A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.
The story takes place in 1917. Véronique is a young woman of 35 years, nurse at the milit...
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from...
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey ...
Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford Eng...
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a...
Haunted by her past, a nurse travels from England to a remote Irish village in 1862 to inv...
Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing ...
A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but di...