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Brewsters millions by mccutcheon, first edition abebooks. The basic story revolves around monty brewster, an impoverished young man who inherits a substantial amount of money from a longlost relative and also stands to further inherit a huge additional amount. I have been one of millions of agatha christies fans for many years but some how missed reading this one. The screenplay by herschel weingrod and timothy harris was based on the 1902 novel of the same name by george barr mccutcheon. You might find it mystifying that lemann constantly denigrates a system that helped open up higher education. They were all young, more or less enterprising, hopeful, and reasonably. The book became quite popular in india as many indian movies were based on this book.
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