Three millions! — Oliver Optic

Three millions!

Oliver Optic

Children
Book language: English
421 pages

A children's novel by Oliver Optic, the pen name of William T. Adams, published in 1891. The title 'Three Millions!' and subtitle 'The Way of the World' point to a story about money, character, and worldly lessons for young readers. It is worth listening to as a window into nineteenth-century American juvenile fiction and its moral ideals.

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Contents

THREE MILLIONS!
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. THREE MILLIONS.
CHAPTER II. MR. ELIOT BUCKSTONE.
CHAPTER III. THE HUNGERFORD FAMILY.
CHAPTER IV. OFF THE GREAT BELL.
CHAPTER V. THE KINGMAN FAMILY.
CHAPTER VI. A STRANGE STORY.
CHAPTER VII. POOR MARY!
CHAPTER VIII. TO EUROPE AND BACK.
CHAPTER IX. HEALING THE WOUNDS.
CHAPTER X. ROSS KINGMAN.
CHAPTER XI. DOCTOR BILKS.
CHAPTER XII. DICK BIRCH.
CHAPTER XIII. DICK UNDER A SHADOW.
CHAPTER XIV. IN THE LIBRARY.
CHAPTER XV. DR. BILKS ON THE STAND.
CHAPTER XVI. DR. BILKS’S BABY.
CHAPTER XVII. THE SETTLEMENT.
CHAPTER XVIII. EVIDENCE WANTED.
CHAPTER XIX. THE ROPE AND THE WEIGHT.
CHAPTER XX. THE SHADOW AT PINE HILL.
CHAPTER XXI. THE DEMIGOD OF PINE HILL.
CHAPTER XXII. DICK BIRCH’S SUGGESTION.
CHAPTER XXIII. JULIA HUNGERFORD.
CHAPTER XXIV. POPPLETON GOSPEL.
CHAPTER XXV. DR. LYNCH.
CHAPTER XXVI. THE PENITENT DEMIGOD.
CHAPTER XXVII. THE VERDICT.
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE DOCTOR HIMSELF AGAIN.

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