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The narrative follows an English household on the eve of a royal restoration as a widowed mother and her son prepare to reclaim a foreign inheritance, confronting divided loyalties, family formalities, and the uprooting of exile. Social rituals, aunts' rigid convictions, and intimate domestic scenes give way to travel, encounters with old acquaintances, and growing tensions between personal affection and public duty. Interwoven episodes examine friendship, love, and the cost of homecoming against a shifting political backdrop, moving from everyday detail to journeys that test allegiance, identity, and the resilience of ties between generations.

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Title: The Wounded Name

Author: D. K. Broster

Release date: August 29, 2021 [eBook #66166]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

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THE WOUNDED NAME

by

D. K. Broster

Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1923

Copyright, 1923, by Doubleday, Page & Company

All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian.

Printed in the United States at The Country Life Press, Garden City, N.Y.

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