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The theme of adultery
Adultery

Adultery is the voluntary sexual intercourse between a marriage and another person who is not his or her spouse, though in many places it is only considered adultery when a married woman has sexual relations with someone who is not her husband and in others it is only considered adultery when a married woman has sexual relations with someon...
 has been used in a wide range of literature
Literature

Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" . In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and non-fiction....
 through the ages. The fact of adultery has been a part of the human existence
Human condition

The human condition encompasses all of the experience of being human. As mortal entities, there are a series of biology determined events that are common to most human lives, and some that are inevitable for all....
 for as long as there has been marriage
Marriage

Marriage is a social, spirituality, or law union of individuals. This union may also be called matrimony, while the ceremony that marks its beginning is usually called a wedding and the married status created is sometimes called wedlock....
, so this is hardly surprising. As a theme it brings intense emotions into the foreground, and has consequences for all concerned. It also automatically brings its own conflict, between the people concerned and between sexual desires and a sense of loyalty.

As marriage and family are often regarded as basis of society a story of adultery often shows the conflict between social pressure and individual struggle for happiness.

In the Bible
Bible

The Bible is the central religious text of Judaism and Christianity. The exact Books of the Bible is dependent on the religious traditions of specific denominations....
, incidents of adultery are present almost from the start.






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The theme of adultery
Adultery

Adultery is the voluntary sexual intercourse between a marriage and another person who is not his or her spouse, though in many places it is only considered adultery when a married woman has sexual relations with someone who is not her husband and in others it is only considered adultery when a married woman has sexual relations with someon...
 has been used in a wide range of literature
Literature

Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" . In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and non-fiction....
 through the ages. The fact of adultery has been a part of the human existence
Human condition

The human condition encompasses all of the experience of being human. As mortal entities, there are a series of biology determined events that are common to most human lives, and some that are inevitable for all....
 for as long as there has been marriage
Marriage

Marriage is a social, spirituality, or law union of individuals. This union may also be called matrimony, while the ceremony that marks its beginning is usually called a wedding and the married status created is sometimes called wedlock....
, so this is hardly surprising. As a theme it brings intense emotions into the foreground, and has consequences for all concerned. It also automatically brings its own conflict, between the people concerned and between sexual desires and a sense of loyalty.

As marriage and family are often regarded as basis of society a story of adultery often shows the conflict between social pressure and individual struggle for happiness.

In the Bible
Bible

The Bible is the central religious text of Judaism and Christianity. The exact Books of the Bible is dependent on the religious traditions of specific denominations....
, incidents of adultery are present almost from the start. The story of Abraham
Abraham

Abraham is a man featured in the Book of Genesis and an important figure in several monotheistic religions. Judaism, Christianity and Islam traditions regard him as the founding Patriarchs of the Israelites, Ishmaelites and Edomite peoples....
 contains several incidents and serve as warnings or stories of sin and forgiveness. Abraham attempts to continue his blood line through his wife's maidservant, with consequences that continue through history. Jacob
Jacob

According to the Hebrew Bible, Jacob , also known as Israel , was the third Biblical patriarchs and the ancestor of the twelve Israelites....
's family life is complicated with similar incidents.

Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
 wrote three plays in which the perception of adultery plays a significant part. In both Othello
Othello

Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian language short story "Un Capitano Moro" by Cinthio first published in 1565....
 and The Winter's Tale
The Winter's Tale

The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare, first published in the First Folio in 1623. Although it was listed as a comedy when it first appeared, some modern editors have relabeled the play a Romance ....
 the downfall of the protagonist is brought about by his belief that his wife is unfaithful. In "The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Merry Wives of Windsor

The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare, first published in 1602, though believed to have been written prior to 1597....
," Falstaff initiates an ingenious adulterous plot which prompts elaborate and repeated revenge by the wronged wives; the comedy of the play hides a deeper anxiety about the infidelity of women.

The following works of literature have adultery and its consequences as one of their major themes. (M) and (F) stand for adulterer and adulteress respectively.

