George Horace Lorimer (1867–1937)
Autor de Cartas de un comerciante hecho a sí mismo a su hijo; Graham el basilisco
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: By published by L C Page and company Boston 1903 - little pilgrimages, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11940068
Series
Obras de George Horace Lorimer
Thoughts Worthwhile 1 copia
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1867-10-06
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1937-10-22
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Louisville, Kentucky, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Wyncote, Pennsylvania, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Wyncote, Pennsylvania, USA - Educación
- Moseley High School, Chicago, USA
Colby College
Yale University - Ocupaciones
- meatpacker
newspaper reporter
editor (Saturday Evening Post)
editor (Ladies' Home Journal)
author - Organizaciones
- Saturday Evening Post (editor)
Ladies' Home Journal (editor)
Curtis Publishing Company (president)
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 9
- También por
- 2
- Miembros
- 251
- Popularidad
- #91,086
- Valoración
- 3.5
- Reseñas
- 4
- ISBNs
- 52
- Idiomas
- 2
For instance: In the last letter of the book, he is responding to his son's announcement that his wife has had a baby boy. Old Gorgon Graham spends one page (smallish pages, lots of borders and white space with a biggish font) saying how happy he is for himself to be a grandparent. The next sixteen pages admonishing about how to raise the boy to be a sound businessman and what is wrong with the business world of "today" (1900), and why he fears that his heirs will never be as fine a man as he himself is.
I can imagine the groans of his son every time he had to open another letter from his father. I still enjoyed the book enough to finish reading it. There is amusement in the examples given, and some quite sound advice, if anyone ever listens to advice.… (más)