Project Gutenberg 2004-03-01 Public domain in the USA. 101 McCutcheon, George Barr 1866 1928 Fisher, Harrison 1875 1934 The Man from Brodney's E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Susan Skinner, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team "The Man from Brodney's" by George Barr McCutcheon is a novel likely written in the early 20th century. The story unfolds in an exotic setting, beginning with the mysterious death of Taswell Skaggs, whose will sets off a chain reaction involving his heirs across the Atlantic. The narrative appears to revolve around themes of inheritance and unexpected complications that arise from Skaggs's eccentric bequests, particularly regarding his heirs' romantic entanglements. At the start of the book, the events chase the aftermath of Skaggs's peculiar demise after falling into a volcano on the island of Japat. His will stipulates that his fortune is to be passed down to his granddaughter and an American named Robert Browne, with the added complexity that they must marry within a year to retain the inheritance. Meanwhile, their respective lives are explored: Browne is newly married, and the granddaughter has ambitions to marry into British nobility. The opening portion introduces the critical tension of the story: the stakes of love and duty intertwined with the rich, comedic absurdity of the situation as lawyers scramble to navigate the implications of the will. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Islands -- Fiction Inheritance and succession -- Fiction Love stories Nobility -- Fiction PS Text Bestsellers, American, 1895-1923 Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 655967 648506 2024-09-05T09:21:23.405612 2023-10-05T09:47:30.693400 text/html text/html 667794 2020-12-25T23:50:57 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 1156539 2020-12-25T23:50:57 text/html application/zip 1123854 2024-09-05T09:21:33.295490 application/epub+zip 1136518 2024-09-05T09:21:25.450525 application/epub+zip 319445 2024-09-05T09:21:24.111514 application/epub+zip 843793 2024-09-05T09:21:39.551440 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 801240 2024-09-05T09:21:32.246486 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 491341 2022-09-06T03:50:12.705461 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 614950 614852 2024-09-05T09:21:21.423538 2023-10-05T09:47:29.028390 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 615995 2020-12-25T23:50:57 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 239415 2020-12-25T23:50:57 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 615991 2020-12-25T23:50:57 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 239346 2020-12-25T23:50:57 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21868 2024-09-05T09:21:39.738394 application/rdf+xml 11985 2024-09-05T09:21:24.483492 image/jpeg 3279 2024-09-05T09:21:24.297474 image/jpeg 1208881 2024-09-05T09:21:23.480511 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia