Project Gutenberg 2025-02-10 Public domain in the USA. 399 Ferber, Edna 1885 1968 The girls $aUnited States :$bDoubleday, Page & Company, $c1921. Emmanuel Ackerman, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The Girls" by Edna Ferber is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story revolves around the lives of three women in the Thrift family—great-aunt Charlotte, her niece Lottie, and Lottie's grand-niece, Charley. The narrative establishes their individual personalities and familial relationships, highlighting themes related to gender roles, individuality, and societal expectations of women during that era. The beginning of "The Girls" introduces the three protagonists in a thoughtful and engaging way. We meet the elderly Charlotte, who embodies traditional values, and her vibrant, younger relative Lottie, who struggles with societal norms and yearns for a more adventurous life. Also present is Charley, a progressive teenager who challenges conventions with her modern worldview. The opening chapters delve into their daily lives, personal struggles, and the contrast between generations, setting the stage for a story about identity, rebellion, and the quest for fulfillment within the constraints of early 20th-century society. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/girls0000ferb/ 20210505042158ferber 1921 us Reading ease score: 85.1 (6th grade). Easy to read. en World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction Women -- Fiction Families -- Fiction PS Text Category: Novels Category: American Literature 507565 2025-07-29T16:09:07.139423 text/html 482631 2025-02-10T09:14:35 text/html 450722 2025-07-29T16:09:13.693368 application/epub+zip 450275 2025-07-29T16:09:08.459411 application/epub+zip 325920 2025-07-29T16:09:07.727403 application/epub+zip 651482 2025-07-29T16:09:18.358358 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 626713 2025-07-29T16:09:13.198351 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 483816 2025-07-29T16:09:06.075395 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 463962 2025-02-10T09:14:35 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16262 2025-07-29T16:09:18.544327 application/rdf+xml 13714 2025-07-29T16:09:08.031393 image/jpeg 2369 2025-07-29T16:09:07.883379 image/jpeg 706256 2025-07-29T16:09:07.193429 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia