Mr Scarborough's Family
Author(s): Anthony Trollope
Genre(s): General Fiction
Narrators: Michele Eaton, Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022), Barry O'Neill, Larry Beasley, Arnold, Brooke Cunningham, Acousticwave, Melora, Geoff Blanchard, Astrid Fingerhut, Rookieblue, TriciaG, Lynne T, Nick Whitley
Number of Chapters: 65
Length: 21 hours and 51 minutes
Language: English
MR SCARBOROUGH, wealthy owner of Tretton Park in Staffordshire, is dying. His eldest son and heir Mountjoy has gambled away his inheritance to avaricious money-lenders who hold post-obits to the entire value of the estate.Then Mr. Scarborough declares Mountjoy illegitimate. He claims that he only married his wife shortly before the birth of his second son Augustus, thus making him the real heir. Is this the truth ? - or a ploy to save the estate falling into the hands of some rather shady money lenders ? ....... (Summary by Annise)