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"You're too darned charming." That's what the "Old Man" told Jock McChesney, and that's why Jock went home and forgot to turn on the lights. "Personality Plus," by Edna Ferber, was the first of a new series of Business Stories by Edna Ferber. Jock McChesney, son of Emma McChesney... Read Full Overview

Personality Plus: Some Experiences Of Emma McChesney And Her Son, Jock is a novel written by Edna Ferber, first published in 1914. The book follows the story of Emma McChesney, a successful traveling saleswoman who sells petticoats, and her son Jock. The novel is set in the early... Read Full Overview

The second book in the Emma McChesney series.We are happy to announce this classic book. Many of the books in our collection have not been published for decades and are therefore not broadly available to the readers. Our goal is to access the very large literary repository of... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

Edna Ferber, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Show Boat and Giant, achieved her first great success with a series of stories featuring Emma McChesney: a smart, stylish, divorced mother who in a mere twelve years rose from stenographer to traveling sales representative... Read Full Overview

Personality Plus: Some Experiences Of Emma McChesney And Her Son, Jock is a novel by Edna Ferber, published in 1914. The book follows the story of Emma McChesney, a successful traveling saleswoman for the T.A. Buck Featherloom Petticoat Company, and her teenage son Jock. Emma... Read Full Overview

The second book in the Emma McChesney series.

This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete... Read Full Overview