Fanny Herself [NOOK Book]

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Overview

It has become the fashion among novelists to introduce their hero in knee pants, their heroine in pinafore and pigtails. Time was when we were rushed up to a stalwart young man of twenty-four, who was presented as the pivot about whom the plot would revolve. Now we are led, protesting, up to a grubby urchin of five and are invited to watch him through twenty years of intimate minutiae. In extreme cases we have been obliged to witness his evolution from swaddling clothes to dresses, from dresses to shorts (he is so often English), from shorts to Etons
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Overview

It has become the fashion among novelists to introduce their hero in knee pants, their heroine in pinafore and pigtails. Time was when we were rushed up to a stalwart young man of twenty-four, who was presented as the pivot about whom the plot would revolve. Now we are led, protesting, up to a grubby urchin of five and are invited to watch him through twenty years of intimate minutiae. In extreme cases we have been obliged to witness his evolution from swaddling clothes to dresses, from dresses to shorts (he is so often English), from shorts to Etons

Editorial Reviews

Joe Stafford
The most autobiographical novel by the author of "Giant," this roman Å clef is informed by the antisemitism Ferber encountered as a child in Iowa before World War I.
Austin American-Statesman
Library Journal
Published in 1917 and 1913, respectively, these books represent early steps in Ferber's journey to her 1924 Pulitzer Prize. Fanny is the semiautobiographical story of a Jewish girl growing up in the Midwest. Roast Beef is the chronicle of Emma McChesney, a divorced mother and traveling sales rep for T.A. Buck's Featherloom Skirts and Petticoats. Both titles feature vintage illustrations and scholarly introductions. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781412162432
  • Publisher: eBooksLib
  • Publication date: 4/21/2010
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 768,952
  • File size: 311 KB

Table of Contents

Introduction
Foreword
I Roast Beef, Medium 1
II Rrepresenting T.A. Buck 28
III Chickens 50
IV His Mother's Son 78
V Pink Tights and Ginghams 107
VI Simply Skirts 137
VII Underneath the High-Cut Vest 166
VIII Catching Up With Christmas 196
IX Knee-Deep in Knickers 230
X In the Absence of the Agent 263

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 12, 2012

    Too many errors

    You have no idea who the characters even are with the amount of typo's. I couldn't get past the first two pages. I don't have the patience to determine what the story is even relating. Several sentences were jumbled with symbols. I would have just read a photocopied page than one that was so messed up.

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