inheritance and succession

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Sense and sensibility

2007
Two sisters of opposing temperaments come to a closer understanding of each other through the shared sufferings of tragic love affairs, but true love finally triumphs.

The tempest

the graphic novel, William Shakespeare
2011
Returning from a royal wedding, the ships carrying the King of Naples and his crew are caught in a violent storm. Traveling through treacherous and turbulent waters, they all arrive on the same nearby island. Not only does each believe that the others did not make it out alive, they are also completely unaware that the storm was no accident.

King Lear

1984
An adaptation of William Shakespeare's play "King Lear" that presents the play in graphic novel form.

Our mutual friend

1998
Presents Charles Dickens's novel in which young John Harmon, supposedly murdered on his way to London to claim his inheritance, takes a job under an assumed name and spies on the people who are trying to secure his late father's fortune; and includes an introduction and explanatory notes.

Lemony Snicket's a series of unfortunate events

2004
Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire are three intelligent young children who receive terrible news that their parents have died in a fire and have left them an enormous fortune not to be used until the eldest child is of age. When they are sent to live with Count Olaf, a greedy distant relative, they soon learn he is trying to steal their fortune for himself.

Baby boom

1987
The life of a prominent business woman is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.

Shrek the third

king for a day, ogre for life
2007
Shrek, tired of filling in for the ailing king, knows he must find the only other heir to the throne in order to save himself from having to be the permanent ruler in Far Far Away.

The mummy, the will, and the crypt

1996
Twelve-year old Johnny Dixon and his friend Professor Childermass look for the hidden will left by an eccentric cereal tycoon who wished to make life difficult for his heirs after his own death by suicide.

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