Drama
Drama

Drama is the specific Mode of fiction Mimesis in performance. The term comes from a Ancient Greek word meaning "Action " , which is derived from "to do" ....


  • Edward Albee
    Edward Albee

    Edward Franklin Albee III is an American playwright best known for works, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Zoo Story, The Sandbox and The American Dream ....
    : Marriage Play
    Marriage Play

    Marriage Play is a drama for two actors by Edward Albee.The play opens with a blow. Jack enters home and informs his wife, that after thirty years of being married to her he intends to leave....
     (M, ?F)
  • Simon Gray
    Simon Gray

    Simon James Holliday Gray Order of the British Empire was a prolific postwar British playwright, whose work was performed worldwide.Simon Gray was born in Hayling Island, Hampshire, England....
    : Japes (F)
  • Arthur Miller
    Arthur Miller

    Arthur Miller was an United States playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in Theater in the United States and film for almost 100 years, writing a wide variety of dramas, including celebrated Play such as The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, All My Sons, and Death of a Salesman, which are studied and performed w...
    : Broken Glass
    Broken Glass

    Broken Glass is the fourth album by Crowbar released on October 29, 1996....
     (F)
  • Peter Nichols
    Peter Nichols

    Peter Nichols is an England writer of stage plays, film and television.Born in Bristol, England, he was educated at Bristol Grammar School, and then did his National Service in the Royal Air Force for three years, going on to study acting at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School....
    : Passion Play (M,F)
  • Harold Pinter
    Harold Pinter

    Harold Pinter, Companion of Honour, Order of the British Empire , an English people playwright, screenwriter, actor, Theatre director, poet, author, political activist, and the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature, was at the time of his death considered by many "the most influential and imitated dramatist of his generation."...
    : The Homecoming
    The Homecoming

    The Homecoming is a two-act award-winning play written in 1964 by Nobel Prize in Literature, Harold Pinter. First published in 1965, the original Broadway theatre production won the 1967 21st Tony Awards and its 40th-anniversary Broadway production at the Cort Theatre was nominated for a 2008 62nd Tony Awards for "Best Revival of a Play"....
     (F)
  • William Shakespeare
    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
    : The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice
    Othello

    Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian language short story "Un Capitano Moro" by Cinthio first published in 1565....
     (no adulterers/esses, though the plot revolves around the perception of adultery)
  • William Shakespeare
    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
    : The Winter's Tale
    The Winter's Tale

    The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare, first published in the First Folio in 1623. Although it was listed as a comedy when it first appeared, some modern editors have relabeled the play a Romance ....
     the suspicion of adultery initiates the plot
  • Richard Wagner
    Richard Wagner

    Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, Conducting, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas . Unlike most other great opera composers, Wagner wrote both the scenario and libretto for his works....
    : Tristan und Isolde
    Tristan und Isolde

    Tristan und Isolde is an opera, or music drama, in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German language libretto by the composer, based largely on the romance by Gottfried von Stra?burg....
     based on the legend of Tristan and Iseult
    Tristan and Iseult

    The legend of Tristan and Iseult is an influential romance and tragedy, retold in numerous sources with as many variations. The tragic story is of the adulterous love between the Cornwall knight Tristan and the Ireland princess Iseult ....
     (F)
  • Hugh Whitemore
    Hugh Whitemore

    Hugh Whitemore is an United Kingdom playwright and screenwriter born in 1936.Whitemore studied for the stage at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he is now a Member of the Council....
    : Disposing of the Body (M,F)
  • Tennessee Williams
    Tennessee Williams

    Tennessee Williams was an American playwright who received many of the top theatrical awards. He moved to New Orleans in 1939 and changed his name to "Tennessee", the state of his father's birth....
    : Baby Doll
    Baby Doll

    Baby Doll is a 1956 film which tells the story of the childlike bride of a Mississippi cotton gin owner, who becomes the pawn in a battle between her husband and his enemy....
     (F)
  • William Wycherley
    William Wycherley

    William Wycherley was an England dramatist of the English Restoration period....
    : The Country Wife
    The Country Wife

    The Country Wife is a Restoration comedy written in 1675 by William Wycherley. A product of the tolerant early English Restoration period, the play reflects an aristocracy and anti-Puritan ideology, and was controversial for its sexual explicitness even in its own time....
     (F)


Fiction
Fiction

Fiction is an imaginative form of narrative, one of the four basic rhetorical modes. Although the word fiction is derived from the Latin fingo, fingere, finxi, fictum, "to form, create", works of fiction need not be entirely imaginary and may include real people, places, and events....


