First published in 1924, So Big is Edna Ferbers Pulitzer Prizewinning novel of endurance, ambition, and the shaping forces of land and labour.The novel follows Selina Peake DeJong, a schoolteacher who marries into the farming community of Illinois Dutch settlements and must confront hardship, widowhood, and economic uncertainty. Determined to preserve dignity and cultivate beauty in unpromising soil, Selina builds a life rooted in perseverance and quiet resilience. Her son, Dirknicknamed "So Big"becomes the measure by which ideals of success, art, and material ambition are tested.Ferber renders agricultural life with clarity and restraint, avoiding sentiment while acknowledging struggle. The landscape is neither romanticised nor diminished it is a shaping force upon character. Beneath the narrative of rural enterprise lies a meditation on valueswhether prosperity alone constitutes achievement, and what is lost when aesthetic and moral sensibility are subordinated to commercial gain.Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1925, So Big remains one of the notable American novels of the early twentieth century, balancing social observation with controlled emotional force. "With all its flaws and crudities it has the completeness, and finality, that grips and exalts and convinces. By virtue of these qualities So Big is a masterpiece." Literary Review"A thoughtful book, clean and strong, dramatic at times, interesting always, clearsighted, sympathetic, a novel to read and...

Binding: Paperback;216 pages; Publisher: Wilder Publications; Classification: N/A; Weight: 444.77 g; Dimensions: N/A

Something not quite right? You have 21 days from the day you receive it, to send something back.

Please note, we cannot offer refunds on fashion face masks, cosmetics, pierced jewellery, adult toys, and swimwear or lingerie if the hygiene seal is not in place or has been broken.

Items of footwear and/or clothing must be unworn and unwashed with the original labels attached. Also, footwear must be tried on indoors. Items of homeware including bedlinen, mattresses, and toppers, and pillows must be unused and in their original unopened packaging. This does not affect your statutory rights.

Click here to view our full Returns Policy.