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ISBN: 1427083487
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Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Brewster's Millions (Unabridged)
Author: Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427083487
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Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Brewster's Millions
Author: George Barr George Barr McCutcheonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781521152997
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Languages : en
Pages : 266
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How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Brewster's Millions by George Barr McCutcheon Brewster's Millions is a novel written by George Barr McCutcheon in 1902, originally under the pseudonym of Richard Greaves. It was adapted into a play in 1906, which opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway, and the novel or play has been adapted into films ten times, three of which were produced in India. The novel revolves around Montgomery Brewster, a young man who inherits one million dollars from his rich grandfather. Shortly after, a rich and eccentric uncle who hated Brewster's grandfather (a long-held grudge stemming from the grandfather's disapproval of the marriage of Brewster's parents) also dies. The uncle will leave Brewster seven million dollars, but only under the condition that he keeps none of the grandfather's money. Brewster is required to spend every penny of his grandfather's million within one year, resulting in no assets or property held from the wealth at the end of that time. If Brewster meets these terms, he will gain the full seven million; if he fails, he remains penniless.Brewster finds that spending so much money within the course of a year is incredibly difficult under the strict conditions imposed by his uncle's will. Brewster is required to demonstrate business sense by obtaining good value for the money he spends, limiting his donations to charity, his losses to gambling, and the value of his tips to waiters and cab drivers. Moreover, Brewster is sworn to secrecy, and cannot tell anyone why he is living to excess. Working against him are his well-meaning friends, who try repeatedly to limit his losses and extravagance even as they share in his luxurious lifestyle. Brewster's challenge is compounded by the fact that his attempts to lose money through stock speculation and roulette prove to increase his funds rather than decrease them. He throws
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1450
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The United Editors Perpetual Encyclopedia
Author: Lincoln's Gamble
Author: Todd BrewsterPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451693893
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
A brilliant, authoritative, and riveting account of the most critical six months in Abraham Lincoln's presidency, when he penned the Emancipation Proclamation and changed the course of the Civil War.
Brewster's Millions
Author: Six Essays on the Responsibilities of the Novelist
Author: Frank NorrisAntiquarian Bookman
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1382
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1166
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The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Author: N. K. JemisinPublisher: Orbit
ISBN: 0316075973
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
After her mother's mysterious death, a young woman is summoned to the floating city of Sky in order to claim a royal inheritance she never knew existed in the first book in this award-winning fantasy trilogy from the NYT bestselling author of The Fifth Season. Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle with cousins she never knew she had. As she fights for her life, she draws ever closer to the secrets of her mother's death and her family's bloody history. With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Yeine will learn how perilous it can be when love and hate -- and gods and mortals -- are bound inseparably together.