William Kane, a Boston banker, and Abel Rosnovski, a Polish immigrant who built a hotel empire, spend decades as bitter enemies.

Ten years after Mrs.

At Clarissa Dalloway’s evening party in London, she hears that a young war veteran she never met, Septimus Warren Smith, has killed himself by jumping from a window to escape his doctors.

Quoyle, a clumsy newspaperman whose life fell apart after his unfaithful wife Petal died in a car crash, moves with his daughters to his family’s ancestral home in Newfoundland.

Tom Wingo, who came to New York to help his twin sister Savannah after her suicide attempt, finally tells her psychiatrist, Dr.

Conrad Jarrett, a teenager recovering from a suicide attempt after his older brother Buck drowned in a boating accident, finally accepts that the death was not his fault with help from his psychiatrist, Dr.

Bean, the tiny genius from the streets of Rotterdam who served as Ender Wiggin’s second-in-command, retells the events of Ender’s Game from his perspective.

Roberta, Peter and Phyllis, whose father was taken away in disgrace, discover he was falsely imprisoned for selling state secrets.

In the Mowgli stories of The Jungle Book, Mowgli, the boy raised by wolves, kills the tiger Shere Khan with the help of a buffalo stampede and lays its skin on the Council Rock.

Juan “Johnnie” Rico, who joined the Mobile Infantry to fight the alien Arachnids (“Bugs”), becomes an officer commanding his own platoon, Rico’s Roughnecks.