| The Million Pound Bank Note Contributor(s): Twain, Mark (Author) |
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ISBN: 1985272970 ISBN-13: 9781985272972 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $7.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Action & Adventure |
| Physical Information: 0.1" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.18 lbs) 50 pages |
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| Publisher Description: When I was twenty-seven years old, I was a mining-broker's clerk in San Francisco, and an expert in all the details of stock traffic. I was alone in the world, and had nothing to depend upon but my wits and a clean reputation; but these were setting my feet in the road to eventual fortune, and I was content with the prospect. My time was my own after the afternoon board, Saturdays, and I was accustomed to put it in on a little sail-boat on the bay. One day I ventured too far, and was carried out to sea. Just at nightfall, when hope was about gone, I was picked up by a small brig which was bound for London. It was a long and stormy voyage, and they made me work my passage without pay, as a common sailor. When I stepped ashore in London my clothes were ragged and shabby, and I had only a dollar in my pocket. This money fed and sheltered me twenty-four hours. During the next twenty-four I went without food and shelter. |
