Roast Beef, Medium by Edna Ferber ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

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12/21/22

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298m

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Roast Beef, Medium by Edna Ferber audiobook.

Genre: drama

This book follows the adventures of Emma McChesney, a smart and savvy divorced mother who travels the Midwest as a sales representative for a large skirt and petticoat manufacturer. Her many adventures with people, (including predatory salesmen and hotel clerks), are funny and poignant. She is hardworking and able to outsell the slickest of the men salesmen. She has learned to focus on her work and her seventeen-year-old son, Jock. Experience has taught her that it is usually best to stick to roast beef, medium and not get stomach ache with fancy sauces and exotic dishes. This is the first of three volumes following the career and adventures of Emma McChesney.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:02:57) Chapter 01

(00:26:56) Chapter 02

(00:52:09) Chapter 03

(01:16:53) Chapter 04

(01:43:30) Chapter 05

(02:11:55) Chapter 06

(02:38:35) Chapter 07

(03:05:36) Chapter 08

(03:38:27) Chapter 09

(04:13:19) Chapter 10

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Personality Plus by Edna Ferber ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

December 21, 2022

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171m

Personality Plus by Edna Ferber audiobook.

Genre: drama

Set in bustling early 1900s New York, Personality Plus follows Emma McChesney, a stylish, sharp-witted divorced mother who has fought her way up from life on the road to a coveted seat in the office as partner in the T. A. Buck Featherloom Petticoat Company. With a real home at last and a new level of responsibility, Emma expects challenges - but not necessarily from the person she loves most. Her son, Jock, is twenty-one and determined to conquer the advertising world on his own terms, armed with confidence, charm, and a hunger to prove that modern hustle beats old-school know-how. As Jock dazzles coworkers and courts big accounts, his gift for selling can slide into showmanship, bending rules and bruising egos. When business pressures mount and a high-stakes campaign pulls mother and son into the same orbit, Emma must defend the value of experience, ethics, and steady judgment - even as she confronts her own doubts about what success should look like. With brisk dialogue, humor, and social insight, Ferber delivers a lively clash of ambition and integrity, and a portrait of a woman refusing to be sidelined in either boardroom or family.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:31:07) Chapter 2

(01:01:58) Chapter 3

(01:33:07) Chapter 4

(02:11:54) Chapter 5

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The Dancing Girls by Edna Ferber ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

December 21, 2022

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168m

The Dancing Girls by Edna Ferber audiobook.

Genre: drama

In The Dancing Girls, Edna Ferber gathers four sharp, warmhearted stories about ordinary people pushed to their limits by class, family obligation, and war. In the title tale, Chippewa, Wisconsin, is split cleanly by money and by the railroad tracks. Floyd 'Chug' Scaritt, a talented young garage owner and irresistible dance partner, knows exactly where he stands - until a late-night accident and the sudden demands of World War I briefly scramble the town's social rules. As uniforms, dances, and patriotic committees bring unlikely people together, Chug discovers a different kind of girl - and a different kind of future - than the one his old crowd expects. In 'Old Lady Mandle,' a proud Chicago matriarch reigns over her devoted son until a new wife threatens the balance of power. 'Long Distance' follows a wounded American soldier in an English rehabilitation hospital, where love letters and memory wage a quiet battle. And in 'One Hundred Per Cent,' the indomitable Emma McChesney Buck returns to work and travel, determined to put every ounce of herself into the home-front effort. Together, these stories blend humor, tenderness, and unsparing social observation.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:49:44) Chapter 2

(01:41:21) Chapter 3

(01:53:39) Chapter 4

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