George Horace Lorimer (1867–1937)
Auteur de Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: By published by L C Page and company Boston 1903 - little pilgrimages, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11940068
Séries
Œuvres de George Horace Lorimer
Thoughts Worthwhile 1 exemplaire
The Saturday Evening Post August 18, 1906 1 exemplaire
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- Date de naissance
- 1867-10-06
- Date de décès
- 1937-10-22
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Louisville, Kentucky, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Wyncote, Pennsylvania, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Wyncote, Pennsylvania, USA - Études
- Moseley High School, Chicago, USA
Colby College
Yale University - Professions
- meatpacker
newspaper reporter
editor (Saturday Evening Post)
editor (Ladies' Home Journal)
author - Organisations
- Saturday Evening Post (editor)
Ladies' Home Journal (editor)
Curtis Publishing Company (president)
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Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 9
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 250
- Popularité
- #91,401
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 52
- Langues
- 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.… (plus d'informations)