Letters and More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son. E-book. Formato EPUB George Horace Lorimer   -  Enhanced Media Publishing, 2017  - 

Letters and More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son presents George Horace Lorimer’s famous Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son and its lesser known but equally hilarious sequel, More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son.With his unique dry wit, Lorimer lampoons the attitudes of the newly moneyed classes of the Gilded Age – characters straight out of The Great Gatsby – in a series of fictional exchanges between John ‘Old Gorgon’ Graham, a prosperous pork-packer in Chicago, and his son, Pierrepont, whom he ‘affectionately’ calls ‘Piggy.’The letters of Book 1 (Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son) are from a father to a son in college (Harvard) but in the sequel (More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son) Pierrepont has graduated and is writing to his pa to see if there is any work for him in the family business. The Old Gorgon is reluctant but thinks there might be an opportunity for Piggy in the lard department…

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son . E-book. Formato EPUB George Horace Lorimer   -  Enhanced Media Publishing, 2016  - 

Out now: More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son - the sequel.George Horace Lorimer's satirical Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son is a timeless collection of tongue-in-cheek Gilded Age aphorisms from a fictitious rich man - a prosperous pork-packer in Chicago - to his son, Pierrepont, whom he 'affectionately' calls 'Piggy.' The writing is subtle and brilliant.  

More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son . E-book. Formato EPUB George Horace Lorimer   -  Enhanced Media Publishing, 2017  - 

George Horace Lorimer’s More Letters From A Self-Made Merchant To His Son is a sequel to his widely popular Letters From A Self-Made Merchant To His Son, and offers fourteen more hilarious letters from Old Gorgon Graham, a prosperous pork-packer in Chicago, to his son, Pierrepont, whom he ‘affectionately’ calls ‘Piggy.’George Horace Lorimer was an American journalist and author best known as the editor of The Saturday Evening Post. During his editorial reign, the Post rose from a circulation of several thousand to over a million. He is credited with promoting or discovering a large number of American writers like Jack London.