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Close friends Valentine and Proteus become rivals for the hand of Silvia, daughter of the Duke of Milan, who has promised her to the foolish coward Thurio. Proteus has Valentine banished, but Silvia escapes to the forest to join him. Proteus follows with Julia, who dotes on him. After a confrontation, the Duke eventually allows Valentine and Silvia to wed, and Proteus marries Julia.

Two friends share a flat in London and make most decisions by flipping a coin, until they meet Maria, who leads them on and suggests they rob her rich employer.

A business relationship turns into a love triangle when an ex-soldier begins working for a store owner and his beautiful wife.

"A young social climber leads an actor into an extra-marital affair, from which he then creates a full-on downward spiral into alcholism and bummery. His wife runs off with his best friend, his girlfriend leaves, and he's left with nothing" -- Publisher's note on back cover.

Dora Hand lives by herself in a suburb on the Nebraska prairie. She's gone through three husbands and now seems destined to play the lonely mistress to her married milkman, Kevin -- until a swan crashes into her living room window setting Dora on a harrowing journey.

Tells the story of a modest school teacher who is fired for being too honest and decides to become a dishonest businessman.

In Gorky's greatest work, the characters are the dregs of society hovelled in a ramshackle inn: a thief, a degenerate baron, a prostitute, an alcoholic actor, the seedy proprietor, his sister-in-law who loves the thief and others. Their discontent grows until a whistler comes to perk up their spirits and they begin to grow hopeful. In one of their quarrels a brawl erupts, the proprietor is killed, others are jailed and the drunken actor rises to the...

A Mexican dancer in love with a married man uses a young laborer in love with her to get money to pay for her lover's divorce.

When two best friends make a pact to lose their virginity their first summer out of high school, their friendship is tested when they fall for the same street artist.