18 books like The Magnificent Ambersons

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Orley Farm Anthony Trollope · 1861 · ★ 4.0 · 610p · ≈ 20h · Demanding When Joseph Mason of Groby Park, Yorkshire, died, he left his estate to his family. A codicil to his will, however, left Orley Farm (near London) to his much younger second wife and infant son. The will and the codicil were in her handwriting, and there were three witnesses, one of whom was no longer alive. A bitterly fought court case confirmed the codicil. Twenty years pass. Lady Mason lives… Shares: Mothers and sons, Inheritance and succession, Domestic fiction

The Whiteoak brothers Mazo de la Roche · 1953 · 277p · ≈ 9h · Moderate The Jalna household is electric with secrecy and excited expectation. It is now 1923, and while young love blossoms between Pheasant and Piers, Aunt Augusta's friend, Dilly Warkworth, arrives at Jalna and tries to snare the heart of Renny. Eden, meets a persuasive mining broker whose new venture promises miracles. Shares: Domestic fiction, Families

The Wapshot Scandal John Cheever · 1964 · ★ 4.0 · 309p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Tells of the Wapshot family as they carom around the world with considerable velocity, at times veering into outbreaks of wild hilarity. Shares: Domestic fiction, Families

Sons Pearl S. Buck · 1932 · ★ 3.9 · 467p · ≈ 15h · Challenging "Wang Lung lay dying." Thus the action of SONS begins immediately after that of the last chapter of THE GOOD EARTH. This new novel carries on the saga of the house of Wang, of Pear Blossom and the aging Lotus, of the three sons of Wang Lung, their wives and their children. The chief character is the youngest son, Wang The Tiger, leader of men, who through raids and sieges and pitched battles… Shares: Children of the rich, Inheritance and succession, Families

The Ravenscar Dynasty Barbara Taylor Bradford · 1867 · 496p · ≈ 16h · Challenging Devastated by the deaths of three family members in a suspicious fire, young Edward Deravenel battles his cousin for control of a business empire that was usurped from his branch of the family sixty years earlier. Shares: Inheritance and succession, Domestic fiction

His Whole Life Elizabeth Hay · 2015 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate 1 volume ; 20 cm Shares: Mothers and sons, Families

Flirting with Pete Barbara Delinsky · 2003 · ★ 3.9 · 355p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Psychologist Casey Ellis never met her father -- but that didn't stop her from following in his professional footsteps. Now he has died, and Casey is shocked to have inherited his elegant Boston town house, complete with a maid and a handsome, enigmatic gardener. When she finds a manuscript that could be a novel, a journal, or a case study of one of her father's patients in her new home, she… Shares: Inheritance and succession in fiction, Inheritance and succession

The dead secret Wilkie Collins · 1857 · ★ 3.7 · 265p · ≈ 8h · Challenging The Dead Secret is a novel published by Wilkie Collins, first in 1857 as a series in Charles Dickens Household Words weekly magazine and later the same year as a book. Much like his later novel The Woman in White (1860), it can be considered one of the earliest example of a sensation novel, as it contains themes of illegitimacy, blackmail, and false identity. Shares: Inheritance and succession in fiction, Inheritance and succession

Case Histories Kate Atkinson · 2004 · ★ 3.9 · 411p · ≈ 13h · Moderate "Case One: Olivia Land, youngest and most beloved of the Land girls, goes missing in the night and is never seen again. More than thirty years later, two of her surviving sisters, each achingly lonely in her own way, reunite when their cruel and distant father dies. There, among the clutter of their childhood home, they unearth a shocking clue to Olivia's disappearance." "Case Two: All of Theo's… Shares: Loss, Domestic fiction

Mr. Scarborough's Family Anthony Trollope · 1883 · 643p · ≈ 21h · Demanding It will be necessary, for the purpose of my story, that I shall go back more than once from the point at which it begins, so that I may explain with the least amount of awkwardness the things as they occurred, which led up to the incidents that I am about to tell; and I may as well say that these first four chapters of the book - though they may be thought to be the most interesting of them all… Shares: Inheritance and succession, Domestic fiction

The Hamilton Case Michelle de Kretser · 1970 · 312p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "The place is Ceylon, the time the 1930s. Set amid tea plantations and jungle, decay, corruption and the backwash of empire, this gripping, nuanced novel has a pitch-perfect ear for the comedy and a sharp eye for the tragedy of a world at the end of its tether." "Sam Obeysekere - 'obey' by name and by nature - is a Ceylonese lawyer, a perfect product of empire. His family once had wealth and… Shares: Loss, Mothers and sons

Washington Square Henry James · 1880 · ★ 3.7 · 183p · ≈ 6h · Challenging With a new afterword by Michael CunninghamWhat Catherine Sloper lacks in brains and beauty, she makes up for by being "very good." The handsome Morris Townsend would do anything to win her hand-even if it means pretending that he loves the homely ingenue, and cares nothing for her opulent wealth. Throughout time, the women of the world always had limited rights when it came to anything. You… Shares: Children of the rich, Inheritance and succession

The silver spoon John Galsworthy · 1921 · ★ 4.1 · 315p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Books for All Kinds of Readers Read HowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead are optimized by increasing the font size and spacing between the words and the letters. We partner with leading publishers around the globe. Our goal is to have accessible editions simultaneously released with publishers' new… Shares: Domestic fiction, Families

Sanctuary Edith Wharton · 1903 · ★ 4.0 · 80p · ≈ 2h · Challenging "Kate Orme is a young woman whose illusions of marital bliss are shattered when she comes face to face with the dark secret harbored by her fiance, the wealthy and deceptively ebullient Denis. Kate decides to go ahead and marry Denis, however, as a selfless gesture to protect any children he may conceive from inheriting their father's moral weakness. The couple does have a child, Dick, and in a… Shares: Mothers and sons, Domestic fiction

Ruth (volume II) Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell · 1853 · ★ 4.5 · 458p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Ruth Volume 2 By Elizabeth Gaskell A sensitive portrayal of relationships within small towns and an exploration of seduction and illegitimacy within a small Dissenting community where tolerance and rigid morality clash. Shares: Mothers and sons, Domestic fiction

Evening Star Larry McMurtry · 1992 · ★ 3.9 · 624p · ≈ 20h · Moderate Een ruimdenkende bejaarde dame uit Texas ondervindt de problemen van het ouder worden. Vervolg op "Terms of endearment." Shares: Domestic fiction, Families

The Italian Girl Iris Murdoch · 1964 · ★ 4.1 · 198p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Edmund has escaped from his family into a lonely life.Returning for his mother's funeral he finds himself involved in the old, awful problems together with some new ones. He also rediscovers the eternal family servant, the ever-changing Italian girl, who has always 'a second mother' This particular return to mother holds some surprises for Edmund. Shares: Domestic fiction, Families

Perfect Nightmare John Saul · 2005 · ★ 4.0 · 339p · ≈ 11h · Moderate If you open your house to strangers, who knows who might come in. And what they might be after. Or whom. Now, ponder the unthinkable and surrender to your darkest dread, as sinister storyteller extraordinaire John Saul weaves a heart-stopping tale of lurking terror and twisted intent.Every parent's nightmare becomes reality for Kara Marshall when her daughter, Lindsay, vanishes from her bedroom… Shares: Loss, Domestic fiction

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