TY - BOOK AU - James,Henry TI - The Spoils of Poynton AV - PS PY - 2010/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Inheritance and succession -- Fiction KW - England -- Fiction KW - Domestic fiction KW - Country homes -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spoils_of_Poynton; Release date is 2010-08-02; Produced by Brian Foley, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.); Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Spoils of Poynton" by Henry James is a novel first published in 1896-1897. It centers on a magnificent collection of art and furniture at an English country house and the three people caught in conflict over it. Mrs. Gereth, a widow who spent decades assembling the treasures, faces losing them when her son Owen plans to marry someone she considers tasteless. Fleda Vetch, an intelligent young woman, becomes entangled in the family drama—sympathetic to Mrs. Gereth yet falling in love with Owen herself. The struggle intensifies as loyalties shift and passions clash. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33325 ER -