Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, “time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartme...
“A lot goes through your mind when you’re dying...” So begins the tale of Sophie Duncan, a successful columnist whose world falls apart after her daughter’s unexpected il...
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SUMMARY: A vet and single mother of a disabled son returns to her hometown burdened with memories of her childhood sweetheart -- and the cruel deception that forced them apart. The...
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SUMMARY:THINGS FALL APART tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around Okonkwo, a "strong man" of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first of these s...
In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Thérèse Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. The numbing tedium of her life is suddenl...
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SUMMARY:At 9:02 am on Wednesday April 19, 1995, two tons of explosives ripped apart the federal office building in Oklahoma City and the psyche of America. The worst case of...
SUMMARY: Every morning H kan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his apartment in Stockholm. However, one winter's day he fails to come home. It seems that the retired naval o...