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Title: Saratoga Trunk (Perennial Classics) by Edna Ferber, Stuart M. Rosen ISBN: 0-06-095671-2 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Love and Revenge Story
Comment: Ferber tales the story of Clio Dulaine -- an illegitimate French girl who comes to New Orleans after residing in Paris for most of her life. The story is set in the mid 1800's. Clio and her entourage include: Kaka, a voodoo-like nurse maid and her colorful friend Cupide -- a dwarf. Clio's ultimately goal is to reveal to her upper class blood grandparents who she is and blackmail them.
Clio is successful at this but while scheming she falls in love with Clint Maroon -- a flamboyant cowboy from the rough country Texas. They clash with each other, but ultimately there is a bond. When the scheme with Clio's grandparents forces them to move on they decide to go to Saratoga, New York. Saratoga, at this period of time, was a vacation resort area where many rich people spent their time. Clio schemes for more money by chumming up with the plentiful, wealthy bachelors. However, her bond and feelings for Clint causes problems.
This story was interesting in the fact that it reveals what it must have been like to live in New Orleans at this period of time. In addition, Ferber paints a luxurious picture of the resort-like community of Saratoga. Clint is quite a character and the two of them complement one another (Clio reminded me of Scarlett O'Hara in many ways). While Clio was a hard one to like, the book does keep one interested. I felt Ferber's main point was that there may have been armed robberies and anarchy in the west at that period of time, but the east had its share of crime. Graft, economic warfare (even leading to violence), and greed nearly ruined the country. Overall, another interesting book that teaches something about the American social aspects of living in the middle/late 1800's.
Rating: 4
Summary: Revenge, Money and love.
Comment: This a tale of Clio Dulaine, a young woman who see's her mistress mother become an "ugly, broken hearted woman" by her father's wife. She goes to her old home town of New Orleans by seeking revenge for her mother's unhappiness and by ruining her dead father's wife's life by re-hashing the family scandal. While in New Orleans she meets a handsome Texan Cowboy, Clint Maroon. They have a stormy affair but she won't commit to him because she want's respectablity, comfort and money, something her mother did not have. Clint and Clio then go to Saratoga and meet Bart Van Steed, a millionaire, who owns railroads. She woo's Bart but all the time thinking of Clint. In the end Bart asks her to marry him but she sacrafices money and comfort to be with Clint.
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Title: Giant (Perennial Classics) by Edna Ferber, Stuart M. Rosen ISBN: 0060956704 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: So Big (Perennial Classics) by Edna Ferber ISBN: 0060956690 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Cimarron by E. Ferber ISBN: 0449229491 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: April, 1976 List Price(USD): $1.75 |
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Title:Saratoga Trunk ASIN: 6304056915 Publisher: Warner Studios Pub. Date: 25 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $19.99 |
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Title: Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney by Edna Ferber, Lawrence R. Rodgers, James Montgomery Flagg ISBN: 0252069455 Publisher: University of Illinois Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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