Calumet 'k' - Couverture souple

Merwin, Samuel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1483701018 ISBN 13 : 9781483701011

Editeur : Spastic Cat Press, 2013

Synopsis

Calumet "K" is simply light fiction telling the story of how Charlie Bannon attempts to construct a Chicago grain elevator in the face of a series of hurdles that threaten to scuttle the project. Bannon is a superbly competent man and the manner in which he faces challenges during the construction is admirable. He is a man who can get things done and a man who loves his work. "A story which points every young man in business life to one of the greatest highways to success." Ayn Rand's

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Henry Kitchell Webster (September 7, 1875 – December 8, 1932) was an American author who lived in Evanston, Illinois. He wrote novels and short stories on themes ranging from mystery to family drama to science fiction. He first achieved moderate recognition in 1899 when he co-wrote The Short Line War with fellow Illinois author Samuel Merwin, with whom he later collaborated to write one of his more famous works, Calumet "K" (1901). Calumet "K", which The Chicago Daily Tribune called "a vivifying romance of business," has maintained a modest level of popularity due to its status as Ayn Rand's favorite novel, a source of inspiration for her Objectivist philosophy. "A novel, with several elements of rather unusual interest. As a tale, it is swift, simple, and absorbing, and one does not willingly put it down until it is finished. It has to do with grain-elevator business, with railways, strikes, and commercial and financial matters generally, woven skilfully into a human story of love." --The Commercial Advertiser" 'Calumet "K"' is a novel that is exciting and absorbing, but not the least bit sensational. It is the story of a rush.... The book is an unusually good story; one that shows the inner workings of the labor union, and portrays men who are the bone and sinew of the earth."--The Toledo Blade. "The heroine in this case is the hero's stenographer; but the action of the story grows out of the attempt of rival capitalists and grain men to balk the building of a grain elevator by a set date."

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Spastic Cat Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1483701018
• ISBN 13: 9781483701011
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 166
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible