wives

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The good earth

2005
The story of a Chinese peasant and his passionate, dogged accumulation of land during famine, drought, and revolution.

The binding chair, or, A visit from the Foot Emancipation Society

a novel
2001
May, a Chinese woman who suffered from the ritual of foot binding, develops a close relationship with her husband's Jewish niece.

A doll's house

2010
Translation of Henrik Ibsen's famous 1879 play, a pioneer in dramatic presentation of women struggling for independence.

The scarlet letter

2011
Hester Prynne, a young woman in colonial Boston, has an affair with a Puritan minister and bears a daughter out of wedlock. She struggles to keep the identity of her lover a secret while she is condemned to wear a scarlet A embroidered on her clothes.

The gallant Mrs. Stonewall

a novel based on the lives of General and Mrs. Stonewall Jackson
1978
A reprint of the 1957 novel which presents a fictionalized account of the life of Mrs. Stonewall Jackson, wife of the famous Civil War general.

Five days in Paris

a novel
1995
An accidental meeting in Paris changes the lives of powerful businessman Peter Haskell and Oliva Thatcher, wife of a famous senator, leading them to question everything they have worked for and believed in, and giving them hope for the future.

Mrs. Dalloway

1981
Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway, occupied with the last-minute details of party preparation, finds her thoughts on a very different route through the past.

Eva Peron

First Lady of Argentina
2006
A brief biography of Eva Peron, wife of Argentine president Juan Peron, providing information on her childhood, her failed acting career, her political activities, and more.

Will

2004
A novel about William Shakespeare's years in the bustling, romantic world of the London theater and his marriage to Anne Hathaway, who raised their children without him in Stratford-upon-Avon.

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