avarice

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.

Presents the text of Shakespeare's drama in which King Lear foolishly disinherits his favorite daughter when she speaks out against him and splits his kingdom between his other two daughters who are secretly plotting against him. Includes explanatory footnotes.

After eating a very large breakfast, Little Miss Greedy goes to her cousin's to celebrate his birthday and brings him a nice surprise.

A graphic novel adaptation of William Shakespeare's play "King Lear", in which a king tries to divide his kingdom among his three daughters.

An English translation of Jules Verne's satirical and visionary novel in which a meteor of pure gold careens toward the earth, generating competitive greed among astronomers and chaos among nations obsessed with its trajectory.