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  1. Paul Marchand, F.M.C.
    Autor*in: Chesnutt, Charles W.
    Erschienen: [1999]
    Verlag:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781400864959
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    Schlagworte: Englische Literatur Amerikas; Inheritance and succession / Fiction; Passing (Identity) / Fiction; Race relations / Fiction; Intermarriage / Fiction; Men, White / Fiction; FICTION / General; Inheritance and succession; Intermarriage; Men, White; Race relations
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (223p.)
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    Evoking the atmosphere of early-nineteenth-century New Orleans and the deadly aftermath of the San Domingo slave revolution, this historical novel begins as its protagonist puzzles over the seemingly prophetic dream of an aged black praline seller in the famous Place d'Armes. Paul Marchand, a free man of color living in New Orleans in the 1820s, is despised by white society for being a quadroon, yet he is a proud, wealthy, well-educated man. In this city where great wealth and great poverty exist side by side, the richest Creole in town lies dying. The family of the aged Pierre Beaurepas eagerly, indeed greedily, awaits disposition of his wealth. As the bombshell of Beaurepas's will explodes, an old woman's dream takes on new meaning, and Marchand is drawn ever more closely into contact with a violently racist family.

    Bringing to life the entwined racial cultures of New Orleans society, Charles Chesnutt not only writes an exciting tale of adventure and mystery but also makes a provocative comment on the nature of racial identity, self-worth, and family loyalty.Although he was the first African-American writer of fiction to gain acceptance by America's white literary establishment, Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) has been eclipsed in popularity by other writers who later rose to prominence during the Harlem Renaissance. Recently, this pathbreaking American writer has been receiving an increasing amount of attention. Two of his novels, Paul Marchand, F.M.C. (completed in 1921) and The Quarry (completed in 1928), were considered too incendiary to be published during Chesnutt's lifetime. Their publication now provides us not only the opportunity to read these two books previously missing from Chesnutt's oeuvre but also the chance to appreciate better the intellectual progress of this literary pioneer.

    Chesnutt was the author of many other works, including The Conjure Woman & Other Conjure Tales, The House Behind the Cedars, The Marrow Tradition, and Mandy Oxendine. Princeton University Press recently published To Be an Author: Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1889-1905 (edited by Joseph R. McElrath, Jr., and Robert C. Leitz, III).Originally published in 1999.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905
  2. Dunbar
    Autor*in: St. Aubyn, Edward
    Erschienen: 2017
    Verlag:  Hogarth, London ; New York

    "Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global media corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he hands over care of the corporation to his two eldest daughters, Abby and Megan, but as relations sour he starts to doubt the wisdom of... mehr

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    "Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global media corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he hands over care of the corporation to his two eldest daughters, Abby and Megan, but as relations sour he starts to doubt the wisdom of past decisions. Now imprisoned in Meadowmeade, an upscale sanatorium in rural England, with only a demented alcoholic comedian as company, Dunbar starts planning his escape. As he flees into the hills, his family is hot on his heels. But who will find him first, his beloved youngest daughter, Florence, or the tigresses Abby and Megan, so keen to divest him of his estate? Edward St Aubyn is renowned for his masterwork, the five Melrose novels, which dissect with savage and beautiful precision the agonies of family life. His take on King Lear, Shakespeare's most devastating family story, is an excoriating novel for and of our times an examination of power, money and the value of forgiveness

     
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    ISBN: 9781101904282; 1101904283
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    9781101904282
    RVK Klassifikation: HN 9990
    Schriftenreihe: Hogarth Shakespeare
    Weitere Schlagworte: Fathers and daughters / Fiction; Inheritance and succession / Fiction; Aging parents / Fiction; Fathers and daughters / Fiction; Inheritance and succession / Fiction; Aging parents / Fiction
    Umfang: 244 Seiten, 22 cm
  3. Washington Square
    Autor*in: James, Henry
    Erschienen: 2022
    Verlag:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. Published in two volumes in 1880, Washington Square... mehr

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    The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. Published in two volumes in 1880, Washington Square dramatises the plight of Catherine Sloper, a rich heiress, whose father, a successful doctor, identifies her one suitor, Morris Townsend, as a fortune-hunter. The novel thus draws on the sentimental tradition, which it develops with subtle, sympathetic irony, in a realist direction. This edition is the first to provide a full account of the context in which the book was composed and received, and to include the original illustrations by Punch-cartoonist George Du Maurier. Extensive explanatory notes enable modern readers to understand its nuanced historical, cultural and literary references, and its complex textual history

