num_pages: 256
description: Mrs. Gareth, widowed chatelaine of Poynton, is fighting to keep her house with its priceless objets d'art from her son Owen and his lovely, utterly philistine fiancée. When she discovers that her young friend and sympathized Fleda Vetch is secretly in love with Owen, she thrusts her into thebattle-line.The power struggle that ensues between the three women leaves Owen vacillating. What is at stake is not the mere possession of tables and chairs; it is, for Fleda, a conflict between aesthetic ideals, ethical imperatives, and her innermost feelings, in which she risks betraying, and being betrayedby, all that she holds most dear.
language: English
title: The Spoils of Poynton
titlecomplete: The Spoils of Poynton (Oxford World's Classics)
genres: Classics, American, Novels, Classic Literature, Romance, Literature, 19th Century, Fiction, Victorian, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 1530
publisher: Oxford University Press