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100 1 _aMcCutcheon, George Barr,
_d1866-1928
245 1 4 _aThe Man from Brodney's
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2004
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2004-03-01
508 _aE-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Susan Skinner, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
520 _a"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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aIslands -- Fiction
653 _aInheritance and succession -- Fiction
653 _aLove stories
653 _aNobility -- Fiction
700 1 _aFisher, Harrison,
_d1875-1934
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11572
999 _c53018
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