Presents English playwright John Webster's early-seventeenth-century drama about the tragic marriage between the widowed Duchess of Malfi and her majordomo Antonio Bologna.
Translates Goethe's 1774 novel in which a young artist falls for a young married woman and takes drastic measures to relieve the misery of his unrequited love.
Berlin investment counselor Nadia Trenkler, having by chance met unemployed divorc?e Susanne Lasko and realized they look exactly alike, asks Susanne to pose as her during a weekend with her husband so she can spend time with her lover, and when Nadia disappears, Susanne decides to continue the charade, which results in Susanne getting caught up in a deadly web of lies.
Disheartened after her new husband puts her on a budget and her best friend leaves her for another, London shopaholic Becky Bloomwood is thrilled to learn she has a long-lost sister--until she learns said sister hates shopping.
Alessandra Cecchi becomes enchanted with a young painter her father has brought back from nortern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family's Florentine palazzo, but their relationship is interrupted when Alessandra's parents arrange her marriage to a wealthy older man.
Gwen Lewis seems to lead the perfect life in Manhattan, with the perfect job, the perfect apartment, and the perfect boyfriend, until she meets Gideon Wolkowitz, an impoverished puppeteer who teaches Gwen about love, life, and heartache.
