inheritance and succession

April Taylor, her parents dead, estranged from her older sister, and alone after the death of the uncle with whom she had been living, is taken in by a kind elderly woman and her deaf granddaughter, and through their friendship and love learns to trust herself--a quality that comes in handy when danger appears on the doorstep.

King Lear foolishly disinherits his favorite daughter when she speaks out against him and splits his kingdom between his other two daughters who are secretly plotting against him.

In New Hampshire in 1777, Dick Dudgeon's father dies. Called back home to the unhappy family he revolted against years ago, Dick finds he's been named heir, much to the horror of his religious mother. To complicate matters, the British have arrived.

An adaptation of the classic tale from Charles Dickens, in which Pip, an orphan in Victorian England, is plucked from a life of poverty and informed he is to be educated and reared as a gentleman, courtesy of an unknown benefactor.

With her wealthy aunt dying, Tori is called back for a family reunion. One family member seems interested in removing anyone who might inherit part of her aunt's fortune.

Two sisters of opposing temperaments share the pangs of tragic love, and their mutual suffering brings a closer understanding between the two sisters, and true love finally triumphs.

Contains two comedies by Ben Jonson, "Volpone" and "The Alchemist" that portray the greed, gullibility, and pretension of seventeenth-century London society.

Presents the text of the 1908 New York Edition of the novel in which high-spirited American, Isabel Archer, travels to England to find romance, heartbreak, and betrayal, and includes a selection of autobiographical excerpts, reviews, and criticism.

Jewelry store owner Moe Rosen is welcomed into the community of West Indian immigrants that has taken over his Brooklyn neighborhood after he saves a Haitian woman from a brutal mugging, but his involvement in the lives of his new friends eventually leads him and those he loves into grave danger.

An elderly count returns home to Spain following the death of his son and is introduced to his two charming granddaughters, but he faces a difficult dilemma when he learns one of the girls was not fathered by his son and must decide which of them is the true heir.