  • Kingsley Amis
    Kingsley Amis

    Sir Kingsley William Amis, Commander of Order of the British Empire was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. He wrote more than twenty novels, three collections of poetry, short stories, radio and television scripts, and books of social and literary criticism....
    : That Uncertain Feeling
    That Uncertain Feeling

    That Uncertain Feeling is a comic novel by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1956.In 1962, the book was made into a film starring Peter Sellers, with the title changed to Only Two Can Play....
     (M,F)
  • Malcolm Bradbury
    Malcolm Bradbury

    Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury CBE was a United Kingdom author and academic....
    : The History Man
    The History Man

    The History Man is a campus novel by the British author Malcolm Bradbury set in 1972 in the fictional seaside town of Watermouth in the South of England....
     (M,F)
  • John Braine
    John Braine

    John Gerard Braine was an England novelist. Braine is usually associated with the Angry Young Men movement....
    : The Jealous God
    The Jealous God

    The Jealous God is a novel by John Braine which was first published in 1964 in literature. Set in the early 1960s among the Ireland Catholic community in a small Yorkshire town, the book is about a 30 year-old mummy's boy and his attempts at liberating himself from his domineering mother....
     (M,F)
  • Charlotte Bronte
    Charlotte Brontė

    Charlotte Bront? was a United Kingdom novelist, the eldest of the three famous Bront? sisters whose novels have become standards of English literature....
    : Jane Eyre
    Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre is a famous and influential novel by English writer Charlotte Bront?. It was published in London, England in 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co....
     (M,F)
  • James M. Cain
    James M. Cain

    James Mallahan Cain was an United States journalist and novelist. Although Cain himself vehemently opposed labelling, he is usually associated with the hardboiled school of American crime fiction and seen as one of the creators of the hardboiled....
    : The Postman Always Rings Twice
    The Postman Always Rings Twice

    The Postman Always Rings Twice is a 1934 in literature crime fiction novel by James M. Cain.The novel was quite successful and notorious upon publication, and is regarded as one of the more important crime novels of the 20th century....
     (F)
  • Geoffrey Chaucer
    Geoffrey Chaucer

    Geoffrey Chaucer was an English author, poet, philosopher, Bureaucracy, Noble court and diplomat. Although he wrote many works, he is best remembered for his unfinished frame narrative The Canterbury Tales....
    : The Canterbury Tales
    The Canterbury Tales

    The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century . The tales, some of which are originals and others not, are contained inside a frame tale and told by a collection of pilgrims on a pilgrimage from London Borough of Southwark to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathed...
     (M,F)
  • Kate Chopin
    Kate Chopin

    Kate Chopin was an United States author of short story and novels, mostly of a Louisiana Creole people background. She is now considered by some to have been a forerunner of feminist authors of the 20th century....
    : The Awakening
    The Awakening (novel)

    The Awakening is a short novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899 in literature. It is widely considered to be a proto-feminist precursor to American modernism....
     (F)
  • Albert Cohen
    Albert Cohen

    Albert Cohen was a Greek-born Jewish Switzerland novelist who wrote in French. He worked as a civil servant for various international organizations, such as the International Labour Organization....
    : Belle du Seigneur (F)
  • Ivy Compton-Burnett
    Ivy Compton-Burnett

    Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, Order of the British Empire was an Great Britain novelist, published as I. Compton-Burnett. She was awarded the 1955 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for her novel Mother and Son....
    : A Heritage and Its History
    A Heritage and Its History

