The basis for the classic film starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman, Saratoga Trunk is Pulitzer Prize–winning author Edna Ferber’s enthralling saga of love, greed, and power set in New Orleans and Saratoga during the late nineteenth century.

Saratoga Trunk unfolds the story of Clio Dulaine, an ambitious Creole beauty who more than meets her match in Clint Maroon, a handsome Texan with a head for business—and an eye for beautiful women. As different as they are, they share a common trait: they’re both looking to settle a score. Together they do battle with Southern gentry and Eastern society but in their obsession to acquire all they’ve ever wanted, they fail to realize they already have all they’ll ever need—each other.

A novel by one of the twentieth century’s most accomplished and admired writers, Saratoga Trunk is a lively tale of ambition and love that celebrates the triumph of outsiders against the powerful and corrupt.

“The greatest American woman novelist of her day.”