Brewster's MillionsIndiana University Press, 1999 - 325 pages Would you be able to spend a million dollars in cash and leave yourself penniless, if it meant you would then be given many more millions? That's poor Monty Brewster's dilemma in this charming 1903 tale which has been made into a movie six times, the most recent starring Richard Pryor and John Candy. |
Contents
Mrs and Miss Gray | 14 |
A Second Will | 24 |
The Message from Jones | 35 |
Monty Cristo | 49 |
A Lesson in Tact | 62 |
The Forelock of Time | 68 |
Love and a Prizefight | 76 |
The Napoleon of Finance | 84 |
Le Roi SAmuse | 181 |
Fairyland | 193 |
Prince and Peasants | 202 |
An Offer of Marriage | 212 |
The Sheiks Strategy | 221 |
The Rescue of Peggy | 234 |
The Mutiny | 243 |
A Fair Traitor | 252 |
Coals of Fire | 94 |
Christmas Despair | 106 |
A Friend in Need | 114 |
Mrs DeMille Entertains | 123 |
The Cut Direct | 133 |
In the Sunny South | 146 |
The New Tenderfoot | 157 |
The Prodigal at Sea | 166 |
One Hero and Another | 174 |
A Catastrophe | 263 |
The Prodigals Return | 272 |
The Promise of Thrift | 282 |
How the Million Disappeared | 290 |
The Night Before | 298 |
The Flight of Jones | 306 |
The Last Word | 315 |
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