The Talbots, formerly one of the Eastern Shore's first families, have gone to seed: Pap is a drunk, soddenly decaying in his ruined ancestral home, and three of his sons (William, Carol, and Ezra) are lazy, shiftless young men. Mulligan, Pap's second son who supports the entire family by oyster fishing, falls in love with wealthy Anna Lee, but when he first kisses her, she calls him "white trash."
Thea is a sculptor who is diagnosed with tuberculosis before she marries Filippo. After abandoning h...
Molly Boone's father has been sent to prison for twenty years for alleged complicity in the killing ...
Mabel Mack's mother is deserted by her father and the mother dies. All that Mabel retains of her fam...
The will of old Dr. Andrews left the bulk of his property to his niece, Mary, who was an orphan livi...
Oliver and Elizabeth wed. He is a famous lawyer, careless of his personal conduct, but has implicit ...
When their regal matriarch falls ill, the troubled Vuillard family come together for a hesitant Chri...
In the periphery of São Paulo, the pregnant single mother Cleuza works as maid in the apartment of a...
Hunter Ross deserts his wife and child and she is driven to the extremes of poverty, being obliged i...
Harry Brownley, son of a rich New Yorker, reads a newspaper account of U.S. Revenue officers' plan t...
Carleton Holt locates at one of the mountain inns. On one of his daily trips he hears a mountain mai...
A mountaineer, who has been shot by a pursuing sheriff, is concealed by a mountain girl in her cabin...
Fred Hart, a young businessman, unknown to his wife, draws their savings from the bank with the purp...
Far up in the mountains Mrs. Bailor's two sons, Tom and Harry, are engaged at their distilling, cons...
Wending their way and locating in a land far from the contentions through which they passed a few we...
A story of that famous adventurer, Haroun al Rashid, the Caliph of Bagdad.
Esmeralda Foster, an attractive girl, is very much impressed with Duncan Miller, a crafty country sw...
Lydia Borne picks up the only party dress she possesses and finds it full of wrinkles. A dance to wh...
Cyma Roget, a beautiful young woman, has fallen under the influence of the evil Hindu scientist Chan...
One brother kills another over the love of a beautiful woman.
Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he...