adultery

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adultery

The scarlet letter

2009
A graphic novel retelling of the classic story of Hester Prynne, a young wife who struggles to keep her dignity after being condemned by Puritan law to wear the scarlet letter "A" for adultress, while her lover is tormented by the burden of an unexposed sin.

The guru of love

2003
Ramchandra, a math teacher in Kathmandu, gains insights into himself and his wife when he begins an ill-fated affair with a beautiful, impoverished young woman he is tutoring.

The scarlet letters

2003
In 1953, the coastal village of Glenville is shaken by scandal when the managing partner of a prestigious Wall Street law firm learns of an alleged affair in his family.

The beauty of the husband

a fictional essay in 29 tangos
2001
A fictional essay by Anne Carson which is based on Keat's idea that beauty is truth.

The good soldier

2002
The fragile society in which a British couple and an American couple live in pre-World War I Europe is ruptured, revealing deceit, hatred, infidelity, and betrayal.

Sotah

2002
Fragile, exquisite Dina Reich was raised to be an obedient daughter, a dutiful wife. In modern Jerusalem, within the vigilant confines of the ultra-orthodox world of the Haredim, she is bound by the strictest letter of the law.

Lady Chatterley's lover

2011
Presents the unexpurgated text of the 1928 edition of "Lady Chatterley's Lover," in which Constance Chatterley, trapped in a loveless marriage, finds herself experiencing true love for the first time after meeting the new gamekeeper at her husband's estate.

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