A young woman in her late teens, a reader of novels and with high hopes of romance and passion, marries a widowed country doctor. Although he dotes on her, she is soon bored and discontent. First, she gives her imagination to a law student in town, and next she takes a lover. When he refuses to run away with her, she takes up again with the law clerk. Her spending on dresses and furnishings mounts; these debts and her ill-advised professional counsel to her husband bring his ruin.
After an accident, acclaimed novelist Paul Sheldon is rescued by a nurse who claims to be his bigges...
In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and mainta...
Homer is an orphan who was never adopted, becoming the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch. Dr....
The story of an idealist's rise to power in the world of Louisiana politics and the corruption that ...
Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young ma...
The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual l...
Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris b...
Adèle Hugo, daughter of renowned French writer Victor Hugo, falls in love with British soldier Alber...
Marie, who works as a successful door-to-door encyclopedia salesperson, has been married to her husb...
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the...
The New York club scene of the 80s and 90s was a world like no other. Into this candy-colored, mirro...
At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flas...
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory se...
In New York City in the days following the events of 9/11, Monty Brogan is a convicted drug dealer a...
The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgrace...
A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their stri...
Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his fo...
18-year-old school boy Helmut falls in love with fellow pupil Britta. He starts working for a Peace ...
Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are h...
An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the...