     
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    Beteiligt: Buelens, Gert (Hrsg.); Griffin, Susan M. (Hrsg.)
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780511782268
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    RVK Klassifikation: HT 5850
    Schlagworte: Inheritance and succession / Fiction; Fathers and daughters / Fiction; Children of the rich / Fiction; Beauty, Personal / Fiction; Young women / Fiction; Courtship / Fiction
    Weitere Schlagworte: James, Henry (1843-1916): Washington Square
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (lxxxv, 236 Seiten)
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  4. Guy Mannering
    Autor*in: Scott, Walter
    Erschienen: 2003
    Verlag:  Penguin, London [u.a.]

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    Universitätsbibliothek Passau
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    Beteiligt: Garside, Peter (Hrsg.)
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    ISBN: 014043657X; 9780140436570
    Auflage/Ausgabe: Published with revised critical apparatus in Penguin Classics
    Schriftenreihe: Penguin classics
    Weitere Schlagworte: Astrologers / Fiction; Inheritance and succession / Fiction; Disinheritance / Fiction; Scotland / Fiction
    Umfang: xlv, 459 Seiten, 20cm
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    Published in the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley novels by the Edinburgh University Press 1999

    Originally published: 1815
  5. Dodge Rose
    Autor*in: Cox, Jack
    Erschienen: 2016
    Verlag:  Dalkey Archive Press, Victoria, TX

    Eliza travels to Sydney to deal with the estate of her Aunt Dodge, and finds Maxine, a hitherto unknown cousin, occupying Dodge's apartment. When legal complications derail plans to live it up on their inheritance, the women's lives become consumed... mehr

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    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Eliza travels to Sydney to deal with the estate of her Aunt Dodge, and finds Maxine, a hitherto unknown cousin, occupying Dodge's apartment. When legal complications derail plans to live it up on their inheritance, the women's lives become consumed by absurd attempts to deal with Australian tax law, as well their own mounting boredom and squalor. The most astonishing debut novel of the decade, Dodge Rose calls to mind Henry Green in its skewed use of colloquial speech, Joyce in its love of inventories, and William Gaddis in its virtuoso lampooning of law, high finance, and national myth

     
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  6. Patternmaster
    Autor*in: Butler, Octavia E.
    Erschienen: 2020
    Verlag:  Headline, London

    The Patternmaster is all powerful. His every thought can control, heal or destroy. The only threat to his command are the Clayarks, a society of people born out of terrible disease, who now live enslaved by the ruling Patternists or in the wild.... mehr

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    The Patternmaster is all powerful. His every thought can control, heal or destroy. The only threat to his command are the Clayarks, a society of people born out of terrible disease, who now live enslaved by the ruling Patternists or in the wild. Coransee, son of the Patternmaster, wants the throne and will stop at nothing to succeed his father, even if it means killing every one of his siblings. But when one brother - his rival and his equal - takes refuge amongst the Clayarks, a war ensues that will change the world forever

     
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    Quelle: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    ISBN: 9781472281043
    Auflage/Ausgabe: [New edition]
    Weitere Schlagworte: Telepathy / Fiction; Inheritance and succession / Fiction; Healers / Fiction; Brothers / Fiction; Télépathie / Romans, nouvelles, etc; Successions et héritages / Romans, nouvelles, etc; Guérisseurs / Romans, nouvelles, etc; Frères / Romans, nouvelles, etc; Brothers; Healers; Inheritance and succession; Telepathy; Fiction; Science fiction; Science fiction
    Umfang: 191 Seiten, 20 cm
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    Includes a reading group guide

    Originally published: New York : Doubleday, 1976
  7. Ralph the heir
    Autor*in: Trollope, Anthony
    Erschienen: 2007
    Verlag:  Nonsuch, Stroud [u.a.]

    Standort:
    Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg, Hauptbibliothek
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    ISBN: 9781845883751; 1845883756
    RVK Klassifikation: HL 4783
    Schriftenreihe: Nonsuch classics
    Schlagworte: Inheritance and succession / Fiction; Inheritance and succession
    Umfang: 544 p., 17 cm