A quintet of books about the adventures of a Jewish family in New York; before and after World War I.

An unlucky actress challenged by bleak circumstances, pivots to alcohol and drugs for comfort.

Tips about interior design, diet, dress, entertaining, selecting hobbies and saving; living meaningfully without a husband. Written in 1936, the...

More domestic humor from the author of Please Don’t Eat The Daisies, and The Snake Has All The Lines.

The moods and manifestations of passion, by the French novelist and diarist.

Inside a mental institution, a rebellious patient turns the ward upside down, and challenges the dictatorial power of the Head...

The morning after his retirement, a fifth grade teacher wakes up in a hospital without remembering why.

A novel about the ascent–and fall–of the Buendia family in the mythical town of Macondo.

A London author begins a correspondence with a group that was begun to defy the German occupation of the Channel...

Ambitious, difficult, and tragic: a First Lady’s correspondence, 1840-1882.

In 1950s England, a religious, gadfly spinster interferes in the lives of others.

After garnering an Oscar for Terms of Endearment, a celebrated return to Broadway in a one-woman show, and turning fifty,...