The False Gods

by George Horace Lorimer

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68 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 1, 2005

About the author

George Horace Lorimer (October 6, 1867 – October 22, 1937) was an American journalist and author. He is best known as the editor of The Saturday Evening Post. During his editorial reign, the Post rose from a circulation of several thousand to over a million. He is credited with promoting or discovering a large number of American writers, e.g. Jack London.

Lorimer was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of the Rev. George C. Lorimer and Belle Burford Lorimer. He attended Moseley High School in Chicago, Colby College, and Yale University. In 1899 he became editor-in-chief of The Saturday Evening Post, and remained in charge until the last day of 1936, about a year before his death from throat cancer. He served also as vice president, president, and chairman of Curtis Publishing Company, which published the Post.

Reviews

[Susan Molloy · Rating 3 out of 5]

🖊 My review: An interesting short story that was actually humorous in some areas. What I liked the best were the scenes that had the ancient Egyptian theme. The Project Gutenberg e-book version has the original illustrations that the Kindle version omits.
✔️Published in 1906.
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🟣 Media form: Kindle version.
🟢 Media form: Project Gutenberg .
🔲 Excerpts I found memorable:

🔸 "Aw, fergit it," the youth answered with fine American independence. "I'll let youse know when your turn comes, an' youse can keep your ref'rences till you're asked for 'em," and he surveyed Simpkins with marked disfavor.

🔸 I t was shortly after ten o'clock one morning when Ezra Simpkins, a reporter from the Boston Banner, entered the Oriental Building, that dingy pile of brick and brownstone which covers a block on Sixth Avenue, and began to hunt for the office of the Royal Society of Egyptian Exploration and Research. After wandering through a labyrinth of halls, he finally found it on the second floor.

🔸 "Quite right, Simpkins," Mrs. Athelstone replied, evidently pleased by his interest and knowledge. "He was Amosis, a king of the eighteenth dynasty, and Nefruari's husband. A big, powerful man!" "What a bully cigarette brand he'd make!" thought Simpkins, and aloud he added: "They must have been a fine-looking pair."