Books with title The Bondage of Riches

“God, give me neither poverty nor riches.”That was John Wycherley’s constant prayer as he struggled through life, trying to provide for his family. Modest comfort was all he ever aimed at or hoped for. He had no desire to exchange the peace of a quiet, well-ordered life for the bondage of riches. But his small act of kindness to a stranger finds John the heir to an astonishing fortune. While John Wycherley is thankful for the windfall, he is not prepared to give up the happy, peaceful life he and his family lead—but his wife Emma has other ideas. She wants to move to a country estate and even schemes to marry their daughter off to a peer! But the arrival of a mysterious stranger, claiming to be the rightful heir, soon jeopardizes Emma Wycherley’s plans and tests John’s conscience in a way he never could have imagined. This unabridged edition of the 1900 classic Christian novel includes a biography of the author.

Excerpt from The Bondage of RichesFairly so. It is fresh out here. We should be sorry to leave this house, shouldn't we, dear? We've had a good many happy years in it.I shouldn't be very sorry if we were going to a better one. I hope that will come soon. Ethel ought to have her chance, John. She really looked very pretty this afternoon in her new pink frock.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Bondage of RichesFairly so. It is fresh out here. We should be sorry to leave this house, shouldn't we, dear? We've had a good many happy years in it.I shouldn't be very sorry if we were going to a better one. I hope that will come soon. Ethel ought to have her chance, John. She really looked very pretty this afternoon in her new pink frock.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.