    A Heritage and Its History is a novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett first published in 1959 in literature by Victor Gollancz Ltd....
     (F)
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an United States writer of novels and short stories, whose works are evocative of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself....
    : The Great Gatsby
    The Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby is a novel by the United States author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published on April 10, 1925, it is set in Long Island's North Shore and New York City during the summer of 1922....
     (M,F); Tender Is the Night
    Tender is the Night

    Tender Is the Night is an English language novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in Scribner's Magazine between January-April, 1934 in four issues....
     (M,F)
  • Gustave Flaubert
    Gustave Flaubert

    Gustave Flaubert was a France writer who is counted among the greatest Western literature. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary , and for his scrupulous devotion to his art and style....
    : Madame Bovary
    Madame Bovary

    Madame Bovary is a novel by Gustave Flaubert, often considered his masterpiece. The novel focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adultery and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life....
     (F)
  • Theodor Fontane
    Theodor Fontane

    Theodor Fontane was a Germany novelist and poet, regarded by many to be the most important 19th-century German-language Literary realism writer....
    : Effi Briest
    Effi Briest

    Effi Briest is widely considered to be Theodor Fontane's masterpiece and one of the most famous German language Literary realism novels of all time....
     (M,F)
  • Ford Maddox Ford: The Good Soldier
    The Good Soldier

    The Good Soldier is a 1915 novel by England novelist Ford Madox Ford. It is set just before World War I and chronicles the tragedies of the lives of two seemingly perfect couples....
     (M,F)
  • C.S. Forester: Flying Colours
    Flying Colours

    Flying Colours is a Horatio Hornblower novel by C.S. Forester, originally published 1938 as the third in the series, but now eighth by internal chronology....
    , Lord Hornblower
    Lord Hornblower

    Lord Hornblower is a Horatio Hornblower novel written by C. S. Forester.In 1814, Hornblower is delegated to deal with the Flame, a sloop full of mutineers off the France coast, near the mouth of the Seine....
     (M)
  • Ellen Glasgow
    Ellen Glasgow

    Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow was a Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist from Richmond, Virginia....
    : Virginia
    Virginia (novel)

    Virginia is a novel by Ellen Glasgow about a wife and mother who in vain seeks happiness by serving her family. This novel, her eleventh, marked a clear departure from Glasgow's previous work -- she had written a series of bestsellers before publishing Virginia -- in that it attacked, in a subtle yet unmistakable way, the very layer...
     (M)
  • Graham Greene
    Graham Greene

    Henry Graham Greene Order of Merit, Order of the Companions of Honour was an English writer best known as a novelist, but who also produced short stories, plays, screenplays, travel writing and criticism....
    : The end of the affair
    The End of the Affair

    The End of the Affair is a novel by United Kingdom author Graham Greene, as well as the title of two feature films that were adapted for the screen based on the novel....
     (F); The Heart of the Matter
    The Heart of the Matter

    The Heart of the Matter is a novel by United Kingdom author Graham Greene. It was the winner in 1948 of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction....
     (M)
  • Mark Haddon
    Mark Haddon

    Mark Haddon is a United Kingdom novelist and poet, best known for his 2003 novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. He was educated at Uppingham School and Merton College, Oxford, where he studied English language....
    : A Spot of Bother
    A Spot of Bother

    A Spot of Bother is the second adult novel by the author Mark Haddon, who is best known as the writer of his prize-winning first novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time....
     (F)
  • Josephine Hart
    Josephine Hart

    Josephine Hart is an Ireland writer, theater producer and television presenter. She is widely known as author of the novel Damage , which was itself the basis for a Damage directed by Louis Malle and featuring Jeremy Irons and Juliette Binoche....
    : Damage
    Damage (novel)

    Damage is a 1991 novel by Josephine Hart about a British politician who, in the prime of life, causes his own downfall through an inappropriate relationship....
     (M)
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
    Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer.Nathaniel Hathorne was born in 1804 in the city of Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and Elizabeth Clarke Manning Hathorne....
    : The Scarlet Letter
    The Scarlet Letter

