An orphan named Innocence leaves her county home after her foster-father dies. She travels to the city and makes a living as a novelist. Subsequently, she has an affair with a painter named Amadis de Jocelyn, who later dumps her.
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but met...
When a prostitute is found dead in a Los Angeles skyscraper occupied by a large Japanese corporation...
An ex-convict is tracked down by his estranged teenage son, and the pair try to build a relationship...
A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con...
Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal....
A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along wi...
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with ...
When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polit...
Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a...
A businessman who lives from blackmailing begins to be blackmailed by his own wife who hates him.
An aimless young man and his sign-painter friend draw a crowd when they climb to the top of a high-r...
After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a ...
Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he...
Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the f...
The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ult...
“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite France...
The Duke de Longtour, a European nobleman, with impoverished estates, comes to America and wins the ...
Captain Khorshid is a sailor who although only having one hand, manages to sail his little boat. In ...
An artist falls for a married young woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait. The two inv...