Inheritance A Novel
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The Inheritance
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Author : Annabel Dilke
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2005-10
The Inheritance written by Annabel Dilke and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10 with Fiction categories.
In an aristocratic world of old money and grand houses, one family learns the painful cost of keeping dark secrets Marvelous novel....every word rings true. Rosamunde Pilcher, author of Coming Home At their magnificent estate, the Chandlers cling fiercely to the trappings of aristocracy in 1960s England. Beautiful eighteen-year-old Alice is marrying the heir to another fortune and her sister Eve has won a place at Oxford. But their charmed lives are not all they seem. Alice is having an affair with a handsome but disreputable lover. Her father is a philanderer whose chronic infidelity pushes his wife Felicity into the arms of another man. And Eves academic future is cut short by an act of betrayal. Nearly forty years later, Felicity remembers that long ago wedding day when their lives changed forever.
Inheritance And Speculation In Victorian Fiction
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Author : Noa Reich
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2024-06-30
Inheritance And Speculation In Victorian Fiction written by Noa Reich and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Inheritance and Speculation in Victorian Fiction: Finance, Family, and the Law investigates how Victorian fiction reconfigures the narrative and social conventions of inheritance. While recent criticism has concentrated on this fiction’s engagement with newer financial forms, this book contends that Victorian novels both attest to the persistence of inheritance and reveal its unsettling affinities with speculative forms. Focusing on Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847), Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend (1864-65), Wilkie Collins’s Armadale¬ (1866), and George Eliot’s Middlemarch (1871-72), each chapter explores a recurring pattern of contrast and conflation between inheritance and financial speculation. Taking an interdisciplinary historical and formal approach, Reich shows how this pattern gives narrative shape to concerns that were also emerging in contemporary political and legal debates around succession, bequest, landed estates, and conceptions of the family. Attending to the novels’ concrete and figurative allusions to these forms as well as their tentative alternatives, Reich also illustrates how the novels’ self-reflexive subversion of both characters and readers’ expectations based on inheritance conventions challenge our modes of reading. Inheritance and Speculation thus not only illuminates the integral role played by inheritance in Victorian fiction’s mediation of the credit economy, but also offers a new understanding of the complex role of convention in this fiction.
Inheritance
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Author : Evelyn Toynton
language : en
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Release Date : 2019-09-17
Inheritance written by Evelyn Toynton and has been published by Other Press, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-17 with Fiction categories.
In this luminous novel about romance and illusion—and what's left of love when they're stripped away—an American Anglophile is drawn into the lives of a disintegrating aristocratic family. After the sudden death of her husband, Annie Devereaux flees to England, site of the nostalgic fantasies her father spun for her before he deserted the family. A chance encounter in London leads Annie to cancel her return to New York and move in with Julian, the disaffected, moody son of Helena Denby, a famous British geneticist. As their relationship progresses, Annie meets Julian's sisters Isabel and Sasha, each of them fragile in her own way, and becomes infatuated with visions of their idyllic childhood in England's West Country. But the more she uncovers about Julian's past, the more he explodes into rage and violence. Finally tearing herself away, Annie winds up adrift in London, rescued from her loneliness only when she and Isabel form an unexpected bond. Slowly, with Isabel as her reluctant guide, Annie learns of the emotional devastation that Helena's warped arrogance, her monstrous will to dominate, inflicted on her children. The family who once embodied Annie's idealized conception of England is actually caught in a nightmare of betrayal and guilt that spirals inexorably into tragedy.
Inheritance Matters
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Author : Suzanne Lenon
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-09-21
Inheritance Matters written by Suzanne Lenon and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-21 with Law categories.
This book makes a compelling case for placing the social and legal practices of inheritance centre stage to make sense of fundamental questions of our time. Drawing on historical, literary, sociological, and legal analysis, this rich collection of original, interdisciplinary and international contributions demonstrates how inheritance is and has always been about far more than the set of legal processes for the distribution of wealth and property upon death. The contributions range from exploring the intractable tensions underlying family disputes and the legal and political debates about taxation, to revisiting literary plots in the past and presenting a contemporary artistic challenge of heirship. With an introduction that presents a critical mapping of the field of inheritance studies, this collection reveals the complexity of ideas about 'passing on', 'legacies', and 'heirlooms'; troubles some of the enduring consequences of 'charitable bequests', 'family money', and 'estate planning; and, deepens our understanding of the intimate and political practices of inheritance.
The Novels Of Susan Edmonstone Ferrier Marriage V 3 4 The Inheritance
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Author : Susan Ferrier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
The Novels Of Susan Edmonstone Ferrier Marriage V 3 4 The Inheritance written by Susan Ferrier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with English fiction categories.
Work Inheritance And Deserts In Joseph Conrad S Fiction
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Author : Evelyn Tsz Yan Chan
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-08-19
Work Inheritance And Deserts In Joseph Conrad S Fiction written by Evelyn Tsz Yan Chan and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book focuses on the complex relationships between inheritance, work, and desert in literature. It shows how, from its manifestation in the trope of material inheritance and legacy in Victorian fiction, “inheritance” gradually took on additional, more modern meanings in Joseph Conrad’s fiction on work and self-making. In effect, the emphasis on inheritance as referring to social rank and wealth acquired through birth shifted to a focus on talent, ability, and merit, often expressed through work. The book explores how Conrad’s fiction engaged with these changing modes of inheritance and work, and the resulting claims of desert they led to. Uniquely, it argues that Conrad’s fiction critiques claims of desert arising from both work and inheritance, while also vividly portraying the emotional costs and existential angst that these beliefs in desert entailed. The argument speaks to and illuminates today’s debates on moral desert arising from work and inheritance, in particular from meritocratic ideals. Its new approach to Conrad’s works will appeal to students and scholars of Conrad and literary modernism, as well as a wider audience interested in philosophical and social debates on desert deriving from inheritance and work.
