The heroes of this story, based on real events at the end of the 1930s and during World War II, face and dismiss the illusions of intellectuals about their ability to transform society. Professor Magyary and his disciples hoped to promote the modernisation of Hungarian society through a radical reform of public administration.
When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in the United States, he is...
The story takes place in Prague in the 1930s. An old trickster watchmaker named Sakař fakes an illne...
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...
Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress...
After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean clim...
A New Yorker's life is thrown into a tailspin when his younger cousin surprise-visits him, starting ...
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses ...
A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady...
In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel ...
Lukas, a young schizophrenic man, has to deal with a new town, a new relationship, and the paranoia ...
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea...
A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off...
A man and a woman come from two very different cultural backgrounds, and decide that they won't get ...
Kennedy has one day to get her shit together or get kicked out of school for good. Instead of buckli...
A poignant biography of one of the most successful and wildly-read writers of the 20th century. Her ...
Three best friends who are barely getting by as fishermen seek their fate in 1930s Shanghai. Upon ar...
Tucson, Arizona, September 1996. At the request of his son Martin, George Goldsmith tells him of his...
A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repe...