A Collector's Edition of 47 Storybooks About Inheritance
Tales of Estates, Lost Wills, Family Secrets, Heredity, and the Burdens of LegacyBy Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Mrs. Oliphant, Christabel R. Coleridge, Charles Clark Munn, Charles Klein, Arthur Hornblow, David Whitelaw, E. F. Benson, P. G. Wodehouse, Alex. McVeigh Mrs. Miller, Jack Steele, John Reed Scott, T. W. Speight, Headon Hill, E. C. Kenyon, V. Sackville-West, Richard Marsh, Paul Popenoe, Roswell H. Johnson, A. S. Packard, Grant Allen, Charles Benedict Davenport, William Bateson, A. J. Foster, Edith E. Cuthell, Honoré de Balzac, G. A. Henty, George de Horne Mrs. Vaizey, Talbot Baines Reed, Dorothea Moore, Edward Stratemeyer, L. T. Meade, Matthew White, Mary H. Debenham, Janet D. Wheeler, Harold Avery, Horatio Jr. Alger, Walter Bagehot, Henry H. Goddard
Length372h 9m
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A Collector's Edition of 47 Storybooks About Inheritance gathers tales in which property, lineage, kinship, and heredity shape private desire and public consequence. Moving among domestic realism, sensation fiction, romance, adventure, juvenile narrative, comedy, and speculative or didactic prose, the volume places contested wills, family secrets, social rank, and biological inheritance in revealing dialogue. Its breadth makes inheritance not merely a plot device but a cultural question. The contributors span nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British, American, and European literary worlds, bringing together popular storytellers, novelists of social observation, writers for young readers, and commentators associated with emergent debates about heredity. Their varied professional and national contexts illuminate the era's changing attitudes toward class mobility, gendered property, family obligation, and scientific authority. The collection also invites critical attention to historically situated assumptions—especially where discussions of heredity intersect with now-discredited eugenic thought. Recommended for students and general readers alike, this anthology offers an unusually capacious archive of inheritance narratives. Reading across its many registers reveals how legal, emotional, economic, and biological meanings of succession continually overlap. It is valuable both for its entertaining range and for the productive conversations its contrasting works create about family, identity, and social power.
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GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length372 hrs 9 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Poor Gentleman
2A Poor Gentleman
3CHAPTER I. THE TWO FAMILIES.
4CHAPTER V. A WINTER’S WALK.
5CHAPTER IX. FAMILY COUNSELS.
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6CHAPTER XII. A NEW FACTOR.
7CHAPTER XVI. THE PRIMROSE PATH.
8CHAPTER XX. SIR WALTER AND HIS HEIR.
9A POOR GENTLEMAN.
10CHAPTER XXVIII. A DECISIVE MOMENT.
11CHAPTER XXXI. A VISIT.
12CHAPTER XXXV. WAITING.
13CHAPTER XXXIX. ALLY’S PART.
14CHAPTER XLIII. ALLY’S SECRET.
15CHAPTER XLVII AN AGITATING ENCOUNTER.
16The Greatest Heiress in England
17The Greatest Heiress in England
18CHAPTER I. NO. 6 IN THE TERRACE.
19CHAPTER IV. SISTER AND BROTHER.
20CHAPTER VIII. EXPLANATIONS.
21CHAPTER XII. FATHER AND DAUGHTER.
22CHAPTER XV. THE SIGNING OF THE WILL.
23CHAPTER XVIII. THE NEW LIFE.
24CHAPTER XXI. POWER.
25CHAPTER XXIV. SIR TOM.
26CHAPTER XXVII. LUCY’S FIRST VENTURE.
27CHAPTER XXX. HOME AND FRIENDS.
28CHAPTER XXXIII. VISITORS.
29CHAPTER XXXVII. THE FIRST PROPOSAL.
30CHAPTER XXXIX. THE PICNIC.
31CHAPTER XLII. WHAT THE LADIES SAID.
32CHAPTER XLV. THE GUARDIANS.
33John Marsh's Millions
34CHAPTER I.
35CHAPTER V.
36CHAPTER VIII.
37CHAPTER XI.
38CHAPTER XIV.
39CHAPTER XVII.
40CHAPTER XX.
41Herbert Carter's Legacy; Or, the Inventor's Son
42Herbert Carter's Legacy; Or, the Inventor's Son
43CHAPTER I
44CHAPTER V
45CHAPTER X
46CHAPTER XV
47CHAPTER XX
48CHAPTER XXV
49CHAPTER XXX
50CHAPTER XXXV
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