Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake, with Anthony Burgess

In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.

Michael is a widower who is struggling to adjust to his new role as the sole caretaker of his two children. Still reeling from the death of his wife, he has been plagued by terrifying apparitions. When he volunteers at a local literary festival, he finds himself drawn to Lena, an empathetic author of supernatural fiction. While Lena tries to help Michael with the mystery of his nightmarish visions, she must contend with problems of her own, as she’s being jealously pursued by self-obsessed novelist Nicholas, her one-time lover. As the festival progresses, the three adults’ lives converge and collide.

An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.

Stranded in the open sea after a fatal accident, a young woman and her two friends are rescued by a fishing vessel's captain, unaware that the ship harbors a chilling secret.

Struggling artist Geoffrey Carroll meets Sally while on holiday in the country. A romance develops, but he doesn't tell her he's already married. Suffering from mental illness, Geoffrey returns home where he paints an impression of his wife as the angel of death and then promptly poisons her. He marries Sally but after a while he finds a strange urge to paint her as the angel of death too and history seems about to repeat itself.

ไม่นานหลังจากย้ายเข้าไปอยู่ในอพาร์ตเมนต์ใหม่ เดวิดมีแขกที่เขาไม่ได้รับเชิญมาเยือน เมื่อวิญญาณของเอลิซาเบธ มาสเตอร์สันมายืนกรานว่าอพาร์ตเมนต์แห่งนี้เป็นของเธอ

When Harry Levine, an aging, unsuccessful Greenwich Village writer, is fired from his job as restaurant doorman, he calls on friend and mentor Jake, ostensibly to collect a long-standing debt.

Drama critic Larry Mackay, his wife Kate and their four sons move from their crowded Manhattan apartment to an old house in the country. While housewife Kate settles into suburban life, Larry continues to enjoy the theater and party scene of New York.

เรื่องราวเกิดขึ้นเมื่อเกาะเล็กเกาะน้อยๆแห่งหนึ่งในไอร์แลนด์ที่ประชาชนส่วนมากเป็นชาวเรือ อาศัยอยู่กันอย่างเงียบๆสุข แม้กระนั้นรวมทั้งมีอสูรกายเค้าหน้าราวกับปลาหมึกยักษ์จากนอกโลก บุกขึ้นเกาะกะจะดูดเลือดพวกเขาให้หมดจด ทางเดียวที่พวกเขาจะปกป้องตนเองได้ก็คือ เพียรพยายามเมาปลิ้นเพื่อเลือดตัวเองเป็นพิษ จนถึงแม้กระทั้งเอเลี่ยนก็ยังจะต้องอี๋

Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.