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    So Big - Unabridged
    So Big - Unabridged
    So Big - Unabridged
    Audiobook10 hours

    So Big - Unabridged

    Written by Edna Ferber

    Narrated by Sara Nichols

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    "So Big" is author Edna Ferber's breakout, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of life on an American farm and features one of the most iconic characters in 20th century fiction, the hardscrabble schoolteacher-turned-truck-farmer Selina Peake DeJong.

    A sensation when it was first published, "So Big" tells the story of young Selina, who moves to the tiny farming town of High Prairie to become a schoolteacher and winds up marrying local farmer, Purvis DeJong. After Purvis dies, leaving Selina in charge of both the farm and her young son Dirk, Selina is forced to run the farm all by herself and do all she can to pave the way for Dirk to become a success. Apart from the compelling, heart-wrenching and inspiring tale of life on a 19th century farm, "So Big" also offers a fascinating glimpse of industrial-era Chicago, from the burgeoning Gold Coast to the rough-and-tumble Haymarket.

    "So Big" is an early triumph of Edna Ferber's, who would later go on to write dozens of books, plays and short stories and become one of the 20th century's most beloved and successful authors.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSoundCraft Audiobooks
    Release dateAug 26, 2023
    ISBN9798823478830
    Author

    Edna Ferber

    "A closed mind is a dying mind.""Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing - for life itself is a writer's love until death.""But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that."- Edna Ferber

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