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The Efficiency Expert

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Our hero, Jimmy Torrance, Jr., has a hard time finding suitable employment after a brilliant (athletically, at least) college career, despite all kinds of assistance from his friends in the underworld and the wealthy and sophisticated young woman with whom he falls in love. Set in contemporary America, mostly Chicago, this short novel is one of a handful of Burrough’s works that does not take us to a fantasy or an exotic setting.

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. . .department where his work would be more in keeping with his sex and appearance.

He rather fancied the automobile accessories line, but the buyer was perfectly satisfied with Jimmy’s sales record, and would do nothing to assist in the change. The university heavyweight champion had reached a point where he loathed but one thing more than he did silk hosiery, and that one thing was himself.

CHAPTER VI. HAROLD PLAYS THE RAVEN.

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Mason Compton, president and general manager, sat in his private office in the works of the International Machine Company, chewing upon an unlighted cigar and occasionally running his fingers through his iron-gray hair as he compared and recompared two statements which lay upon the desk before him.

“Damn strange,” he muttered as he touched a button beneath the edge of his desk. A boy entered the room. “Ask Mr. Bince if he will be good enough to step in. . . Read More

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Readers who are used to Tarzan and John Carter will be quite surprised by Jimmy Torrance, the hero of Burroughs's The Efficiency Expert. While Jimmy is, naturally, handsome, clever, and athletic all in one, he lives in contemporary America rather than in the jungles of Africa or the arid plains of M

This was kind of fun, and not at all like most Burroughs' books, such as the Tarzan or War Lord of Mars series. Nope, just a regular book about more-or-less regular people.

So, Jimmy Torrance, Jr. has just graduated from a fancy college in the East, probably some Ivy League school. It's not clear th

From the creator of the Tarzan series, this book has a modern-day hero swinging through the jungles of 1920's Chicago. Jimmy Torrance has just barely graduated from a prestigious university, majoring in football, baseball, and boxing. He thinks he can start out managing a big-time automotive or airp

I’ve read Burroughs’s John Carter stories and wasn’t a big fan, so I didn’t think I would like this either, but I was pleasantly surprised. This was a fun novel to read. It was short, fast-paced, and always filled with intrigue. At first, the protagonist seemed like a bit of an idiot, putting out a

ENGLISH: I thought at first that this would be a very different novel to other yarns by Burroughs, but at the end I found that I was somewhat mistaken.

Jimmy Torrance, the hero, can be considered as another version of Tarzan of the Apes: a strong young man, who knows how to fight, and falls in love w

I didn't know Edgar Rice Burroughs could write like this. It's as if P.G. Wodehouse stepped in to write it, at a slightly less hilarious level than usual. It's a story about a young gentleman who recently graduated from college and is trying to make his industrialist father proud of him by earning h

Anyone that's ever gone to college knows that it doesn't necessarily prepare you for real life. Nobody told that to Jimmy Torrance, and he had to find the out the hard way on the streets of Chicago. Well, now I guess we can say he has a well rounded education.

Meet Jimmy Torrance, star athlete, rever

In this Burroughs the only alien & fantastic characters are from Chicago

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This is a fun little book with a completely different setting than those usually associated with Burroughs. No jungle, alien planet or los

Author tries to show us that university degree does not count in the world where practicality is appreciated. Expectation of young people coming from school are very high and nobody wants to start their life from very bottom. Through mishaps and many different jobs main character of story still gets

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