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A retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel in which a seventeenth-century New England woman is condemned by Puritan law to wear a scarlet "A" as the symbol of the sin she has committed.

Jude Fawley, poor and working-class, longs to study at the University of Christminster, but he is rebuffed, and trapped in a loveless marriage. He falls in love with his unconventional cousin Sue Bridehead, and their refusal to marry when free to do so confirms their rejection of and by the world around them. The shocking fate that overtakes them is an indictment of a rigid and uncaring society.

Presents the complete text of William Shakespeare's "Winter's tale," with a line-by-line translation of the play in simple language, a list of characters, and a commentary.

In seventeenth-century New England, Hester Prynne is condemned by Puritan law to wear a scarlet "A" as the symbol of the sin she had committed.

Presents a three-act play by late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Sicilian-born playwright Luigi Pirandello about the secret affairs of several people in a small Italian town.

"Putting his player ways behind him, Jasper Dane is now strictly a one-woman man. Jasper, desperate to start a family with his wife, Abby, is devastated when she puts their baby plans on hold. Holly has just arrived in town for the summer, and after landing a job with Jasper, the two form an unlikely friendship. Abby's immediate dislike of Holly and Jasper spending time together causes him to question her fidelity. Broken hearted at Abby's sudden change of heart, and suspicious for her reasons, Jasper takes action, sparking a chain of events that makes his once well planned life spiral out of control."--Back cover.

Edna Pontellier, a Victorian-era wife and mother, is awakened to the full force on her desire for love and freedom when she becomes enamored with Robert LeBrun, a young man she meets while on vacation.

Nineteenth-century novel about Emma Bovary, the wife of a provincial doctor who seeks to escape her boredom by indulging in romantic fantasies and adulterous affairs.

In early colonial Massachusetts, a young woman endures the consequences of her sin of adultery and spends the rest of her life in atonement.

When a violent murderoccurs in a house that grows abandon ed years earlier, a new family becomes obsessed with the house's past, unleashing forces that none of them could have anticipated.