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Weeks before her wedding, a young woman begins to see her comfortable provincial life—and the future chosen for her—with new clarity.
A banker’s reckless wager condemns a young lawyer to fifteen years of voluntary solitude for a fortune.
On a cold Good Friday evening, a theology student tells two widows a Gospel story and is startled by their response.
As invulnerable creatures overrun Earth, a scientist sends ninety-nine volunteers into the fourth dimension to strike at their source.
A mild bookkeeper’s quiet tour of the Solar System turns him into an asteroid-town marshal with an alien beast for backup.
A schoolboy's joke links a lonely Latin master with a laundress and gives a lesson no classical text can provide.
A severe priest sets out to confront his niece’s secret lover, but the moonlit countryside challenges his certainty.
A bickering couple hears a midnight intruder in the garden, and the husband’s investigation changes their marriage.
A woman who has never wanted children must care for a neighbor's four youngsters.
A little girl offers lilies to a furious neighbor after her calf damages his crops.
Exiled by his own pride, a reckless nobleman accepts a stranger's miraculous bargain.
Three shape-changing aliens land on Earth to open an invasion route, but the planet offers forms their rigid caste system forbids.
A Chinese landowner who can drink without ever growing drunk submits to an eccentric monk’s treatment for the creature said to live inside him.
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