Tom Sullivan and Paul Harris are determined to unlock the centuries old mystery behind an ancient Renaissance text before their graduation from Princeton, but just as they are about to discover its secrets, the campus is rocked with a series of suspicious deaths.
While traveling from Paris to his home in Normandy, law student Frederic Moreau falls in love with Mme Arnoux, an older married woman, and through the years finds himself drawn to Mme Arnoux and her influential husband.
Through three turbulent decades, Forrest rides a tide of events that whisks him from physical disability to football stardom, from Vietnam hero to shrimp tycoon, from White House honors to the arms of his one true love.
Mark Renton and his friends view their everyday life in Edinburgh, Scotland through a heroin-induced haze that affects their minds, attitudes, and judgement.
One rainy morning in 1871 young Martin Pemberton, walking down Broadway in lower Manhattan, sees in a passing horse-drawn omnibus several old men in black, one of whom he recognizes as his supposedly dead and buried father.
Tells the adventures of Pip, an orphaned young man in Victorian England, who is given a great deal of money by an unknown benefactor to enable him to live as a gentleman, pursuing an education and fulfilling great expectations.
The orphaned Pip is serving as a blacksmith's apprentice when an unknown benefactor supplies the means for him to be educated in London as a gentleman of "great expectations.".
