An unsuccessful traveling salesman finally confronts, in his early sixties, his shattered dreams.

The time is 1946, the town is Elmwood Springs, Missouri, right in the middle of the country, in the midst of the mostly joyous transition from war to peace, aiming toward a dizzyingly bright future. Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, we also meet Bobby, her ten-year-old son, destined to live a thousand lives, most of them in his imagination; Norma and Macky Warren and their ninety-eight-year-old Aunt Elner; the oddly...

"Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, content working at Starbucks in the lobby of a Midtown office building, hanging out with his girlfriend, Soraya, and eating his mother's home-cooked meals. A chance encounter with Rhett Daniels, CEO of Sumwun, NYC's hottest tech startup, results in an exclusive invitation for Darren to join an elite sales team on the thirty-sixth floor. As the only Black person in the company, Darren reimagines...

A hapless door-to-door salesman becomes a prime suspect when one of his clients is murdered. Now, he and his girl have to outwit the murderer and the cops 'til they can prove he's innocent! If this all sounds familiar, Columbia released a similarly plotted picture just two years later, swapping another famous redhead into the lead, Lucille Ball in The Fuller Brush Girl! But this is the original.

A business classic endorsed by Dale Carnegie, How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling is for anyone whose job it is to sell. Whether you are selling houses or mutual funds, advertisements or ideas—or anything else—this book is for you.
When Frank Bettger was twenty-nine he was a failed insurance salesman. By the time he was forty he owned a country estate and could have retired. What are the selling secrets...

In 2006, whilst working in a full-time job, James Schramko wrote this in a notebook: MY GOALS ... create automated income so that I am independently wealthy and enjoy my life passionately. Within three years, he'd built his own business and achieved those goals. At which point he set about helping his coaching clients do the same. Leveraging his knowledge and experience, they were able to make more money while reducing their work hours. Significantly....

Easy street (1916): Stars Charlie Chaplin as a vagrant who reforms and becomes a cop. Assigned to the worst slum in town, he conquers a brute three times his size. One week (1920): Buster Keaton assembles a prefabricated house for his bride during the first six days of their marriage. Unfortunately, the directions are sabatoged by her spurned suitor. Chasing choo-choos (1927): Heiress Virginia Craig is in love with Monty, a working man. The men...

"Quichotte, an aging traveling salesman obsessed with the "unreal real" of TV, falls in impossible love with a queen of the screen; while obsessively writing her love letters, he wishes an imaginary son, Sancho, into existence. Together they set off across America in Quichotte's trusty Chevy Cruze to find her and convince her of his love. Meanwhile, Quichotte's tragicomic story is being told by the author who created him: Brother, a mediocre spy novelist...