The Inheritance Games
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Author : Jennifer Lynn Barnes
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2020-09-01
The Inheritance Games written by Jennifer Lynn Barnes and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-01 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
OVER 6 MILLION COPIES SOLD OF THE #1 BESTSELLING SERIES! Don't miss this New York Times bestselling "impossible to put down" (Buzzfeed) novel with deadly stakes, thrilling twists, and juicy secrets—perfect for fans of One of Us is Lying and Knives Out. Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why—or even who Tobias Hawthorne is. To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man's touch—and his love of puzzles, riddles, and codes. Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed. This includes the four Hawthorne grandsons: dangerous, magnetic, brilliant boys who grew up with every expectation that one day, they would inherit billions. Heir apparent Grayson Hawthorne is convinced that Avery must be a conwoman, and he's determined to take her down. His brother, Jameson, views her as their grandfather's last hurrah: a twisted riddle, a puzzle to be solved. Caught in a world of wealth and privilege with danger around every turn, Avery will have to play the game herself just to survive. ***Don’t miss a moment of The Inheritance Games Saga, including the Grandest Game, the thrilling new series set in the world of the Inheritance Games. Reading them all? The ideal reading order is: The Inheritance Games, The Hawthorne Legacy, The Final Gambit, The Brothers Hawthorne, The Grandest Game, Games Untold, Glorious Rivals, and The Same Backward as Forward. Looking for more unputdownable reads from Jennifer Lynn Barnes? Check out The Naturals series (The Naturals, Killer Instinct, All In, Bad Blood, and the enovella, Twelve), The Debutantes duet (Little White Lies, Deadly Little Scandals), and The Lovely and the Lost.
Inheritance
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Author : Balli Kaur Jaswal
language : en
Publisher: Epigram Books
Release Date : 2013
Inheritance written by Balli Kaur Jaswal and has been published by Epigram Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Fiction categories.
In 1971, a teenage girl briefly disappears from her house in the middle of the night, only to return a different person, causing fissures that threaten to fracture her Punjabi Sikh family. As Singapore’s political and social landscapes evolve, the family must cope with shifting attitudes toward castes, youth culture, sex and gender roles, identity and belonging. Inheritance examines each family member’s struggles to either preserve or buck tradition in the face of an ever-changing nation. Reader Reviews: “A rich and gorgeous portrait of a family—and nation—struggling against history, culture, and the grief of smashed hope.” —Emily Maguire, author of Fishing for Tigers “An exceptional debut. Balli Kaur Jaswal reveals the conflicts at the heart of one Punjabi family with such compassion, such accuracy, the effect is compelling. Her gifts are immense.” —Andrew Cowan, author of Pig “Inheritance is mesmerising. Balli Kaur Jaswal’s voice is rich in detail and emotional truth. I was carried away with the characters’ hopes and hurts. The book reminded me of the weight of family, but also how lost we are without it.” —Simmone Howell, author of Everything Beautiful “A vivid, compelling tale of selfhood, fraught blood ties and the devastating weight of change.” —Meg Mundell, author of Black Glass “Inheritance is a moving and assured debut, a perfectly balanced allegory, where the individual struggles of a family are underscored by the larger picture of nation-building and national identity. Balli Kaur Jaswal writes with compassion, intelligence and an empathetic eye, transporting the reader effortlessly through time and between points of view.” —Leanne Hall, author of This Is Shyness “Jaswal’s wonderful debut didn’t merely transport me to a country I knew nothing about, or introduce me to a family the likes of which I’d never meet. She made me long for her Singapore like a lost home, and miss her characters like departed friends. What an extraordinary thing for a novel to do.” —Alexander Yates, author of Moondogs
Dickensian Affects
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Author : Joshua Gooch
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-10-08
Dickensian Affects written by Joshua Gooch and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Dickensian Affects: Charles Dickens and Feelings of Precarity, Joshua Gooch argues that Dickens’s novels offer models of feeling that illuminate the dissensions that accompany life’s precariousness under capitalism. By examining the role of violence, anxiety, surprise, and suspense in Dickens’s novels, Gooch explores how they represent and shape emotions to create rhythms specific to their historical moment. To unearth Dickensian affects, Gooch examines how some of Dickens’s novels yoke elements in their difference to signal different kinds and ways of feeling, what he terms affective form. This patterning of elements links a text’s ways of feeling to its conjuncture and locates lines of flight that allow its representations of emotion to become something else. The violence of Oliver Twist links its satire of the New Poor Law to the post-abolition period of apprenticeship in the West Indies. The pervasive anxiety of The Old Curiosity Shop links Nell’s journey to arguments economic inequality focused on questions of inheritance and land reform. The surprise of David Copperfield binds its interests in questions of character and trust to Britain’s professional world and credit markets. And the suspense of Great Expectations gestures toward a sense of shame and demand for new models of masculine character also seen in the Volunteer rifle militias. Dickensian Affects argues that for Dickens, questions of feeling reveal the precarity of feeling itself. For Dickens, to feel is to know the possibility of feeling otherwise.
Catalogue Of Printed Books In The Library Of The British Museum
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Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
Catalogue Of Printed Books In The Library Of The British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with English literature categories.