Edna Ferber

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Books by Edna Ferber

So Big on Pride and Prejudice: “It was after reading “Pride and Prejudice” that she decided to be the Jane Austen of her time.”
So Big on Ivanhoe: “Roelf, I have a book called ‘Ivanhoe.’ Would you like to read it?”
So Big on The Three Musketeers: “And there’s another called ‘The Three Musketeers’.”
So Big on David Copperfield: “as a similar group had stared at David Copperfield when he was innocent of having bolted the huge dinner ordered in the inn on his way to London.”
So Big on Little Women: “I was going to be like Jo in Louisa Alcott’s book.”
So Big on Rip Van Winkle: “those gnarled and bearded bowlers so mysteriously encountered by Rip Van Winkle on that fatal day in the Kaatskills.”
So Big on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: “The deserting schoolmaster had been a second Ichabod Crane... a modern Mynheer Van Tassel, pipe, chuckle, and all.”
So Big on Idylls of the King: “the fragrant lines, “Elaine the fair, Elaine the lovable, the lily maid of Astolat.””
So Big on The Old Curiosity Shop: “a sort of mixture of Dick Swiveller’s Marchioness and Sarah Crewe.”
So Big on A Little Princess: “a sort of mixture of Dick Swiveller’s Marchioness and Sarah Crewe.”