Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.
Chanel, Dorinda, and Aqua are off to India to star in a Bollywood movie. But when they discover that...
In post-Katrina New Orleans, a Syrian-born painting contractor assisting in the rescue effort finds ...
An illiterate village girl defies the customs of her tribe, discriminatory to women, only to become ...
After having visions of a member of her support group who killed herself, a woman who also suffers w...
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who st...
Two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, stuggle to survive in the countryside after escaping from an animal rese...
A man's simple lie to secure his job escalates into more complex lies when his orthodox boss becomes...
Maud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Mo...
A tireless and charismatic novelty seeker, Tucker tricks his buddy Dan into lying to his fiancée Kri...
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's ...
Having been set the task of setting up a successful business as part of their college course, a grou...
A cursed dancer and a blind musician — both ostracized by society — become business partners and ins...
June Lorich works at the Mesabi Mine on Minnesota's iron range. After an emotionally and physically...
August 2019. Frank recognizes his own story of twenty years ago in a recently published book. He rem...
The novelist Shiga Naoya lives with his wife Haruko and their 4-year-old daughter Saeko. He is paran...
After a chance encounter, headstrong Kathy is drawn to Benny, member of Midwestern motorcycle club t...
Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her pos...
The world has finally managed to blow itself up and only Australia has been spared from nuclear dest...
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four fol...
The stories of three women who know each other, or get to know each other. They are brought together...