The £1,000,000 bank-note, and other new stories

Mark Twain

• Stories
• Book language: English
• 161 pages

A collection of humorous short stories by Mark Twain. The title story follows a penniless American in London who is given a million-pound banknote and must live on the reputation of wealth it brings. Twain gently satirizes money, credit, and social pretension, and the other tales show his comic range.

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