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In Miami, a mysterious consulting firm stretches its predatory tentacles across the country seeking CEOs from the ranks of failing businesses. Their newest client is Waldorf Keefer, the incompetent and self-indulgent third generation president of the largest manufacturer in a small Kansas town. This darkly humorous novel tells what happens when Keefer and the shady consultants run into unexpected resistance within the ranks of the struggling company and this community on the plains. In a battle of small town values versus corporate greed, the story turns some unexpected corners and leaves one...

Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909) was, during his life, an acclaimed and prolific writer in multiple genres: poetry, travel sketches, personal memoir, and conversion narrative. His most popular works were dispatches primarily from the South Sea Islands but also extended into Palestine, Egypt, and what would become known as Hawai'i, most of which were published in the San Francisco Chronicle and then collected into books. For the Pleasure of His Company: An Affair of the Misty City, Thrice Told (1903) is Stoddard's only novel. This new edition, as with other works in Penn Press's series...