FIRST VINTAGE MOVIE CLASSICS EDITION, MARCH 2014
Copyright © 1930 by Edna Ferber, renewed 1957 by Edna Ferber
Foreword copyright © 2014 by Julie Gilbert
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC, New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, Penguin Random House companies. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Random House LLC, New York, in 1930.
Vintage is a registered trademark and Vintage Movie Classics and colophon are trademarks of Random House LLC.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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Vintage Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-0-345-80575-1
eBook ISBN: 978-0-345-80576-8
Cover design: Evan Gaffney Design
Cover photograph by Jochem Wijnands © akg / Horizons
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