Tired of life as soldiers, Peachy Carnehan and Danny Dravot travel to the isolated land of Kafiristan, where they are ultimately embraced by the people and revered as rulers. After a series of misunderstandings, the natives come to believe that Dravot is a god, but he and Carnehan can't keep up their deception forever.

The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns fro...

Three brothers stop off for a night in the town of Tombstone. The next morning they find one of thei...

Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search...

In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whe...

In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the...

An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century Englan...

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to k...

The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.

When El Mono dies, his three longtime friends try to recover from the loss and want to secure his li...

Madrid, Spain, December 27, 1870. General Juan Prim i Prats, president of the Council of Ministers a...

Indolent aristocrat Tony employs competent Barrett as his manservant and all seems to be going well ...

Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He pl...

From chicken thief to cabin boy, riverboat pilot to circus performer, Huck Finn outsmarts everyone o...

August Strindberg's feedback to Henrik Ibsen's "Doll's House"--a short story from the collection "Gi...

In 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King.

In 1858 Lourdes, France, adolescent peasant Bernadette has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the Mas...

As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzli...

Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his free-...

The story of the Newton gang, the most successful bank robbers in history, owing to their good plann...

A French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.