百万英镑马克·吐温中短篇小说选（世界名著典藏）( The Million Pound Note from Selection of Novelettes and Short Stories by Mark Twain Collection of World-Famous Books)

（《百万英镑》马克·吐温中短篇小说选），本书共收录了马克·吐温19篇中短篇小说，其中以《百万英镑》、《竞选州长》、《加利福尼亚人的故事》等最富盛名，《百万英镑》目前收录于我国语文教材中，是马克.吐温众多中短篇中的一颗明珠。《百万英镑》中的主人公亨利是一位流浪到英国的穷困美国青年。偶然被两个富翁选中，成为了赌约中得到百万英镑的人。其中一个富翁赌定亨利会在30天内饿死街头，另一个则赌他不会饿死。在当时的浮夸的金钱至上的社会，亨利的人生也因为这突如其来的百万支票而发生了翻天覆地的变化。(("The Million Pound Note" from Selection of Novelettes and Short Stories by Mark Twain) This book collects 19 pieces of novelettes and short stories by Mark Twain, in which "The Million Pound Note", "Running for Governor", and "The Californian’s Tale" are the most prestigious. Like a pearl among numerous novelettes and short stories by this writer, "The Million Pound Note" is currently included in the Chinese teaching materials. The leading character of this story, Henry, is a poor American young man who wanders in the UK. Selected by two wealthy men by chance, he becomes the man who gets one million ponds in a bet. One of such two wealthy men bets that Henry will starve to death in the street within 30 days. The other one thinks that Henry will not. In the boasting, money-oriented society then, the life of Henry undergoes an earthshaking change because of this unexpected million pond note.)