    The Scarlet Letter is a novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is considered his magnum opus. Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who gives birth after committing adultery and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity....
     (F)
  • Carl Hiaasen
    Carl Hiaasen

    Carl Hiaasen is an United States journalist and novelist....
    : Skinny Dip (M)
  • Francis Iles: Malice Aforethought
    Malice Aforethought

    Malice Aforethought is a murder mystery novel written by Anthony Berkeley Cox, using the pen name Francis Iles. It involves a Devon physician who slowly poisons his domineering wife so that he may be with the woman he loves....
     (M)
  • John Irving
    John Irving

    John Winslow Irving is an United States novelist and Academy Awards-winning screenwriter.Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of The World According to Garp in 1978....
    : The World According to Garp
    The World According to Garp

    The World According to Garp is John Irving fourth novel. Published in 1978, the book was a bestseller for several years.A The World According to Garp starring Robin Williams was released in 1982, with a screenplay written by Steve Tesich....
     (M,F)
  • Milan Kundera
    Milan Kundera

    Milan Kundera is a Czech Republic and French writer of Czech Republic origin who has lived in exile in France since 1975, where he became a Naturalization in 1981....
    : The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being

    The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a novel written by Milan Kundera in 1982, first published in 1984 in literature in France....
     (M)
  • D. H. Lawrence
    D. H. Lawrence

    David Herbert Richards Lawrence was an England author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary criticism. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization....
    : Lady Chatterley's Lover
    Lady Chatterley's Lover

    Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence written in 1928.Printed privately in Florence, Italy, in 1928, it was not printed in the United Kingdom until 1960 ....
     (F)
  • David Lodge
    David Lodge (author)

    David John Lodge CBE, is a Great Britain author....
    : Thinks ...
    Thinks ...

    Thinks ... is a novel by United Kingdom author David Lodge ....
     (M)
  • William Somerset Maugham: Liza of Lambeth
    Liza of Lambeth

    Liza of Lambeth was W. Somerset Maugham's first novel, which he wrote while working as a Physician at a hospital in Lambeth, then a working class district of London....
     (M)
  • Arthur Miller
    Arthur Miller

    Arthur Miller was an United States playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in Theater in the United States and film for almost 100 years, writing a wide variety of dramas, including celebrated Play such as The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, All My Sons, and Death of a Salesman, which are studied and performed w...
    : The Crucible
    The Crucible

    The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play based on the actual events that, in 1692, led to the Salem Witch Trials, a series of hearings before local magistrates to prosecute over 150 people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693....
     (M,F)
  • Nicholas Mosley
    Nicholas Mosley

    Nicholas Mosley, 3rd Baron Ravensdale, 7th Baronet Military Cross is a British novelist. He is the eldest son of Oswald Mosley and Lady Cynthia Mosley, a daughter of George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India and Foreign Secretary....
    : Natalie Natalia
    Natalie Natalia

    Natalie Natalia is a novel by Nicholas Mosley, 3rd Baron Ravensdale first published in 1971 in literature about a middle-aged British Member of Parliament who, while seemingly on the brink of insanity, conducts an adultery affair with the wife of a colleague....
     (M)
  • Iris Murdoch
    Iris Murdoch

    Dame Jean Iris Murdoch Order of the British Empire was an Ireland-born British people author and philosopher, best known for her stories regarding ethical and sexual themes....
    : A Severed Head
    A Severed Head

    A Severed Head is a satire, sometimes farce 1961 novel by Iris Murdoch.Primary themes include marriage, adultery, and incest within a group of civilized and educated people....
     (M,F)
  • John O'Hara
    John O'Hara

    John Henry O'Hara was an United States writer born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. He initially made a name for himself with his short stories and later became a best-selling novelist whose works include Appointment in Samarra and BUtterfield 8....
    : Elizabeth Appleton
    Elizabeth Appleton

