Project Gutenberg 2004-07-01 Public domain in the USA. 249 Ferber, Edna 1885 1968 Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney Reading ease score: 83.7 (6th grade). Easy to read. Roast beef, medium -- Representing T. A. Buck -- Chickens -- His mother's son -- Pink tights and ginghams -- Simply skirts -- Underneath the high-cut vest -- Catching up with Christmas -- Knee-deep in knickers -- In the absence of the agent. Text file produced by Carel Lyn Miske, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team HTML file produced by David Widger "Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney" by Edna Ferber is a novel written during the early 20th century. The story revolves around Emma McChesney, a strong and independent traveling saleswoman for T. A. Buck's Featherloom Petticoats, who navigates the challenges of her profession with wit and tenacity while also reflecting on her personal life and maternal instincts. At the start of the book, we are introduced to Emma as she enjoys a solitary dinner in a small-town hotel, contemplating her work and the competitive nature of the retail industry. She reflects on her experiences as a traveling saleswoman, highlighted by her encounter with a handsome, young man, who is new to the business. The interaction leads Emma to impart some hard-earned wisdom about the realities of their jobs, while also wrestling with her reminiscences of home and motherhood. This opening sets the stage for a mix of humor and serious introspection as Emma balances her professional ambitions with her role as a mother to her teenage son, Jock. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Mothers and sons -- Fiction McChesney, Emma (Fictitious character) -- Fiction Traveling sales personnel -- Fiction Women sales personnel -- Fiction Businesswomen -- Fiction Adventure stories, American PS Text Browsing: Business/Management Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 343481 343482 2024-10-03T07:27:24.172000 2023-10-03T07:06:32.735015 text/html text/html 354910 2021-01-28T09:40:18 text/html; charset=utf-8 120391 2021-01-28T09:40:18 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 220798 2024-10-03T07:27:32.952926 application/epub+zip 225343 2024-10-03T07:27:28.237965 application/epub+zip 192943 2024-10-03T07:27:26.800956 application/epub+zip 509241 2024-10-03T07:27:36.397925 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 488060 2024-10-03T07:27:31.994936 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 321183 2022-09-03T09:48:12.541120 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 289853 289709 2024-10-03T07:27:23.439996 2023-10-03T07:06:31.920037 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 293934 2018-03-15T08:44:32 text/plain; charset=utf-8 114286 2018-03-16T14:21:08 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 289463 2013-07-03T07:52:14 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 113777 2013-07-03T07:52:30 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 23182 2024-10-03T07:27:36.530060 application/rdf+xml 25950 2024-10-03T07:27:27.363959 image/jpeg 4964 2024-10-03T07:27:27.083961 image/jpeg 219533 2024-10-03T07:27:24.200995 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia