You would hope that if you were selling one of the world's few one million pound notes you would at least get its face value at auction. But one of only nine ever issued was sold today for a ...

Mark Twain's classic story of the penniless American who is given a million pound bank note in a wager and succeeds in keeping it intact for a month, makes gentle screen satire. Mark Twain’s ...

The euro zone's high-denomination banknotes always remind me of the Mark Twain short storyor rather the Gregory Peck  movie, "The Million Pound Note." That, older readers may recall ...

A classic tale from the master of literary realism, Mark Twain. Published in 1893, The Million Pound Bank Note is a short story written towards the end of Mark Twain’s career. Unusually for ...

Two old and fabulously wealthy brothers, Roderick and Oliver Montpelier, draw a currency note for £1,000,000 from their bank for a wager. Roderick maintains that it would be quite useless to any ...

An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor ...