When the daughter of the miserly cooper Grandet is up for marriage, both families Des Grassins and Cruchot want to marry their sons to her and her substantial dowry. But the girl shows more interest in the impoverished cousin, whom she entrusts her entire fortune to.
Sarah Asproon returns to New Orleans to act as executrix of the estate of a millionaire whom she was...
Addie Moore and Louis Waters, a widow and widower, have lived next to each other for years. The pair...
Meduzot (the Hebrew word for Jellyfish) tells the story of three very different Israeli women living...
Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may ...
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-centu...
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical prof...
A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, ...
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexual...
Rahul Seth is a dashing young millionaire who believes he is "western" enough to rebel against his m...
The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery o...
Jean-Claude Delsart, a 50 years-old bailiff, with his worn-out smile and heart, abandoned a long tim...
Szabolcs plays in a German football team, as does Bernard. They are roommates, best friends, insepar...
After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...
Apu, now a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer, is invited to join an old co...
Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...
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...
Matti and Niila, growing up in the mid-sixties in the harsh and conservative environment of a Finnis...