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A Collector's Edition of 47 Storybooks About Inheritance - Tales of Estates Lost Wills Family Secrets Heredity and the Burdens of Legacy - cover

A Collector's Edition of 47 Storybooks About Inheritance - Tales of Estates Lost Wills Family Secrets Heredity and the Burdens of Legacy

WALTER BAGEHOT, Grant Allen, L. T. Meade, Edward Stratemeyer, Richard Marsh, Mathew White, E. F. Benson, P. G. Wodehouse, G. A. Henty, Janet D. Wheeler, Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Talbot Baines Reed, David Whitelaw, Charles Clark Munn, Mrs. Oliphant, Charles Klein, Arthur Hornblow, T. W. Speight, John Reed Scott, Harold Avery, A. S. Packard, William Bateson, V. Sackville-West, Christabel R. Coleridge, Headon Hill, Paul Popenoe, Roswell H. Johnson, Charles Benedict Davenport, Jack Steele, A. J. Foster, Edith E. Cuthell, E. C. Kenyon, Henry H. Goddard, Dorothea Moore, Alex. McVeigh Mrs. Miller, Mary H. Debenham, Horatio Alger, George de Horne Vaizey, Honoré de Balzac

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Summary

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.
Available since: 03/04/2025.
Print length: 2000 pages.

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