A refined young woman becomes a widowed truck farmer near Chicago and pins her hopes on her son, in Ferber's Pulitzer-winning novel.
Books mentioned in So Big (12)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: “It was after reading “Pride and Prejudice” that she decided to be the Jane Austen of her time.”
Ivanhoe by Walter Scott: “Roelf, I have a book called ‘Ivanhoe.’ Would you like to read it?”
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: “And there’s another called ‘The Three Musketeers’.”
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens: “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.”
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: “I was going to be like Jo in Louisa Alcott’s book.”
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving: “those gnarled and bearded bowlers so mysteriously encountered by Rip Van Winkle on that fatal day in the Kaatskills.”
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving: “The deserting schoolmaster had been a second Ichabod Crane... a modern Mynheer Van Tassel, pipe, chuckle, and all.”
Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson: “the fragrant lines, “Elaine the fair, Elaine the lovable, the lily maid of Astolat.””
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens: “a sort of mixture of Dick Swiveller’s Marchioness and Sarah Crewe.”
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett: “a sort of mixture of Dick Swiveller’s Marchioness and Sarah Crewe.”
Samuel of Posen by George H. Jessop: “She witnessed that startling innovation, a Jewish play, called Samuel of Posen.”
Pique by Augustin Daly: “She saw Fanny Davenport in Pique.”