During a vacation in the United States, the protagonist is seized by severe abdominal pain that forces him to return to Italy in a daring way and to be hospitalized urgently.

In a hospital, ten soldiers are being treated for a mysterious sleeping sickness. In a story in whic...

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

Edwardian England. A precocious girl from a poor background with aspirations to being a novelist fin...

Love and injury in time of war. Attilio de Giovanni teaches poetry in Italy. He has a romantic soul,...

When Marie moves into her boyfriend's apartment, she uncovers a disturbing mystery about the fate of...

Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit countr...

Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who st...

After a bad breakup with his girlfriend leaves him heartbroken, Carter Webb moves to Michigan to tak...

17-year-old Guido suffers since his early childhood from neurodermatitis. After being taken to the h...

A lonely woman's prank phone call leads to an unexpected friendship with a grieving widow.

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...

Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant...

In the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving b...

Tod Lubitch is born with a deficient immune system. As such, he must spend the rest of his life in a...

Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic vic...

In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college profess...

The Munns, father John and sons Chris and Tim, recede to the woods of rural Georgia. Their life toge...

Jack Slavin is an environmentalist with a heart condition who lives with his daughter, Rose, on an i...

Golf never wanted a brother. Bank just wanted to be loved. What grew between them changed both boys ...

The American architect Kracklite arrives in Italy, supervising an exhibiton for a French architect, ...