After the death of her much older husband, in a bitterly fought court case Lady Mason is accused of forging his will to give her son the property of Orley Farm. Examining the imperfect workings of the legal system, Orley Farm was considered by Trollope's friends as 'the best I have written'.
The Return of the Native (Oxford World’s Classics)
✍ Scribed by Thomas Hardy
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 413 KB
- Edition
- New ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780192840721
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