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A review by sjgrodsky
So Big by Edna Ferber
5.0
Wonderful story, wonderfully told, marred only by the typographical errors and dropped words that a spell checker ignored but a human proofreader should have caught. Shame on the publisher for having skipped this step.
Oh, and one oddity: the hired man is first called “Jan Steen,” then, later “Jan Snip.” I wonder if this error was in the manuscript Ferber submitted. This book was first published in 1924. In the intervening 95 years, it has been read hundreds of thousands of times. How come no one else noticed this error and corrected it?
Oh, and one oddity: the hired man is first called “Jan Steen,” then, later “Jan Snip.” I wonder if this error was in the manuscript Ferber submitted. This book was first published in 1924. In the intervening 95 years, it has been read hundreds of thousands of times. How come no one else noticed this error and corrected it?