Jim Nolan, a new member of the Communist Party, struggles to keep a cool head when he leads nine hundred migratory workers in a strike against landowners in California's apple country.
Joseph, having resigned his job in anticipation of being drafted into the army in 1942, finds himself wandering the streets of Chicago with nothing but time on his hands when his induction is delayed.
In a moment of moral crisis, Ethan Hawley, a clerk in a New England grocery store, departs from his high standards to provide for the material comforts he cannot afford for his restless wife and discontented children.
The lives of three people in a nineteenth-century provincial community become entwined as crusader Dorothea Brooke is prevented from being with the man she loves, the idealistic Dr. Lydgate succumbs to materialism, and religious hypocrite Bulstrode tries to hide his past crimes.
The Victorian tale of Little Nell, a girl who is uprooted from her secure and innocent childhood and cast into a world of evil when she and her grandfather are pursued relentlessly through England by the evil and loathsome dwarf Quilp.
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.
Miss Fanny Price, the poor relation of a wealthy family, possesses only natural goodness to aid her against a witty and lovely rival as they compete for the man they both love.
Presents the first cantica of Dante Alighieri's classic work, in which Dante is guided through Hell by the Roman poet Virgil; and includes explanatory notes, diagrams, and a glossary of proper names.
Presents Dante's "The Divine Comedy Volume III: Paradise," which finds Dante ascending to Heaven where he encounters the saints and carries on a conversation about history, politics, and Christian doctrine.
