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Tale of the manners and morals of New York society in the later 1800s. Newland Archer is a young attorney, handsome and eligible. Torn between his socially acceptable fiancee and the more earthy attractions of Countess Olenska, Archer is truly on the horns of a dilemma. The plot is unobvious, delicately developed, with a fine finale that exquisitely satisfies one's sense of fitness, and as always with Edith Wharton, the drama of character is greater than that of event.

Fifteen-year-old Henry Every mysteriously drowns, leaving behind thousands of pages of notes that provide his estranged parents with insights into the life and thoughts of their happily odd child, and force them to realize they never really knew their son.

Louise Canova feels the uncertainty and insecurity of her youth coming back to haunt her when her actor husband becomes more distant, until she finds a faded book entitled "Elegance", which seems to hold the answer to all her problems.

Television producer Brin Cassidy's estranged husband, Jon Riley, interrupts a party she has thrown for a network executive who could provide her big break in the business, demands to know why Brin left him, and refuses to leave until she reveals her secret.

Pierce Quincy, a semi-retired FBI profiler, calls in his daughter, a rising star with the agency, as well as a host of federal and local authorities, in a desperate attempt to find his estranged wife Rainie, a child advocate who has been kidnapped by a sadistic killer.

Presents a novelized account of the last months of poet Sylvia Plath's life after she left her marriage and tried to make a new home for her two young children while completing a collection of poems and struggling to maintain her mental equilibrium.

New York socialite Newland Archer has found his perfect match in sweet-tempered and stable May Archer, his fiance, yet finds himself drawn to Countess Elena Olenska, a socially ostracized divorcee.