Project Gutenberg 2003-12-01 Public domain in the USA. 116 McCutcheon, George Barr 1866 1928 Brewster's Millions Produced by Robert Rowe, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. HTML version by Al Haines. "Brewster's Millions" by George Barr McCutcheon is a humorous novel written during the early 20th century. It follows the intriguing story of Montgomery "Monty" Brewster, a young man who unexpectedly inherits a million-dollar fortune from his grandfather. However, he quickly learns that he must spend the entire amount within a year without retaining any visible assets to inherit an even larger fortune left to him by a recently deceased uncle. The opening of the novel introduces us to Monty during his birthday celebration with his affluent friends, where they toast to his life and wealth. The mood abruptly shifts when he receives word of his grandfather's sudden death and subsequent inheritance. As Monty grapples with the emotional weight of losing his grandfather, he faces the challenge of spending his inheritance in a year while navigating the expectations of his family and society. The story sets the stage for Monty’s comedic exploits as he attempts to comply with the peculiar conditions of his grandfather’s will while coming to terms with his new status and responsibilities. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Humorous stories Inheritance and succession -- Fiction Bildungsromans Young men -- Fiction Millionaires -- Fiction PS Text Best Books Ever Listings Browsing: Humour Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 419436 412664 2024-10-02T13:46:42.391443 2023-10-02T11:34:15.509837 text/html text/html 405378 2020-12-28T06:41:04 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 149550 2020-12-28T06:41:04 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 230353 2024-10-02T13:46:51.019492 application/epub+zip 239249 2024-10-02T13:46:45.610437 application/epub+zip 222978 2024-10-02T13:46:44.330443 application/epub+zip 431003 2024-10-02T13:46:55.043420 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 421525 2024-10-02T13:46:50.171443 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 391236 2022-09-03T04:00:47.760492 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 379969 379865 2024-10-02T13:46:41.284462 2023-10-02T11:34:14.722845 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 379829 2020-12-28T06:41:04 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 146561 2020-12-28T06:41:04 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20698 2024-10-02T13:46:55.182374 application/rdf+xml 14740 2024-10-02T13:46:44.892448 image/jpeg 3706 2024-10-02T13:46:44.607426 image/jpeg 224373 2024-10-02T13:46:42.435435 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