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The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story (1901) is a quasi-science fiction novel on which Ford Madox Ford and Joseph Conrad collaborated. It looks at society's mental evolution and what is gained and lost in the process. Written before the first World War, its themes of corruption and the effect of the 20th Century on British aristocracy appeared to predict history. It was first published in London by William Heinemann and later the same year in New York by McClure, Phillips & Co.
In the novel, the metaphor of the "fourth dimension" is used to explain a societal shift from a generation of people who have traditional values of interdependence, being overtaken by a modern generation who believe in expediency, callously using political power to bring down the old order. Its narrator is an aspiring writer who himself makes a similar transition at a personal level only to feel he has lost everything.

Chap. #	Title	# Words
1	CHAPTER ONE	3853
2	CHAPTER TWO	2201
3	CHAPTER THREE	3180
4	CHAPTER FOUR	3138
5	CHAPTER FOUR	343
6	CHAPTER FIVE	2461
7	CHAPTER SIX	4321
8	CHAPTER SEVEN	2164
9	CHAPTER EIGHT	3267
10	CHAPTER NINE	2600
11	CHAPTER TEN	4244
12	CHAPTER ELEVEN	3507
13	CHAPTER TWELVE	2808
14	CHAPTER THIRTEEN	3771
15	CHAPTER FOURTEEN	4188
16	CHAPTER FIFTEEN	4861
17	CHAPTER SIXTEEN	2841
18	CHAPTER SEVENTEEN	3989
19	CHAPTER EIGHTEEN	4488
20	CHAPTER NINETEEN	2076