The Heir

<p><I>The Heir</I> (1922) is a novel by Vita Sackville-West. While she is most widely recognized as the lover of English novelist Virginia Woolf Sackville-West was a popular and gifted poet playwright and novelist in her own right. A prominent lesbian and bohemian figure Sackville-West was also the daughter of an English Baron granting her a unique and often divided perspective on life in the twentieth century. <I>The Heir</I> her third novel is a semi-autobiographical tale of family tradition and romance. They had gone they and their talk of mortgages rents acreage tenants possible buyers building lots and sales by auction or private treaty! Chase stood on the bridge above the moat watching their departure. Mr. Chase is an insurance salesman by trade a successful modern man who just so happens to stand in line to inherit Blackboys his family's massive estate. Despite the beauty of the castle and its surrounding acres of fields and forests Mr. Chase simply wishes to sell the place and get on with his life severing himself from the past entirely. As the day of sale approaches however he finds himself strangely nostalgic. Having experienced the bitter loss of Sissinghurst her ancestral home to a male cousin Sackville-West is an artist whose works so often mirror her life. This edition of Vita Sackville-West's <I>The Heir</I> is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.</p> <p>Since our inception in 2020 <b>Mint Editions</b> has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.</p> <p>With thousands of titles in our collection we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.</p>