Alison Lurie

Frederic J Whiton Professor of American Literature Alison Lurie

Gathers stories by Walter de la Mare, Philip K. Dick, Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Tanith Lee, Ursula Le Guin, Bernard Malamud, E. Nesbit, Robert Louis Stevenson, H.G. Wells, and Oscar Wilde

The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales

Faculty wife Emily Stockwell Turner is beautiful, rich, and principled. However, five years in a marriage devoid of passion is enough to propel Emmy, despite her principles, into an affair with silver-tongued Will Thomas, a self-confessed libertine. The shocking, unforeseen consequences of their affair shatter Emmy's most cherished delusions about friendship, romance, and the ties that bind.

Love and Friendship

Vinnie Miller, a professor of children's literature, and Fred Turner, an assistant professor at the same American university, pursue their separate affairs in London during the same six-month period

Foreign Affairs

Bedlam breaks loose at the Tate household as a four-way conflict erupts between Brian and Erica and their two teenage children

The War Between the Tates

Polly Aller, a single parent and compassionate feminist, researches the untimely death of painter Lorin Jones, only to be exposed to fast-paced worlds beyond her experiece and her own difficult questions

Frederic J Whiton Professor of American Literature Alison Lurie

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