illegitimate children

First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling," the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers?the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason.

Justin Alastair, the Duke of Avon, finds his single-minded pursuit of revenge against the Comte de St. Vire sidetracked by a beautiful orphan.

A biography of Philomena Lee and Michael Hess who were reunited fifty years after Philomena was forced to give him up for adoption by the Catholic Church.

Presents an annotated edition of "The Scarlet Letter," the story of a young wife convicted of adultery in seventeenth-century New England, and includes five shorter works by Hawthorne, a selection of the author's letters and notebook entries, and critical commentary.

Arthur Henning arrives at the Duvall's country estate hoping to rebuild his life and forget his painful experiences in Vienna, but when his son impregnates his boss's daughter, Arthur is forced from his solitude to protect his unborn grandchild.

Contains an authoritative text of a poor stone carver, Jude Fawley, who is torn between his dreams of a university education and the desires of his own carnal nature and also includes background information on the novel as well as Hardy's nonfictional writings and poems and comments by critics on his other works.

Grace Monroe, elected to the Los Angeles city council on a Christian platform, is forced to question her life and her faith when a dark secret from her husband's past threatens everything she loves and has worked to achieve.

In seventeenth century New England, Hester Prynne is condemned by Puritan law to wear a scarlet "A" as the symbol of the sin she has committed.