Tristram of Blent is a novel by Anthony Hope about an old English family and its estate, Blent. It weaves questions of inheritance, duty, and loyalty around the house and those who claim it. Worth listening for Hope's readable storytelling and its portrait of family pride and social intrigue.
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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.
Opening of the book
Tristram of Blent BY THE SAME AUTHOR A Man of Mark Mr Witt's Widow Father Stafford A Change of Air Half a Hero The Prisoner of Zenda The God in the Car The Dolly Dialogues Comedies of Courtship The Chronicles of Count Antonio The Heart of Princess Osra Phroso Simon Dale Rupert of Hentzau The King's Mirror Quisante Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House By Anthony Hope New York McClure, Phillips & Co. MCMI
Copyright, 1900 and 1901, by ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS THIRD EDITION Trow Directory Printing & Bookbinding Company New York A Table of the Contents PAGE I A Suppressed Passage 1 II Mr Cholderton's Imp 10 III On Guard 22 IV She Could an' She Would 34 V The First Round 48 VI The Attraction of It 61 VII The Moment Draws Near 74 VIII Duty and Mr Neeld 88 IX The Man in Possession 101 X Behold the Heir! 114 XI A Phantom by the Pool 129 XII Fighters and Doubters 143 XIII In the Long Gallery 158 XIV The Very Same Day 173 XV An Inquisition Interrupted 190 XVI The New Life 205 XVII River Scenes and Bric-à-Brac 220 XVIII Conspirators and a Crux 233 XIX In the Matter of Blinkhampton 248 XX The Tristram Way—A Specimen 264 XXI The Persistence of Blent 279 XXII An Insult to the Blood 296 XXIII A Decree of Banishment 312 XXIV After the End of All 328
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