adultery

Edna Pontellier, a Victorian-era wife and mother, is awakened to the full force of her desire for love and freedom when she becomes enamored with Robert LeBrun, a young man she meets while on vacation.

Classic tale about Hester Prynne, her lover, their child, and Hester's husband, and the effect of sin on the mind and spirit of these characters.

Isolde, a healer, falls instantly in love when she is called upon to secretly treat Sir Tristan of Lyonesse, who was injured in battle against her Queen mother's troops, but the young lovers find themselves caught in the crosscurrents of fate when Isolde is promised in marriage to Tristan's uncle, the King of Cornwall.

Ninteenth-century novel about Emma Bovary, the wife of a provincial doctor who seeks to escape her boredom by indulging in romantic fantasies and adulterous affairs.

Edna Pontellier, dissatisfied with her indifferent husband, gives in to her desire for other men and commits adultery.

Holden Harris is an autistic eighteen-year-old who is bullied at school. Ella Reynolds is the head cheerleader who befriends Holden but has problems of her own at home.

In nineteenth-century Russia, the wife of an important government official loses her family and social status when she chooses the love of Count Vronsky over a passionless marriage.