Books with author George Randolph Chester

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"A characteristically amusing account of the teaching of high finance to a Frenchman." -American Industries "One of our most prolific writers....The book is good fun, and is written in the author's popular style....One of the most wholesome and vigorous of this popular writer's ingenious novels." -National Magazine "It gives a history of the spectacular rise and final fall of an unscrupulous promoter, picturing the methods of this class to the very life. The man makes hundreds of thousands, then loses all. The character of Mrs. Wallingford is, however, as lovable as Mr. Wallingford's is repulsive. The book is by George Randolph Chester and is a profound study of present day promotion methods." -The American Stationer "We find the well-known 'Young Wallingford' now grown from his early pinkness and plumpness into the more pronounced solferino and avoirdupois that come of easy living. Wallingford is already known to many novel readers and theatergoers as the human symbol that stands for the gay manipulation of crooked business deals. He is the type of social cormorant from whose make-up conscience seems to have been accidentally omitted. He is the type of that new brand of sinner classified by Professor Edward Ross as the criminaloid, that twentieth-century malefactor whose vices have not, like till-tapping and horse-stealing, become sufficiently institutionalized to be fought by commandment, code, and prison-cell. "Wallingford (and he has many brothers in real life) plunders in such a pleasant manner, and his thronging dupes are so eager to be parted from their stocking-end and safety-deposit hoards, that one cannot be too much depressed at seeing the biters well nipped, albeit by a knave whose winning ways make him the very knave of hearts. "Mr. Chester's stories merge into farce and fun; but they have grim truth under the ribs of them. As 'a jest oft reaches him who would a sermon fly,' the light, laughter-laden chronicles of 'Get Rich-Quick Wallingford,' now running in the Cosmopolitan, ought to carry to thousands a warning against the bucket-shoppers and land-sharks and other alert fakirs who make a fat living off the gaping and the gullible." -Cosmopolitan

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