avarice

The fisherman's greedy wife is never satisfied with the wishes granted her by an enchanted fish.

A greedy baker buys his wife a magic bed that flies them to the master baker, where they are given special yeast that helps their bakery become, for a while, the most popular in Florence.

Kino, a poor Mexican pearl-diver, believes he has received the answer to his prayers when he finds a great pearl worth a fortune, but tragedy soon follows.

George and Serena Pemberton negotiate the terrain of love and betrayal in the mountainous wilderness of North Carolina, where they build a timber business; when Serena learns that she will not bear a child, she plots to murder the illegitimate son George previously fathered in the area.

Terrible events follow the discovery of a magnificent pearl by a poor Mexican fisherman.

A young banker helps a 92-year-old patriarch draft a will requiring his heirs to get along or lose their inheritance.

Presents a short fable for early readers about how the hyena came to slink about on the African plain.

Set in Victorian England, the story portrays a family splintered by lust yet bound inexorably by a shared legacy; and brings us men and women swept toward a perilous climax where greed, fed by the shocking truth of a boy's death, must be stopped--or not just one man's dreams, but those of a nation, will die.