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Charlotte's Inheritance

by Mary Elizabeth BRADDON (1835 - 1915)

Book The First Chapter 2 In this Wide World I Stand Alone

A lesser known novel by the sensational English novelist, Charlotte's Inheritance opens in Paris in a dilapidated boarding house let to students by a scarcely adequate landlady. Enter Gustave, a young provincial, arriving in Paris supposedly to study law, but in reality as the proposed husband of the dour and unattractive daughter of his sponsor. Unable to tolerate the life arranged for him, Gustave quits the boarding house but recommends it to a mysterious young English widow who approaches him for assistance. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

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Listen next episodes of Charlotte's Inheritance:
Book The Eighth Chapter 1 A Dread Revelation , Book The Eighth Chapter 2 Phoenicians are Rising , Book The Eighth Chapter 3 The Sortes Virgilianae , Book The Fifth Chapter 1 Taken by Storm , Book The Fifth Chapter 2 Firm as a Book , Book The Fifth Chapter 3 Against Wind and Tide , Book The Fifth Chapter 4 Diana Asks for a Holiday , Book The Fifth Chapter 5 Assurance Doubly Sure , Book The First Chapter 3 Past Hope, and in Despair , Book The First Chapter 4 A Decree of Banishment , Book The Fourth Chapter 1 Halcyon Days , Book The Fourth Chapter 2 Captain Paget Awakens to a Sense of His Duty , Book The Fourth Chapter 3 What do we Here, my Heart and I? , Book The Fourth Chapter 4 Sharper than a Serpent's Tooth , Book The Ninth Chapter 1 Something Too Much , Book The Ninth Chapter 2 Dr. Jedd's Opinion , Book The Ninth Chapter 3 Non Dormit Judas , Book The Ninth Chapter 4 Counting the Cost , Book The Ninth Chapter 5 The Beginning of the End , Book The Ninth Chapter 6 Confusion Worse Confounded , Book The Ninth Chapter 7 There is a Word Will Priam Turn to Stone , Book The Second Chapter 1 The Fate of Susan Lenoble , Book The Second Chapter 2 Forgiven Too Late , Book The Second Chapter 3 Gustave The Second , Book The Seventh Chapter 1 The Beginning of Sorrow , Book The Seventh Chapter 2 Fading , Book The Seventh Chapter 3 Mrs. Woolper is Anxious , Book The Seventh Chapter 4 Valentine's Skeleton , Book The Seventh Chapter 5 At Harold's Hill , Book The Seventh Chapter 6 Desperate Measures , Book The Sixth At Cotenoir , Book The Tenth Chapter 1 Out of the Dark Valley , Book The Tenth Chapter 10 'According to their Deeds' , Book The Tenth Chapter 2 After the Wedding , Book The Tenth Chapter 3 Greek Against Greek , Book The Tenth Chapter 4 Only a Dream , Book The Tenth Chapter 5 Bohemian Independence , Book The Tenth Chapter 6 Beyond the Veil , Book The Tenth Chapter 7 Better than Gold , Book The Tenth Chapter 8 Lost Sight Of , Book The Tenth Chapter 9 Eteocles and Polynices , Book The Third Chapter 1 Chiefly Retrospective , Book The Third Chapter 2 Epistolary , Book The Third Chapter 3 Too Clever for a Catspaw , Book The Third Chapter 4 Captain Paget is Paternal , Book The Third Chapter 5 The Captain's Coadjutor