The One-Million-Pound Bank-Note
The One-Million-Pound Bank-Note is a short story by Mark Twain set in Edwardian London.
Two rich old gentlemen give a penniless young man a million pound note as an interest free loan. The reason? His rich benefactors have a bet on whether or not he will be able to last the month.
- About the author: Samuel Langhorne Clemens (known by his pen name Mark Twain) was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Critics praised him as the “greatest humorist the United States has produced”. His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884).
