Three Millions! or, The Way of the World by Oliver Optic

Description

Three million dollars! The opening of Oliver Optic’s novel is a sentence of pure suggestion — of mighty air-castles, untold grandeur, and matchless liberality to the poor; and of long, weary years of seeking after worldly wealth and parsimonious self-denial besides. When Uncle John, after a solemn and ceremonial committing to the tomb, leaves the Hungerford family of Poppleton Point exactly that sum, the whole town — and the great world beyond it — begins to move accordingly.

Oliver Optic — the pen name of William Taylor Adams, one of the most successful writers for boys in American history — used the sudden fortune as the engine of a sharp, funny story about what money does to people: the artist sketching the spray at Poppleton Point, the friends and schemers who appear from nowhere, and the honest family that must learn the way of the world without losing its own way. Lively, kindly, and expertly paced — a classic of American juvenile letters.

Why readers still come back to it

• Oliver Optic’s famous tale of a sudden fortune and its consequences
• Vivid mid-century American settings and a rapid, delightful plot
• A moral story told without heaviness, from a master storyteller

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