Embittered traveling salesman Willy Loman, who's forced to dispense with delusions of success and come to grips with his failed career, encroaching senility and a disintegrating family.
Elegant and educated bachelor, Charles Swann, moves in the most powerful and fashionable circles of Paris in the 1890's. When he falls in love with Odette de Crecy, a courtesan, his friends warn him against marriage. Proving...
In the East Prussia of Danzig before the war, three-year-old Oskar Matzerath decides to stop
growing--and succeeds--then finds playing his favorite toy, a tin drum, useful for tuning out
things that annoy him, like his...
