Edna Ferber — a newspaper reporter at seventeen, a Pulitzer winner for So Big, and the author whose novels became Show Boat, Cimarron, and Giant — gathered here the short stories she most wanted kept. A manicurist, a traveling saleswoman, a Jewish mother in Chicago, a girl who refuses the man everyone has chosen for her: the working women of America were her real subject all along. This edition presents the complete and unabridged collection, newly typeset and illustrated with 30 full-page color plates.