adultery

In nineteenth-century Russia, the wife of an important government official loses her family and social status when she chooses the love of Count Vronsky over a passionless marriage.

In the summer of the 1890s, Edna Pontellier and her children vacation in the coastal town of Grand Isle, Louisiana, and, unsatisfied with her marriage and her role as parent, she has an affair which arouses and renews her soul.

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.

Clym Yeobright, tired of Paris city life, returns to Egdon Heath to open a school. There he marries a pleasure-loving girl and tragedy follows.

Hester Prynne, a young woman in seventeenth century Massachusets, is condemned by Puritan law to wear a scarlet "A" as the symbol of the sin she committed.

Constance Chatterley, the wife of paralyzed and callous English aristocrat, flees her loveless marriage when she develops a romantic attachment with the new gamekeeper at her husband's estate.

This is a book I really enjoyed because of the discriptive words used to explain what is happening are used in a very good way. I also liked the twisted situations that the characters get into. The only thing that I didn't like about this book is that the scenes and actions are always impling what will happen next, but they still let you understand the book.-- Juaquin Martinez.

A young widow profiles the seemingly idyllic life she shared with her husband and young daughter, her devastation over the pulmonary embolism that abruptly ended her husband's life, and her shocked discovery that he had been unfaithful to her throughout their marriage.