Despite her increasing concerns about the exploits marking her boyfriend's mid-life crisis, sharp-tongued southerner Miss Julia launches a motorcycle fund-raiser to save her housekeeper's home from being lost to the schemes of a greedy landlord.
Trying to escape his overbearing Jewish parents Marcus Messner flees his 1950s New Jersey home to attend college in Winesburg, Ohio, where he quickly becomes marked as one of the few Jews on campus. As the Korean War rages in the background, Marcus's moral upbringing undergoes a serious test in the ...
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The English legal system is the main object of Dickens's satire in BLEAK HOUSE, perhaps the first legal thriller, which centers on the interminable case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce as it makes its tortuous way over the generations through the Court of Chancery. The battle drags on, the litigants are ru ...
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A SIMPLE STORY by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. In scenes charged with understated erotic tension it tells the stories of the flirtatious Miss Milner who falls in love with ...
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