Story Collection

Edna Ferber

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The Emma McChesney Collection - Three Volumes in One

The Emma McChesney Collection - Three Volumes in One

Edna Ferber

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Show Boat - An Edna Ferber Novel

Show Boat - An Edna Ferber Novel

Edna Ferber

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Fanny Herself - An Edna Ferber Novel

Fanny Herself - An Edna Ferber Novel

Edna Ferber

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Buttered Side Down - An Edna Ferber Short Story Collection

Buttered Side Down - An Edna Ferber Short Story Collection

Edna Ferber

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Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed - An Edna Ferber Novel

Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed - An Edna Ferber Novel

Edna Ferber

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Show Boat - An Edna Ferber Novel

Show Boat - An Edna Ferber Novel

Edna Ferber

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The Collected Short Stories of Edna Ferber - Including Buttered Side Down, Cheerful - By Request, Half Portions, & Gigolo

The Collected Short Stories of Edna Ferber - Including Buttered Side Down, Cheerful - By Request, Half Portions, & Gigolo

Edna Ferber

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So Big

So Big

Edna Ferber

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So Big

So Big

Edna Ferber

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Show Boat

Show Boat

Edna Ferber

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Dawn O' Hara

Dawn O' Hara

Edna Ferber

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Fanny Herself

Fanny Herself

Edna Ferber

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Dawn O' Hara

Dawn O' Hara

Edna Ferber

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Fanny Herself

Fanny Herself

Edna Ferber

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So Big

So Big

Edna Ferber

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So Big

So Big

Edna Ferber

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So Big

So Big

Edna Ferber

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Show Boat

Show Boat

Edna Ferber

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So Big

So Big

Edna Ferber

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So Big

So Big

Edna Ferber

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So Big

So Big

Edna Ferber

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So Big

So Big

Edna Ferber

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So Big

So Big

Edna Ferber

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So Big

So Big

Edna Ferber

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So Big

So Big

Edna Ferber

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So Big

So Big

Edna Ferber

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So Big

So Big

Edna Ferber

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Giant

Giant

Edna Ferber

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Saratoga Trunk

Saratoga Trunk

Edna Ferber

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So Big

So Big

Edna Ferber

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Giant

Giant

Edna Ferber

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Saratoga Trunk

Saratoga Trunk

Edna Ferber

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