A group of people gathers back in the post-war ruins of a luxurious Munich hotel they inhabited at one point or another years before; each trying to cope with the…

After learning the finer points of carrier aviation in the 1920s, career officer Jonathan Scott and his pals spend the next two decades promoting the superiority of naval air power….

A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.

Six-year-old “Mike” goes to live with her pregnant older sister, Babs, who plays string bass in José Iturbi’s orchestra. And the orchestra is rapidly turning completely female, what with the…

A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion.

A woman who is in love with her boss entices him to join her at a nudist camp, but his affection soon turns elsewhere.

A down-and-out crook on the lam befriends a young street urchin, in an Italian port city. At first amused that the boy is a sneak thief, he tries to deflects…

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his…

Mrs. Ramsey sent Jean Oliver to prison on a false charge. To get even, Jean (disguised as Madame Mystera) plans to kidnap her daughter and turn her into a thief….

The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. There is idle chitchat, gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery,…

Leaping forward twenty years, the trilogy continues with the death of Fanny’s husband, Panisse, and the discovery of her secret by her son, Césariot. The young man resolves to track…

Sad tale of a woman who marries the man her family wishes her to wed, not Wooland, the man she truly loves. Years after her lover’s suicide, Herlie joins him…