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A young couple uses two sailors' conflicting dates to satisfy an uncle's impossible demand that three Sundays fall in one week.
A newly made Irish baronet competes with a French neighbor for a widow and mistakes every sign for proof that she favors him.
A proud newspaper editor answers a rival's insult with a paragraph built around one letter, then the type runs out.
On his wedding night, an ardent Norman sportsman must choose between his waiting bride and suspected poachers.
A provincial music lover enters a Paris artist’s studio expecting celebrities and finds himself drafted into a chaotic housewarming.
A dazzling Mediterranean boat ride turns from news of disaster to a friend’s indecorous tale about snow.
A self-assured traveler plots a conquest on the road to Corsica, certain he has read his companion correctly.
A fashionable niece condemns modern manners, and her older aunt answers with a sharper lesson in observation.
A miserly Norman farmer resists his son's marriage, then finds his rigid household altered by love, loss, and the demands of survival.
A poor clerk spends a rare bonus on a grand family outing and a hired horse meant to restore his aristocratic dignity.
Amid Cannes’s flower festival, two fashionable women compare the vanity and danger hidden inside the wish to be desired.
An upholsterer explains how a cherished fishing spot, two furious wives, and one unlucky punch brought him before a jury.
A traveler visits a notorious countrywoman whose prosperity depends on the children society pays to stare at.
A newly appointed State Councillor scatters favors across Paris until one generous recommendation threatens his carefully polished importance.
An ardent love letter receives a meticulous reply from a man who finds romantic language more dangerous to desire than silence.
On a carefully cultivated tour of Rome, a refined schoolteacher meets an ideal companion—until one social detail tests her affection.
After five years and most of his fortune, Monson must decide whether his flying machine is ready—or whether ridicule has forced the decision.
A confident rural army meets an enemy weapon built to cross trenches, resist rifles, and turn courage into a tactical liability.
A stubborn skeptic discovers that any command he truly wills becomes real, though precision is not among his gifts.
Three horsemen pursuing a fleeing woman enter a silent valley where the wind carries vast webs alive with spiders.
An Irish landowner plans to drain a bog that local villagers refuse to disturb, then replaces every worker who leaves.
A scholar climbs a forbidden mountain to see the gods of Earth, certain that his learning can protect him from their anger.
A ruthless U-boat commander loses control of his submarine and drifts toward ruins on the Atlantic floor.
A lonely lighthouse keeper boards a white ship under the full moon and sails through dreamlike lands of beauty, mystery, and danger.
