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A former prosecutor recalls the admired schoolmaster accused of feeding children sweets laced with glass and broken needles.
In occupied Normandy, a mother awaiting news of her soldier son shares her isolated cottage with four courteous enemy troops.
Five penniless boating friends find their carefree life on the Seine transformed by the quick-witted young woman who takes the helm.
At a quiet spa, a traveler meets a frail young woman and her nervous father, whose strange afflictions share one terrible cause.
A miserly Norman farmer resists his son's marriage, then finds his rigid household altered by love, loss, and the demands of survival.
A grieving lover hides in a cemetery overnight, where the dead begin correcting the respectable lies carved above them.
A devoted widower pours all his love into the son his wife left behind, until an angry servant voices what the whole town knows.
During the Prussian occupation, an officer mistakes a grieving woman’s immobility for defiance and decides to punish her.
A respected lawyer accused of violating his lover’s grave refuses counsel and asks a shocked courtroom to hear why he returned to her.
A traveller pauses beside a dark reservoir and hears how two brothers faced a sudden, desperate accident there.
A housemaid watches her respectable fiancé rise in the world—and begin to treat their long engagement as something beneath him.
A grieving prince builds an ever more magnificent monument to his lost queen, refining it until devotion and art become hard to separate.
A doctor and his nephew investigate a Providence house where generations of residents have weakened, gone mad, or died.
On Easter morning, three children take flowers from a recluse's hill, drawing him back toward the village.
A traveler with a broken buggy is mistaken for a soldier who never came home for Christmas.
An embattled French countess seeks a dream that will decide whether she can forgive the man she loves.
A prosperous man guards a grave whose story begins with a runaway schoolboy and a haunted young woman.
A young man searching for a vanished singer rents a decaying room whose lingering traces seem to answer his longing.
A university professor receives a bereaved mother whose composed manner appears to embody the ideal he has made of Japanese restraint.
