"So Big" by Edna Ferber is a story set in the early 1900s, chronicling the life of Selina DeJong as she adapts to a very different life on an Illinois truck farm, far removed from her early life with a gambler father. The story explores a young woman’s dreams, her day-to-day life, and her personal evolution within a close-knit Dutch immigrant community, highlighting her challenges and hopes as she transitions from a schoolteacher to a farmer. We learn about her childhood in Chicago, how she got the nickname "So Big," and her eventual journey to rural Illinois, contrasting her initial dreams with the stark realities while exploring themes of ambition, personal identity, and the hardships of being a woman in a challenging rural environment.
So Big
By Edna Ferber
A young woman leaves behind a life of gambling and uncertainty to find her way amid the farmers of rural Illinois, where her ambitions clash against hard work and life.
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About the AuthorEdna Ferber was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels include the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big (1924), Show Boat, Cimarron, Giant and Ice Palace (1958), which also received a film adaptation in 1960. She helped adapt her short story "Old Man Minick", published in 1922, into a play (Minick) and it was thrice adapted to film, in 1925 as the silent film Welcome Home, in 1932 as The Expert, and in 1939 as No Place to Go.
Edna Ferber was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels include the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big (1924), Show Boat, Cimarron, Giant and Ice Palace (1958), which also received a film adaptation in 1960. She helped adapt her short story "Old Man Minick", published in 1922, into a play (Minick) and it was thrice adapted to film, in 1925 as the silent film Welcome Home, in 1932 as The Expert, and in 1939 as No Place to Go.
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