Project Gutenberg 2023-05-16 Public domain in the USA. 110 Twain, Mark 1835 1910 Clemens, Samuel Langhorne Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens) Gaïl, François de 1874 1947 Gail, Francois de De Gaïl, François Un pari de milliardaires et autres nouvelles $aFrance :$bMercure de France, $c1905. Translated selections from: The £1,000,000 bank-note, and other new stories Un pari de milliardaires -- Une pétition a la reine d'Angleterre -- La Chicago allemande -- La télégraphie mentale -- Un courrier amateur -- Un majestueux fossile -- Essais humoristiques sur des sujets variés: Bateaux modernes et vieux bateaux. L'Arche de Noé. La caravelle de Christophe Colomb. Un sentiment disparu. Véronique Le Bris, Laurent Vogel, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica)) "Un pari de milliardaires et autres nouvelles" by Mark Twain is a collection of short stories written in the late 19th century. The work opens with a humorous tale involving a young man who comes to London with little money and finds himself embroiled in a peculiar wager between two wealthy brothers involving a million-pound banknote, exploring themes of luck, deception, and social status. At the start of the story, the protagonist, disheveled and famished, is saved from starvation by two wealthy brothers engaged in a heated debate over whether a resourceful stranger could survive in London with a mysterious million-pound banknote. After choosing him as their test subject, they entrust him with the note, leading to an amusing series of encounters as he navigates his newfound wealth while grappling with the absurdities and pitfalls of high society. As he begins to enjoy the benefits of his situation, he becomes increasingly concerned about the implications of the wager being made on his behalf and the fate awaiting him once the month ends, adding a layer of suspense to the comedic premise. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k66075j 20230128092955twain 1905 FR Reading ease score: 67.2 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. fr American fiction -- Translations into French American essays -- Translations into French Humorous stories, American -- Translations into French PS Text Category: Short Stories Category: Humour Category: Classics of Literature Category: British Literature 308047 2025-07-28T06:15:42.856829 text/html 308240 2023-05-21T13:58:44 text/html 387703 2025-07-28T06:15:47.615811 application/epub+zip 389773 2025-07-28T06:15:43.853851 application/epub+zip 174430 2025-07-28T06:15:43.351828 application/epub+zip 492591 2025-07-28T06:15:50.531775 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 461020 2025-07-28T06:15:47.142842 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 277473 2025-07-28T06:15:42.244824 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 277277 2023-05-21T13:54:50 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 20044 2025-07-28T06:15:50.700792 application/rdf+xml 26634 2025-07-28T06:15:43.472822 image/jpeg 4199 2025-07-28T06:15:43.412825 image/jpeg 105697 2023-05-21T13:59:10 application/octet-stream application/zip 352248 2023-05-21T13:59:10 application/octet-stream application/zip 367223 2025-07-28T06:15:42.888852 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