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Show Boat

Edna Ferber

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Sinopsis

Show Boat is a 1926 novel byEdna Ferber. It chronicles the lives of three generations of performers on the Cotton Blossom, a floating theater on a steamboat that travels between small towns along the banks of the Mississippi River, from the 1880s to the 1920s. The story moves from the Reconstruction Era riverboat to Gilded Age Chicago to Roaring Twenties New York, and finally returns to the Mississippi River.
Disponible desde: 25/01/2022.
Longitud de impresión: 270 páginas.

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