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Just when she thought her crazy life was settling down as she married handsome Dr. Cavin Lattimore, Tara discovers Cavin has been having secret meetings with his ex, Sophia, and at the same time Sophia has been off-and-on dating Cavin's son, Eli. At the same time, handsome Eli has been making advances towards Tara hard to resist. Then, Tara's younger sister, Melody, suffers a marital breakdown, and Tara worries that her brief dalliance with Melody's husband years ago has come to light. All the misdeeds of Tara's sexually charged past finally seem to be catching up to her.

Presents an annotated edition of Shakespeare's comedy about Sir John Falstaff's attempts to seduce Mrs. Ford and Mrs. Page; and includes a critical introduction, and discussion of the historical background of the play.

A young woman struggles to understand the passionate feelings and mystery surrounding her husband's beautiful first wife, now dead, but still a presence in their home.

The King of France gives Helena the hand of any man she wants in marriage, but the one she chooses, Bertram, flees to Tuscany, and she must use her wits to get him back. Includes an introduction, notes, and discussion of the theatrical world of Shakespeare.

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.

Wang Lung, a peasant in China in the 1920s, becomes a prosperous landowner with the help of his humble wife, O'Lan, with whom he shares a devotion to duty, land, and survival.

The desires and illusions of Emma Bovary, the bored wife of a provincial doctor in mid-nineteenth-century France, are shattered when reality catches up with her.

Contains the classic play by William Shakespeare along with an extensive overview of the author's life and works, introduction to the play, textual notes and commentaries, and a stage history of actors, directors, and productions.

A humorous retelling of the fairy tale, told from the point of view of the fisherman's wife, who dreams of having plenty of food (she did not have enough to eat as a child), and is very puzzled about how her poor fisherman husband suddenly seems able to provide her with everything she ever dreamed of.

"What happens when you're really, truly done making your marriage work? You can't be married to someone without sometimes wanting to bash them over the head... As Long As We Both Shall Live is JoAnn Chaney's wicked, masterful examination of a marriage gone very wrong, a marriage with lots of secrets... "My wife! I think she's dead!" Matt frantically tells park rangers that he and his wife, Marie, were hiking when she fell off a cliff into the raging river below. They start a search, but they aren't hopeful: no one could have survived that fall. It was a tragic accident. But Matt's first wife also died in suspicious circumstances. And when the police pull a body out of the river, they have a lot more questions for Matt. Detectives Loren and Spengler want to know if Matt is a grieving, twice-unlucky husband or a cold-blooded murderer. They dig into the couple's lives to see what they can unearth. And they find that love's got teeth, it's got claws, and once it hitches you to a person, it's tough to rip yourself free. So what happens when you're done making it work?" --.