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Two young artists quietly sacrifice for each other when money runs out and their shared creative life is threatened.
A millionaire father bets that money can solve his son's romantic dilemma, while the young lover searches for one uninterrupted moment.
A yellow dog surveys his unhappy New York home and decides that he and his henpecked master both deserve a better life.
After watching the woman he loves marry another man, a proud bachelor reconstructs the misunderstanding that destroyed his chance.
A boarder in mourning attracts a would-be suitor with a tale of a dead count, but wedding plans bring other secrets to light.
Della has one dollar and eighty-seven cents, and one day left to buy her husband a Christmas present worth giving.
When his wife unexpectedly leaves for the night, a bored husband discovers how much of his ordinary life he has taken for granted.
Two struggling women share a makeshift stew, while a mysterious stranger arrives carrying the one ingredient they lack.
A grieving Irishman treats a palmist’s predictions as a treasure map and pursues the stranger meant to bring him luck.
When Bertie says he wants a house full of children, a stop at a girls’ school puts the idea to a test.
Rosie plans to publish a private account of her marriage, and Bingo recruits Bertie to keep it out of print.
Bertie's attempt to mend Freddie's broken engagement leaves him responsible for a stranger's child at the seaside.
Bertie must convince a nerve specialist that he is a suitable son-in-law, but his flat is about to give the wrong impression.
Bertie has one job: get his troublesome cousins onto a ship. Both fall for the same woman and refuse to leave.
Sippy cannot refuse his old headmaster or tell a poet he loves her, so Bertie tries to cure both problems with a bag of flour.
After a Boat Race night arrest, Bertie poses as his jailed friend at a Cambridge house full of people he'd rather avoid.
A cuckoo clock takes sides in a failing marriage and refuses to behave like the possession its owner thinks he bought.
A casual reader finds an alien invasion hidden in plain sight inside the figures of speech in a paperback novel.
Across peaceful future suburbs, children take up a new game called Invasion—and their parents cannot decide whether to take it seriously.
A man surrounded by labor-saving luxuries begins to question the debts that control his family’s future.
A voice in a psychology instructor’s mind guides him toward a way of seeing that strips ordinary reality of meaning.
A university professor receives a bereaved mother whose composed manner appears to embody the ideal he has made of Japanese restraint.
A government animal inspector discovers that one engineered pet can think and speak like a child, forcing him to decide who counts as human.
A retired spaceman dying at home waits to hear one final launch while his family struggles with what his life in space meant to them.
