wives

After Nick Quinn, who witnessed his wife's murder, is accused of the crime and held in jail, he is approached by a gentleman who gives him a golden talisman that allows him to travel backwards in time to find clues and possibly save his wife.

Depicts the events, thoughts, and actions of a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway.

The author takes on the identity of Madame Mao, wife of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong, presenting her as insecure and in need of love instead of simply vindictive and cruel, and uses historical facts, characters, and documents to tell her story.

The story of Sapphira Dodderidge, a Virginia lady of the nineteenth century who marries beneath her and becomes irrationally jealous of Nancy, a beautiful slave.

The author recalls the wartime experiences of his father who volunteered for the army, landed on Omaha Beach in 1944, and was killed near St. Lo by a sniper's bullet while attending a wounded soldier.

Aurora del Valle, raised in the privileged class of Chile by her grandmother, is tormented by nightmares and half-memories of events set in San Francisco's Chinatown. Disillusioned in her marriage, Aurora sets out to rediscover the missing years of her early childhood.

In Victorian England, a woman recounts her difficult marriage to an alcoholic whom she attempted to change and the battles she fought with double standards once she left her husband, taking her son with her.

Portrays the love affair and marriage between Ernest Hemingway and Hadley Mowrer from their Chicago meeting in 1920 to their lives during the Jazz Age in Paris, but as Ernest struggles to find his literary voice, Hadley tries to define her role in their relationship as wife, friend, and muse.

A peasant who tries to satisfy his wife by catching a wagonload of fish is outsmarted by a fox.

Presents Shakespeare's comedy about Sir John Falstaff's attempts to seduce Mrs. Ford and Mrs. Page. Includes detailed textual notes.