After her husband dies in a fire, a woman (Susan Hayward) is left to tend for her young son and the family farm on her own. Soon, she takes in a drifting handyman, they fall in love, and a resentment begins to build between the son and his new "step-father" who treats the boy harshly on purpose to prepare him for life on the frontier.
“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite France...
When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rival...
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...
During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—w...
A grief-stricken cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade schoo...
Genius artist Cesar Catilina seeks to leap the City of New Rome into a utopian, idealistic future, w...
Pierre Perdrix has been enjoying an enchanted though restless existence since the enigmatic Juliette...
A small-town store owner with a comatose wife shares a long-term relationship with his seamstress.
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical prof...
Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are h...
The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, ...
Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upp...
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company...
After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...
Addie Moore and Louis Waters, a widow and widower, have lived next to each other for years. The pair...
The story of the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of shooting President Kennedy. Via flas...
A young British widow rents a seaside cottage and soon becomes haunted by the ghost of its former ow...
Nineteen year old pioneer woman Marty has recently married. She goes west with her husband Clem, hop...
Emily Walters is an American widow living a peaceful, uneventful existence in the idyllic Hampstead ...