# Show Boat

Author: Ferber, Edna, 1885-1968

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67123

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Show+Boat+Ferber&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

“Show Boat” is neither history nor biography, but fiction. This statement is made in the hope that it will forestall such protest as may be registered by demon statisticians against certain liberties taken with characters, places, and events. In the Chicago portion of the book, for example, a character occasionally appears some three or four years after the actual date of his death. Now and then a restaurant or gambling resort is described as running full blast at a time when it had vanished at the frown of civic virtue. This, then, was done, not through negligence in research, but because, in the attempt to give a picture of the time, it was necessary slightly to condense a period of fif...

## Chapters

- [Part 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/show-boat-67123/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Part 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/show-boat-67123/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Part 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/show-boat-67123/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/show-boat-67123/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/show-boat-67123/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/show-boat-67123/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/show-boat-67123/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/show-boat-67123/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/show-boat-67123/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/show-boat-67123/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/show-boat-67123/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/show-boat-67123/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/show-boat-67123/chapters/25/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/show-boat-67123/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/show-boat-67123/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/show-boat-67123/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/show-boat-67123/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/show-boat-67123/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/show-boat-67123/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/show-boat-67123/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/show-boat-67123/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/show-boat-67123/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/show-boat-67123/chapters/24/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/show-boat-67123/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/show-boat-67123/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/show-boat-67123/chapters/26/index.md)