The story of Franklin Roosevelt's bout with polio at age 40 in 1921 and how his family (and especially his wife Eleanor) cope with his illness. From being stricken while vacationing at Campobello to his triumphant nominating speech for Al Smith's presidency in 1924, the story follows the various influences on his life and his determination to recover.

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an India...

The fiddler Valenta has troubled his wife with his drinking and disorderly life. His daughter Rozárk...

Margaret keeps her neighbours at a distance and avoids contact except with Cara. She enjoys her comp...

Don Juan Tenorio makes a bet with a friend as to which of them will commit more outrages in a year. ...

In the search for a single good person in the province of Sezuan, three gods finally find only poor ...

Inspired by a 1975 American touring production of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” he visited as a young...

In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose ...

It's summer vacation, but two high schoolers have been instructed to clean the (empty) swimming pool...

Tennessee Williams’ twentieth century masterpiece Cat on a Hot Tin Roof played a strictly limited se...

Jake is a writer. He is married to Maggie, but his marriage is in trouble. He cannot stop thinking a...

As a renowned producer and close associate of Dan Rather, Mary Mapes believes she’s broken the bigge...

An examination of Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud's career when he began to treat patients diagn...

A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the rut...

Set in a modern-day London of economic and political uncertainty, the story follows the intersecting...

Somewhere in Australia in the early 20th century outback, an Aboriginal man is accused of murdering ...

From Wichita to Dodge City, to the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Wyatt Earp is taught that nothing matte...

Thomas Becket, Henry II's longtime advisor, finds his friendship with the debauched king corroding w...

A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes...

When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literat...