Constance Chatterley turns from a sterile marriage to a passionate relationship with a spiritually independent gamekeeper.

Feeling safe but unfulfilled in her sterile relationships with her father and husband, Gwen Merchant agrees to pose as the wife of a college boyfriend to fulfill his dying mother's last wish, an arrangement that leads to unexpected feelings and Gwen's reevaluation of everything she thought she believed.

Ten years after being forbidden to socialize with--let alone fall in love with--Jag, the son of a palace servant, Sophie returns to India with her British husband and finds that the memories of her first love have never truly left her.

A combined love story and philosophical meditation on the body as a physical phenomenon thrusts the reader into the life of a married woman and her erotic relationship with an unidentified lover who narrates the story.

Believing she has the life she always wanted, Tilly Farmer is devastated when unsettling facts about her personal life, from her father's alcoholism to her husband's insensitive plan to relocate, are revealed to her by an old friend in a fortune-teller's tent.

A famous legend surrounding the creation of Anna Karenina tells us that Tolstoy began writing a cautionary tale about adultery and ended up by falling in love with his magnificent heroine. It is rare to find a reader of the book who doesn't experience the same kind of emotional upheaval: Anna Karenina is filled with major and minor characters who exist in their own right and fully embody their mid-nineteenth-century Russian milieu, but it still belongs...

A haunting tribute to the heroic pioneers who shaped the American Midwest This powerful novel by Willa Cather is considered to be one of her finest works and placed Cather in the forefront of women novelists. It tells the stories of several immigrant families who start new lives in America in rural Nebraska. This powerful tribute to the quiet heroism of those whose struggles and triumphs shaped the American Midwest highlights the role of women pioneers,...

Weaving together ghost stories, myths, and song, this haunting novel follows a young bride as she leaves her life in India behind to move to Nepal with her new husband and his family, examining the loss she experiences as she gives up one home to become part of another.

"In 1920s Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), a young Englishwoman marries a charming tea plantation owner and widower, only to discover he's keeping terrible secrets about his past, including what happened to his first wife, that lead to devastating consequences"--Adapted from publisher description.