Latina novelist Alma Huebner begs off joining her husband on a humanitarian mission to the Dominican Republic to work on her next book, and finds herself becoming obsessed with the life of her subject--a woman who hand-picked a group of orphan boys to serve as live carriers of the small pox virus in order to provide Spaniard Francisco Xavier Balmis a ready supply of vaccine with which to inoculate the populations of Spain's American colonies in 1803.
A novel about William Shakespeare's years in the bustling, romantic world of the London theater and his marriage to Anne Hathaway, who raised their children without him in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Presents the text of Shakespeare's comedy about Sir John Falstaff's attempts to seduce Mrs. Ford and Mrs. Page; and includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare, an introduction, and notes.
A portrait of a charming, opportunistic preacher turned real estate agent, presented through chronicles of his three marriages and glimpses into the life of his abandoned son, Charlie.
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.