    Elizabeth Appleton is a novel by John O'Hara first published in 1963 in literature about a rich New York woman born in 1910 who, aged 21, marries beneath her....
     (F)
  • Boris Pasternak
    Boris Pasternak

    Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Nobel Prize-winning Russian poet and writer. In the West he is best known for his epic novel Doctor Zhivago , a tragedy whose events span the last period of Tsarist Russia and the early days of the Soviet Union....
    : Doctor Zhivago
    Doctor Zhivago (novel)

    Doctor Zhivago is a 20th century novel by Boris Pasternak. The novel is named after its protagonist, Yuri Zhivago, a medical doctor and poet....
     (M)
  • Raymond Radiguet
    Raymond Radiguet

    Raymond Radiguet was a France author.He was born in Saint-Maur-des-Foss?s, Val-de-Marne close to Paris, the son of a caricaturist. In 1917 he moved to the city....
    : Le Bal du Comte d'Orgel (F)
  • Irwin Shaw
    Irwin Shaw

    Irwin Shaw was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author....
    : Lucy Crown
    Lucy Crown

    Lucy Crown is a novel by Irwin Shaw first published in 1956 in literature. It is about a wife and mother—the eponymous character—who, in the summer of 1937, begins an affair with a young man whom the Crowns have hired as a companion for their fragile son Tony....
     (F)
  • Rabindranath Tagore
    Rabindranath Tagore

    , also known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali people mystic, Brahmo poet, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and Music of Bengal in the late 19th and early 20th centuries....
    : The Home and the World
    The Home and the World

    The Home and the World 1916 is a 1916 novel by Rabindranath Tagore....
     (F)
  • Leo Tolstoy
    Leo Tolstoy

    Leo Tolstoy, or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy Tolstoy's further talents as essayist, dramatist and Education reform made him the most influential member of the aristocracy Tolstoy....
    : Anna Karenina
    Anna Karenina

    Anna Karenina , is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger....
     (F)
  • Scott Turow
    Scott Turow

    Scott Turow is an American author as well as a practicing lawyer. Turow has written eight fiction and two nonfiction books, which have been translated into over 20 languages and have sold over 25 million copies....
    : Presumed Innocent
    Presumed Innocent

    Presumed Innocent, published in 1987, is Scott Turow first novel, which tells the story of a prosecutor charged with the murder of his colleague....
     (M)
  • Fay Weldon
    Fay Weldon

    Fay Weldon Order of the British Empire is an England author, essayist and playwright, whose work has been associated with feminism. In her fiction, Weldon typically portrays contemporary women who find themselves trapped in oppressive situations caused by the patriarchy structure of Western, in particular British, society....
    : The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
    The Life and Loves of a She-Devil

    The Life and Loves of a She-Devil is a 1983 in literature novel by British feminism author Fay Weldon about a plain woman who, when she finds out she is being betrayed by her husband, goes to great lengths to take revenge on him and his lover, romantic novelist Mary Fisher....
     (M)
  • Edith Wharton
    Edith Wharton

    Edith Wharton was an United States novelist, short story writer and designer....
    : Ethan Frome
    Ethan Frome

    Ethan Frome is a novel that was published in 1911 in literature by the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel-winning United States author Edith Wharton....
     (M)
  • A. N. Wilson
    A. N. Wilson

    Andrew Norman Wilson , is an English writer, known for his critical biographies, novels and works of popular and cultural history. After ten years as a teacher he became a journalist and writer....
    : Scandal
    Scandal (novel)

    Scandal, or Priscilla's Kindness is a satire novel by A. N. Wilson first published in 1983 in literature about a Great Britain politician's rise and fall, the latter caused by a relationship with a prostitute....
     (M,F)
  • Stefan Zweig
    Stefan Zweig

    Stefan Zweig was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer....
    : Confusion: The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R. Von D (M)
  • James Joyce
    James Joyce

    James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Ireland expatriate author of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake , as well as the short story collection Dubliners and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ....
    : Ulysses
    Ulysses (novel)

    Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on February 2, 1922, in Paris....
     (F)