Personality Plus by Edna Ferber ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

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12/21/22

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171m

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Personality Plus by Edna Ferber audiobook.

Genre: drama

Set in bustling early 1900s New York, Personality Plus follows Emma McChesney, a stylish, sharp-witted divorced mother who has fought her way up from life on the road to a coveted seat in the office as partner in the T. A. Buck Featherloom Petticoat Company. With a real home at last and a new level of responsibility, Emma expects challenges - but not necessarily from the person she loves most. Her son, Jock, is twenty-one and determined to conquer the advertising world on his own terms, armed with confidence, charm, and a hunger to prove that modern hustle beats old-school know-how. As Jock dazzles coworkers and courts big accounts, his gift for selling can slide into showmanship, bending rules and bruising egos. When business pressures mount and a high-stakes campaign pulls mother and son into the same orbit, Emma must defend the value of experience, ethics, and steady judgment - even as she confronts her own doubts about what success should look like. With brisk dialogue, humor, and social insight, Ferber delivers a lively clash of ambition and integrity, and a portrait of a woman refusing to be sidelined in either boardroom or family.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:31:07) Chapter 2

(01:01:58) Chapter 3

(01:33:07) Chapter 4

(02:11:54) Chapter 5

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One Basket by Edna Ferber ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

December 21, 2022

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314m

One Basket by Edna Ferber audiobook.

Genre: drama

One Basket gathers Edna Ferber's most memorable short fiction into a single, wide-ranging portrait of American life, chosen and introduced by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author herself. Spanning decades and shifting from small-town streets to city apartments, from cramped kitchens to prosperous parlors, these stories follow people caught between what they want and what their communities will allow. Women stand at the center: a notorious beauty trying to live down a past in The Woman Who Tried to Be Good, wives and husbands learning that love can be both tenderness and negotiation, and mothers confronting the quiet power and pressure of family bonds. Ferber writes with a reporter's eye for telling detail and a dramatist's instinct for dialogue, revealing how class, reputation, ambition, and longing shape ordinary choices. Some tales are wryly comic, others sharp-edged and moving, but each turns on the same question: what does it cost to become the person you claim to be? With brief author prefaces that illuminate her craft and themes, One Basket is both an inviting introduction and a rich retrospective of Ferber's storytelling range.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:28:25) Chapter 2

(01:20:00) Chapter 3

(02:16:08) Chapter 4

(03:13:21) Chapter 5

(04:09:46) Chapter 6

(04:22:01) Chapter 7

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Roast Beef, Medium by Edna Ferber ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

December 21, 2022

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298m

Roast Beef, Medium by Edna Ferber audiobook.

Genre: drama

This book follows the adventures of Emma McChesney, a smart and savvy divorced mother who travels the Midwest as a sales representative for a large skirt and petticoat manufacturer. Her many adventures with people, (including predatory salesmen and hotel clerks), are funny and poignant. She is hardworking and able to outsell the slickest of the men salesmen. She has learned to focus on her work and her seventeen-year-old son, Jock. Experience has taught her that it is usually best to stick to roast beef, medium and not get stomach ache with fancy sauces and exotic dishes. This is the first of three volumes following the career and adventures of Emma McChesney.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:02:57) Chapter 01

(00:26:56) Chapter 02

(00:52:09) Chapter 03

(01:16:53) Chapter 04

(01:43:30) Chapter 05

(02:11:55) Chapter 06

(02:38:35) Chapter 07

(03:05:36) Chapter 08

(03:38:27) Chapter 09