John Jones' Dollar

Overview:

• Title: John Jones' Dollar
• Author: Harry Stephen Keeler
• Year: 1914
• Type: Short Fiction

Synopsis:

The eponymous socialist invests one dollar, which eventually grows to become an incredible fortune used to found a Fabian Socialist society. Probably the first story of its kind.

Editions/Publications:

• 1927. Amazing Stories, April 1927 (1927, Hugo Gernsback, 96 pages, Magazine)
• 1948. Strange Ports of Call (1948, August Derleth Pellegrini Cudahy, Hardcover, Anthology)
• 1958. Fantasia Mathematica (1958, Clifton Fadiman Simon & Schuster, $4.95, 298 pages, Hardcover, Anthology)

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