The Efficiency Expert

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Book Overview

This collection of literature attempts to compile many classics that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1518823440
• ISBN13: 9781518823442
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Contemporary America

The Efficiency Expert is a 1921 novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs. One of a small number of Burroughs' novels set in contemporary America as opposed to a fantasy universe. Though written in 1919, it was first published in the October 1921 edition of the All-Story Weekly magazine. (From Source: Wikipedia).

Love and Murder

A contemporary tale of love and murder originally published in the October issues of ALL-STORY WEEKLY, 1921. The Efficiency Expert is one of small number of "modern" tales told in real world terms. (From Source: [...])

Jimmy Torrance

The Efficiency Expert follows the adventures of Jimmy Torrance as he attempts to make a career from himself in 1921 Chicago. The book is remarkable for the criminal livelihoods of the hero's friends. It was also admitted to be a fictionalization of Burroughs' own difficulties in finding a job prior to becoming a best-selling writer. (From Source: Wikipedia).

close to an autobiography...

What makes this charming little tale so unusual is the main character's best friends: a pickpocket studying to be a safe-cracker and a gorgeous little prostitute with a heart of gold. The Efficiency Expert was written in 1919 and is, in many respects, a slightly embellished autobiography of Ed Burroughs' own difficulties in keeping a job during his youth and at look at the various occupations he held before becoming a world-famous fiction author. (From Source:[...])