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    A Study Guide for Edna Ferber's "Cimarron"
    A Study Guide for Edna Ferber's "Cimarron"
    A Study Guide for Edna Ferber's "Cimarron"
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    A Study Guide for Edna Ferber's "Cimarron"

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    A Study Guide for Edna Ferber's "Cimarron," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJun 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535820820
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      A Study Guide for Edna Ferber's "Cimarron" - Gale

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      Cimarron

      Edna Ferber

      1930

      Introduction

      Cimarron, a novel with a western setting by Edna Ferber, was published in 1930. Like many of Ferber's novels, it was very popular and was made into a Hollywood film, one year after publication. The well-researched novel is set in Oklahoma and covers the period from 1889 through the 1920s. The two main characters, Yancey and Sabra Cravat, move from Wichita, Kansas, to Oklahoma a short while after the land run in 1889, when vast amounts of uninhabited land are there for the taking and free of charge. Small towns spring up overnight, and Yancey and Sabra settle in the fictional town of Osage, which is modeled on Guthrie, Oklahoma, in the north-central part of the state. Yancey starts a newspaper in Osage, and the story shows how the rough-and-ready town grows to maturity. The tale extends all the way to the discovery of oil in the new state and the resulting oil boom of the early twentieth century. Apart from being an entertaining story about the origin and early development of Oklahoma, Cimarron tackles important social and political issues of the time, including the treatment of Native Americans.

      Author Biography

      One of the most popular of twentieth-century female novelists, Edna Ferber was born on August 15, 1885, in Kalamazoo, Michigan, to Jacob Charles and Julia Neumann Ferber. Her father was a Jewish immigrant from Hungary; her mother was a second-generation German Jew. Ferber grew up in Appleton, Wisconsin, where she graduated from high school and then became a reporter for the Appleton Daily Crescent and later, in Milwaukee, for the Milwaukee Journal. Returning to Appleton to live again with her family, she began her career as a novelist with the publication of Dawn O'Hara: The Girl Who Laughed (1911), based on her experiences as a journalist in Milwaukee. She quickly followed this with two collections of short stories, Buttered Side Down (1912) and Roast Beef Medium (1913), and several novels within five years, including Fanny Herself (1917), The Girls (1921), and Gigolo (1922).

      In 1924, Ferber scored a big success with her novel So Big, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925. The novel is set in the Dutch community of a Chicago suburb. This success propelled Ferber to a highly productive decade. Show Boat followed in 1926. The novel is about a floating theater that travels up and down the Mississippi River, from the 1880s to the 1920s, putting on shows for small towns. A collection of short stories, Mother Knows Best (1927), and the novel Cimarron (1930) soon followed. Ferber's novels were not only best sellers, but many of them were also

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