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GET-RICH-QUICK WALLINGFORD IBD

GEORGE RANDOLPH CHESTER
COSIMO CLASSICS
12 / 2005
9781596056039
Inglés

Sinopsis

The arrival of Mrs. Wallingford set upon a much higher plane her husband?s already well-established reputation as a capitalist of illimitable resources... 'She is a stunner,' [Doctor Feldmeyer] declared, with the faintest suggestion of a smirk, 'and carries herself like a queen. She wears a fur coat that cost not less than six or seven hundred dollars, and not a woman in this town has such diamonds...'-from Get-Rich-Quick WallingfordPart of Chester?s popular fictional series about a scheming industrialist, this satirical novel, 'a cheerful account of the rise and fall of an American Business Buccaneer,' relates the business crimes and misdemeanors of J. Rufus Wallingford, who inhabits a world wherein a good stomach for strong drink is worth thousands of dollars, philanthropy and profit are intimately intertwined, and preying upon widows and orphans is all in a day?s work. First published in 1908, this wickedly funny work is just as pointed today as it was a century ago.American journalist and novelist GEORGE RANDOLPH CHESTER (1869-1924) was a regular contributor to Collier?s and Everybody?s Magazine. He is also the author of Five Thousand an Hour: How Johnny Gamble Won the Heiress and The Early Bird: A Business Man?s Love Story.