Show Boat (novel)

Show Boat (novel)

Infobox Book
name = Show Boat


image_caption =
author = Edna Ferber
illustrator =
cover_artist =
country = United States
language = English
subject =
genre = Novel
publisher = Grosset & Dunlap
release_date = 1926
media_type = Print (Hardcover)
pages = 341 pp
oclc = ISBN 0237149510

"Show Boat" is a 1926 novel by American author, playwright, and dramatist, Edna Ferber. The novel served as the basis for the Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II Broadway musical, and films of the same title.

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