illegitimacy

Presents Dickens's 1853 novel which tells the story of several generations of the Jarndyce family who wait in vain to inherit money that is tied up in a legal dispute in England's notoriously slow-moving Court of Chancery.

Tilla, the illegitimate daughter of Lord Kent, bands together with other outcasts in an attempt to prevent civil war and protect Lyriana, a sheltered, visiting princess whose life is in danger.

In early colonial Massachusetts, a young woman endures the consequences of her sin of adultery and spends the rest of her life in atonement. Contains the original story and translations in modern English on facing pages, a descriptive list of characters, and commentary.

Hester Prynne, condemned by Puritan law to wear the scarlet letter "A" for adulteress, endures her ostracism with dignity, while her lover is tormented by the burden of an unexposed sin.

Grace Monroe, elected to the Los Angeles city council on a Christian platform, is forced to question her life and her faith when a dark secret from her husband's past threatens everything she loves and has worked to achieve.

The story of Jude Fawley, an impoverished stonemason who aspires to the ministry and fails to fulfill the opposite expectations of the two women he loves in Victorian society.

Esther, the illegitimate child of Lady Dedlock and Captain Hawdon, is the ward of Mr. Jarndyce and lives with him at Bleak House.

Jade, the owner of two successful boutiques, flees to her childhood home in Iowa after learning that her husband, Max, has an illegitimate son that he wants her to help raise, and she is forced to question everything she thought she knew about family, commitment, and motherhood as she cares for her increasingly frail mother and draws closer to her first love.

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.