Cimarron

WINNER OF THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST PICTURE OF 1931

Edna Ferber’s Cimarron is a sweeping epic of love, ambition, and change set against the fevered rush for Oklahoma land in the late nineteenth century. When dashing Yancey and Sabra Cravat set out to stake their claim in the territory before it becomes a state, they find themselves at the heart of a society in the making, brimming with hope, prejudice, opportunity, and loss.

A runaway bestseller on its original release and later adapted into the 1931 Academy Award-winning film, Cimarron captures the restless energy of a country inventing itself and the quiet resolve of a complicated woman unexpectedly finding her voice within it. Ferber’s vigorous and strikingly modern storytelling reveals both the promise and the compromises of the American dream. With a new introduction and an extensive biographical timeline.

“She was among the best-read novelists in the nation, and critics of the 1920s and 1930s did not hesitate to call her the greatest American woman novelist of her day.” —The New York Times