Inheritance and succession -- Fiction books

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

The novel opens with a detailed account of the Dashwood family’s long‑standing estate in Sussex, introducing…

The Mysteries of Udolpho

Ann Ward Radcliffe

The opening places the reader in 1584 on the banks of the Garonne, where the modest château of Monsieur St.

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

The novel is a social comedy of manners set in early‑nineteenth‑century England, where the lives of young…

Bleak House

Charles Dickens

Bleak House is a sprawling Victorian novel that begins amid a relentless rainstorm on the desolate estate of…

The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins’s opening places the reader in a bleak, windswept churchyard where a hidden narrator watches a…

Gevoel en verstand

Jane Austen

The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole

The Castle of Otranto is the first full‑blown gothic novel, a horror tale that intertwines the anxieties of…

The Missing Will

Agatha Christie

The story opens with Miss Violet Marsh, a determined young woman, seeking the help of Hercule Poirot to…

The Wandering Jew — Complete

Eugène Sue

The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1

Henry James

The Portrait of a Lady, Volume 1 is a work of psychological fiction that opens with an extensive portrait of…

Tristram of Blent: An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House

Anthony Hope

The work is a Victorian‑era novel that treats the tangled affairs of inheritance, family duty and youthful…

In Jeopardy

Van Tassel Sutphen

In In Jeopardy Van Tassel Sutphen weaves a hybrid of inheritance drama, romance, and mystery set against a…

The Scourge of God: A Romance of Religious Persecution

John Bloundelle-Burton

The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn

J. W. Keyworth

How It All Came Round

L. T. Meade

The Mystics: A Novel

Katherine Cecil Thurston

The Birthright

Joseph Hocking

Our Mutual Friend

Charles Dickens

The Beautiful and Damned

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Little Dorrit

Charles Dickens

The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus

Horatio Alger, Jr.

Howards End

E. M. Forster

The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2

Henry James

Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer — Complete

Walter Scott