Brewster's Millions

325 pp. Four pages of publisher ads follow text. Frontispiece and seven plates (stills from the 1914 film directed by Aifel and DeMille, starring Edward Abeles). "Brewster's Millions is a novel written by George Barr McCutcheon in 1902, originally under the pseudonym of Richard Greaves. It was adapted into a play in 1906, which opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre, and the novel or play has been made into a movie nine times (including twice in India)." CONTENTS: A Birthday Dinner; Shades of Aladdin; Mrs. and Miss Gray; A Second Will; The Message from Jones; Monty Cristo; A Lesson in Tact; The Forelock of Time; Love and a Prize-fight; The Napoleon of Finance; Coals of Fire; Christmas Despair; A Friend in Need; Mrs. DeMille Entertains; The Cut Direct; In the Sunny South; The New Tenderfoot; The Prodigal at Sea; Our Hero and Another; Le Rol S'Amuse; Fairyland; Prince and Princess; An Offer of Marriage; The Sheik's Strategy; The Rescue of Peggy; The Mutiny; A Fair Traitor; A Catastrophe; The Prodigal's Return; The Promise of Thrift; How the Million Disappeared; The Night Before; The Flight of Jones; The Last Word.