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050 4 _aPS
100 1 _aTwain, Mark,
_d1835-1910
245 1 3 _aUn pari de milliardaires et autres nouvelles
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2023
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTranslated selections from: The £1,000,000 bank-note, and other new stories
500 _aRelease date is 2023-05-16
505 0 _aUn pari de milliardaires -- Une pétition a la reine d'Angleterre -- La Chicago allemande -- La télégraphie mentale -- Un courrier amateur -- Un majestueux fossile -- Essais humoristiques sur des sujets variés: Bateaux modernes et vieux bateaux. L'Arche de Noé. La caravelle de Christophe Colomb. Un sentiment disparu.
508 _aVéronique Le Bris, Laurent Vogel, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica))
520 _a"Un pari de milliardaires et autres nouvelles" by Mark Twain is a collection of short stories written in the late 19th century. The work opens with a humorous tale involving a young man who comes to London with little money and finds himself embroiled in a peculiar wager between two wealthy brothers involving a million-pound banknote, exploring themes of luck, deception, and social status. At the start of the story, the protagonist, disheveled and famished, is saved from starvation by two wealthy brothers engaged in a heated debate over whether a resourceful stranger could survive in London with a mysterious million-pound banknote. After choosing him as their test subject, they entrust him with the note, leading to an amusing series of encounters as he navigates his newfound wealth while grappling with the absurdities and pitfalls of high society. As he begins to enjoy the benefits of his situation, he becomes increasingly concerned about the implications of the wager being made on his behalf and the fate awaiting him once the month ends, adding a layer of suspense to the comedic premise. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cFrance: Mercure de France, 1905
653 _aAmerican fiction -- Translations into French
653 _aAmerican essays -- Translations into French
653 _aHumorous stories, American -- Translations into French
700 1 _aGaïl, François de,
_d1874-1947
856 4 _uhttps://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k66075j
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70778
999 _c111504
_d111504