Found 11,950 results for "Inheritance and succession"
by William Beckford, Samuel Henley
VATHEK, ninth Caliph of the race of the Abassides, was the son of Motassem, and the grandson of Haroun al Raschid.
by Josephine Tey
Aunt Bee," said Jane, breathing heavily into her soup, "was Noah a cleverer back-room boy than Ulysses, or was Ulysses a...
by Sidney Sheldon
He was seated in the dark, alone, behind the desk of Hajib Kafir, staring unseeingly out of the dusty office window at t...
by Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Luis Stevenson
Although an old, consistent exile, the editor of the following pages revisits now and again the city of which he exults ...
by Rosamunde Pilcher
She sometimes thought that for her, Nancy Chamberlain, the most straightforward or innocent occupation was doomed to bec...
by Eckhart Tolle
Earth, 114 million years ago, one morning just after sunrise: The first flower ever to appear on the planet opens up to ...
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Cedric himself knew nothing whatever about it.
by Rick Riordan
Five minutes before she died, Grace Cahill changed her will.
by Booth Tarkington
Major Amberson had "made a fortune" in 1873, when other people were losing fortunes, and the magnificence of the Amberso...
by Ellen Raskin
The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!
by George Barr McCutcheon
"The Little Sons of the Rich" were gathered about the long table in Pettingill's studio.
by Jeffrey Archer
"IT'S A FAKE," said the Russian leader, staring down at the small exquisite painting he held in his hands.