A mysterious captain assembles a ship and crew for a secret and dangerous voyage.

Two women engage in romantic relationships with two men against the backdrop of early 20th Century England.

A university student in St. Petersburg is drawn into the activities of a revolutionary group against his will.

Two sisters experience very different marriages, and one is saved from a disastrous liaison.

A young man ventures out on his own and suffers the consequences of his pride and impulsiveness.

A Parisian news reporter is assigned to travel across Asia by train and report on the sights, experiences, and interesting characters along the way.

A young writer’s ruinous affair leads him down a path of suffering, obsession, and finally redemption.

Starvation drives an aspiring writer to the brink of insanity as he struggles to escape extreme poverty, and simultaneously to pursue a woman, in late nineteenth-century Christiania.

A mysterious lawyer shows up in a town, opens a practice, and starts a newspaper.

A mercenary army, employed by Carthage to fight its wars, rebels after not being paid.

A young sea apprentice finds himself in charge of a ship, which is led astray to a land where the slave trade abounds.

A young daughter seeks independence on her own terms.