Martin's Inheritance Or, The Story of a Life's Chances. A Temperance Tale
Author : Elizabeth Van Sommer
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Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,23 MB
Release : 1887
Category : English fiction
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Author : Elizabeth Van Sommer
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Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,23 MB
Release : 1887
Category : English fiction
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Author : Elizabeth Van Sommer
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Page : 233 pages
File Size : 36,52 MB
Release : 1910
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Author : Elizabeth Van Sommer
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Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,96 MB
Release : 1889
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Author : E. Van Sommer
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Page : pages
File Size : 14,59 MB
Release : 1892
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Author : Varian Johnson
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 49,31 MB
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545952794
A Coretta Scott King Author Honor and Boston Globe / Horn Book Honor winner!"Powerful.... Johnson writes about the long shadows of the past with such ambition that any reader with a taste for mystery will appreciate the puzzle Candice and Brandon must solve." -- The New York Times Book ReviewWhen Candice finds a letter in an old attic in Lambert, South Carolina, she isn't sure she should read it. It's addressed to her grandmother, who left the town in shame. But the letter describes a young woman. An injustice that happened decades ago. A mystery enfolding its writer. And the fortune that awaits the person who solves the puzzle.So with the help of Brandon, the quiet boy across the street, she begins to decipher the clues. The challenge will lead them deep into Lambert's history, full of ugly deeds, forgotten heroes, and one great love; and deeper into their own families, with their own unspoken secrets. Can they find the fortune and fulfill the letter's promise before the answers slip into the past yet again?
Author : Sampson Low
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Page : 1630 pages
File Size : 50,63 MB
Release : 1911
Category : English imprints
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Page : 922 pages
File Size : 43,62 MB
Release : 1887
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Author : Janny Scott
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 32,88 MB
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0399185038
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR "[A] poignant addition to the literature of moneyed glamour and its inevitable tarnish and decay…like something out of Fitzgerald or Waugh."—The New Yorker A parable for the new age of inequality: part family history, part detective story, part history of a vanishing class, and a vividly compelling exploration of the degree to which an inheritance—financial, cultural, genetic—conspired in one person's self-destruction. Land, houses, and money tumbled from one generation to the next on the eight-hundred-acre estate built by Scott's investment banker great-grandfather on Philadelphia's Main Line. There was an obligation to protect it, a license to enjoy it, a duty to pass it on—but it was impossible to know in advance how all that extraordinary good fortune might influence the choices made over a lifetime. In this warmly felt tale of an American family's fortunes, journalist Janny Scott excavates the rarefied world that shaped her charming, unknowable father, Robert Montgomery Scott, and provides an incisive look at the weight of inheritance, the tenacity of addiction, and the power of buried secrets. Some beneficiaries flourished, like Scott's grandmother, Helen Hope Scott, a socialite and celebrated horsewoman said to have inspired Katherine Hepburn's character in the play and Academy Award-winning film The Philadelphia Story. For others, including the author's father, she concludes, the impact was more complex. Bringing her journalistic talents, light touch, and crystalline prose to this powerful story of a child's search to understand a parent's puzzling end, Scott also raises questions about our new Gilded Age. New fortunes are being amassed, new estates are being born. Does anyone wonder how it will all play out, one hundred years hence?
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Page : 824 pages
File Size : 50,75 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Arts
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Page : 362 pages
File Size : 16,2 MB
Release : 1888
Category : American literature
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