Project Gutenberg 2008-10-10 Public domain in the USA. 5950 Keeler, Harry Stephen 1890 1967 Keeler, H. Stephen (Harry Stephen) Keeler, Stephen John Jones's Dollar Produced from Amazing Stories April 1956 and was first published in Amazing Stories April 1927. Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "John Jones's Dollar" by Harry Stephen Keeler is a science fiction novel written in the early 20th century. Set in a futuristic world, the story revolves around the concept of compounding interest and its economic implications across centuries. The narrative is framed through a lecture delivered by a history professor in the year 3221 A.D., who discusses the historical significance of a single dollar deposited by a socialist named John Jones in 1921. The central plot focuses on John Jones and the extraordinary wealth that results from a seemingly mundane action: depositing a dollar in a bank with the stipulation of compounded interest over generations. As the narrative progresses, the professor elaborates on how this dollar grows astronomically over nearly a millennium, eventually leading to a dilemma faced by its descendants regarding the cumulative debt they would owe. The climax occurs when the last descendant's failure to produce an heir results in the state claiming the wealth, ultimately prompting a societal shift towards socialism. The book uses humor and fantastical elements to explore themes of economics, inheritance, and the impact of individual actions on future society. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 59.2 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. en Science fiction Short stories Compound interest -- Fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Humour Category: Novels Category: American Literature 53110 2025-06-11T07:18:57.635123 text/html 48982 2021-01-04T05:44:00 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 96053 2021-01-04T05:44:00 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 164583 2025-06-11T07:19:02.220085 application/epub+zip 163368 2025-06-11T07:18:59.645108 application/epub+zip 87152 2025-06-11T07:18:58.301155 application/epub+zip 340423 2025-06-11T07:19:04.038083 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 333234 2025-06-11T07:19:01.365131 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 153984 2022-09-12T11:43:11.236938 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 44617 2025-06-11T07:18:57.339115 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 44421 2021-01-04T05:44:00 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17084 2021-01-04T05:44:00 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19585 2025-06-11T07:19:04.180081 application/rdf+xml 13706 2025-06-11T07:18:58.863106 image/jpeg 3452 2025-06-11T07:18:58.582085 image/jpeg 164775 2025-06-11T07:18:57.646108 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