Show Boat eBook

The novel that inspired the Broadway classic—a saga of romance, revenge, and a riverboat theater troupe: "First-rate storytelling . . . irresistible." —The New York Times Book Review

Spanning four decades and three generations, and journeying from the post-Civil War South to Chicago to New York, Show Boat has been adapted for radio, stage, and screen, becoming a landmark of American culture.

The bestseller by Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Ferber follows a cast of characters who live and work aboard a riverboat, traveling in order to perform for audiences along the banks of the Mississippi. It is a story of adventure, drama, destructive passions, racial conflict, and romantic entanglements, set amid the changing times of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.