Isabel Wallace, a woman who is committed to a women's mental asylum by her husband, insists that she is sane and pleads for her release. Her claims go ignored, as her husband is a well-respected minister in the community. Wallace finds herself under the care of a new administrator, Dr. Benjamin Calhoun, who is trying an unorthodox new program to help the patients, by having them take part in a theatrical production of Herman Melville's Moby Dick.

Marnie, a compulsive thief and liar is caught. Her captor impulsively marries the frigid, disturbed girl in an attempt to discover the reasons for her ongoing anti-social behavior.

An affair to remember: Nickie Ferrante and Terry McKay meet on an ocean liner and fall deeply in love. Though each is engaged to someone else, they agree to meet six months later at the Empire State Building if they still feel the same way about each other. But a tragic accident prevents their rendezvous, and the lovers' future takes an emotional and uncertain turn. Laura: A beautiful young woman named Laura is found murdered shortly before her wedding...

"Wonderfully sardonic and slyly humorous the writings of...Charlotte Perkins Gilman were penned in response to her frustrations with the gender-based double standard that prevailed in America as the twentieth century began. Perhaps best known for her chilling depection of a woman's breakdown in her unforgettable 1892 short story 'The Yellow Wall-Paper," Gilman also wrote Herland, a wry novel that imagines a peaceful progressive coutnry from which...