The Man from Brodney's by George Barr McCutcheon
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"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.)
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About this eBook
| Author | McCutcheon, George Barr, 1866-1928 |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Fisher, Harrison, 1875-1934 |
| Title | The Man from Brodney's |
| Credits | E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Susan Skinner, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 82.7 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Islands -- Fiction |
| Subject | Inheritance and succession -- Fiction |
| Subject | Love stories |
| Subject | Nobility -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 11572 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-11572-6 |
| Release Date | Mar 1, 2004 |
| Last Update | Oct 28, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 459 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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