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THE PRODIGALS AND THEIR INHERITANCE
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
In a London household where pride and expectation clash with restless ambition, a stern father wrestles with the disappointment of two wayward sons. His daughter Winifred, caught between filial duty and a yearning for compassion, negotiates the uneasy truce between family loyalty and the harsh judgments of their patriarch. As the family prepares a reluctant journey for the prodigal brothers, tensions flare, revealing the fragile bonds that hold them together.
Against this backdrop of strained conversations and lingering regrets, the narrative explores how love, resentment, and social pressure shape each character’s choices. The father’s swirling doubts and the daughter’s quiet determination hint at deeper secrets yet to surface. Listeners will be drawn into the charged atmosphere of a home on the brink, where every word spoken carries the weight of inheritance—both material and emotional.
Language
en
Duration
~5 hours (304K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive)
Release date
Jun 24, 2020
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1828–1897
A remarkably prolific Scottish writer, Mrs. Oliphant moved easily between domestic novels, history, biography, literary criticism, and supernatural fiction. Her sharp portraits of everyday life helped make works such as Miss Marjoribanks and the Carlingford novels enduring favorites.
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