Project Gutenberg 2004-03-01 Public domain in the USA. 181 McCutcheon, George Barr 1866 1928 Fisher, Harrison 1875 1934 The Man from Brodney's E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Susan Skinner, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team "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.) Reading ease score: 82.7 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Islands -- Fiction Inheritance and succession -- Fiction Love stories Nobility -- Fiction PS Text Bestsellers, American, 1895-1923 Category: Romance Category: Adventure Category: Novels Category: American Literature 656101 2025-07-05T08:08:08.766076 text/html 667794 2020-12-25T23:50:57 text/html 1146961 2025-07-05T08:08:19.032531 application/epub+zip 1159375 2025-07-05T08:08:11.892631 application/epub+zip 335583 2025-07-05T08:08:10.379054 application/epub+zip 882479 2025-07-05T08:08:24.652515 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 840022 2025-07-05T08:08:17.925504 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 491341 2022-09-06T03:50:12.705461 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 614950 2025-07-05T08:08:06.906088 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 594955 2024-10-28T18:46:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 615995 2020-12-25T23:50:57 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 615991 2020-12-25T23:50:57 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 22116 2025-07-05T08:08:24.790474 application/rdf+xml 11928 2025-07-05T08:08:10.883081 image/jpeg 3286 2025-07-05T08:08:10.631042 image/jpeg 239415 2020-12-25T23:50:57 application/octet-stream application/zip 1156539 2020-12-25T23:50:57 application/octet-stream application/zip 239346 2020-12-25T23:50:57 application/octet-stream application/zip 1229308 2025-07-05T08:08:08.830106 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia