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A Spanish translation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel "The Great Gatsby" about Jay Gatsby's passion for Daisy Buchanan during the jazz age of 1922.

In 1915, Seventeen-year-old Bess Heath, the youngest daughter of the Niagara Power Company director, finishes board school and returns to her family home at the falls to find that much has changed for the worse, and when she meets the rough and fearless Tom Cole by chance, she is forced to make a difficult decision.

Julie, a wealthy young woman rebelling against her conservative father, and Abdu, an illegal immigrant struggling to avoid deportation, fall in love in twenty-first-century South Africa.

Presents a lost manuscript written by Mary Shelly in 1820 and rediscovered in the fall of 1997, in which she tells the story of Maurice, a young boy who has lost his parents; and includes an introductory essay that explores the literary and psychological importance of the story.

Nan returns to New York after twelve years abroad with her husband, and as she tries to get her new business off the ground, she once again encounters Grayer X, who is sixteen and demands to know why she abandoned him years earlier.

On her way into the city, a young milkmaid dreams of all the things she will buy after she sells her milk.

Becoming wealthier and more socially connected throughout their marriage, Adam and Cynthia Morey also find themselves increasingly subject to the temptations of excess and risky behavior while their children struggle with their own privilege-based challenges.

After he rises from a working-class New York Jewish neighborhood in the 1970s to the highest circles of Manhattan society, Robert Vishniak sees his carefully crafted identity start to unravel after he bumps into a beautiful woman from the old neighborhood.

In order to pay her way through NYU, Nanny takes a job caring for the only son of a wealthy family, where she soon realizes her real job responsibility is making sure the Park Avenue wife who doesn't work, cook, clean, or raise her own child has a smooth day.

A young drug dealer chronicles a week in the lives of several bored, rich Manhattan teens who entertain themselves with drugs and sex while their parents vacation overseas, which culminates in a brutally violent New Year's Eve party.

Collects the comedies of playwright and humorist Paul Rudnick, including "I Hate Hamlet," a play about a struggling actor living in an apartment haunted by John Barrymore, and "Jeffrey," which takes a humorous look at gay life during the AIDS crisis.

Explores the divide between rich and poor in America and how our criminal justice system discriminates against the poor while allowing the rich to get away with their crimes.

Presents a collection of essays about wealth differences from diverse viewpoints, discussing whether such differences are good or bad for the economy and for society, and what if anything should be done about them.

Formerly rich girls, Lorrie Hollander and her sister have had to get used to living in Edgewater, their eccentric Aunt Gigi's decaying mansion, after their wealthy mother abandoned on them.

Five teens struggle to find their footing in the world atop high-tech luxury in New York City one-hundred years into the future.