Ferber’s first collection, from 1912, looks past the fairy-tale ending at the working people of Chicago and the small towns of the Midwest. Stenographers, shopgirls, salesmen, waitresses and a bush-league ball player appear in stories such as ‘The Frog and the Puddle’, ‘What She Wore’, ‘The Kitchen Side of the Door’ and ‘One of the Old Girls’, all of them people just getting by.
Sharp, sympathetic stories from the future Pulitzer winner of So Big and author of Show Boat. Download the free EPUB.