In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt. At birth she, as agreed, gives up the child. Seven years later she is hired as governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate. The father of the girl, Charles Godwin, turns out to be that anonymous landowner. So Elisabeth has to be her own daughter's governess, and she can't reveal the secret of her tie with little Louisa.
In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital...
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supre...
The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller w...
A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by t...
In the final days of the American Civil War, an emigre Hungarian military officer attempts to map th...
A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing t...
A robust adventure about two British adventurers who take over primitive Kafiristan as "godlike" rul...
Henry IV usurps the English throne, sets in motion the factious War of the Roses and now faces a reb...
David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In orde...
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-centu...
Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a rewar...
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curi...
"Olivia" captures the awakening passions of an English adolescent sent away for a year to a small fi...
During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New...
In the 1800s, a stormy love relationship develops quickly between a young medical student and a woma...
A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.
Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and ...
In a 19th-century European village, a young man about to be married is whisked away to the underworl...