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"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog."
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THE SPOILS OF POYNTON is a complex novel that describes the struggle between a mother and her son over a substantial inheritance that involves not only money and property but an important art collection. The narrative focus is on Fleda Vetch, who is in love with Owen Gereth, the putative heir, and who must cope not only with Owen's greedy, scheming mother but with a rival for his affections who is equally materialistic. The gentle Flora is defeated in the end by forces more ruthless and vindictive than she.
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