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Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford

Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford

Chester, George Randolph

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HumorClassic FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1596056037
ISBN13: 9781596056039
Publisher: Cosimo Inc
Published: Dec 1 2005
Pages: 460
Weight: 1.09
Height: 1.02 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
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 Wallingford Part 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.

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