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A poor, naïve farm girl enters service with a wealthy widower whose demands soon extend far beyond cooking and cleaning.
A chance encounter in a provincial tobacco shop revives a vanished world of river outings, hard work, and ingenious schemes.
A failing shopkeeper finally tells his wife they face ruin, just as a family catastrophe offers an answer neither can admit wanting.
A poor scholarship student makes one accidental movement during an exam and must decide whether winning matters more than his principles.
A housemaid watches her respectable fiancé rise in the world—and begin to treat their long engagement as something beneath him.
A penniless London dreamer searches night after night for Celephaïs, the timeless city he first entered in childhood.
Two Dublin men arrange a meeting with a servant, and one spends the evening waiting for news.
An artist wants to sketch a Cajun fisherman, but the man's daughter worries how strangers will portray him.
With her brother sick and her father avoiding work, Lolotte takes a cotton delivery into her own hands.
Fifine takes her father's old fiddle to a plantation party, hoping it can help feed her family.
Hearing that his former love is struggling, Doudouce travels to see her and her family.
A plantation store clerk grows attached to a young woman whose family depends on the planter's credit.
At Easter, a carpenter notices a poor young woman whom the village has overlooked.
A poor market worker supports an older woman from the family he once served.
A plantation worker sets out for a week of visiting and stops at a sick boy's cabin.
On a bitter Christmas Eve, an out-of-work watchmaker hears a violin through the wall just as he loses hope.
A despised prince secretly marries the peasant woman who restores his faith in the world.
A poor steward's daughter marries the lord who saved her from a burning home.
A Swiss orphan torn between gratitude and love must reckon with a revolution gathering in her valley.
A traveling journalist arrives in supposedly uneventful Nashville and discovers that its quiet streets conceal tangled loyalties and danger.
A shopgirl living on six dollars a week faces the glittering promise of dinner and the danger hidden behind it.
A young architect spends his carefully saved evening posing as a wealthy clubman when he invites a stranger to dinner.
A homeless New Yorker tries every trick he can think of to secure a warm winter bed behind bars.
A proud former Confederate officer is offended when an actor turns his old-fashioned manners and clothes into a theatrical sensation.
