Four men vow to cheat master swindler Harvey Metcalfe of the millions he has stolen from them. An English lord, a society doctor, a French art dealer and an Oxford don set out on a campaign of intrigue and subterfuge in this stunning novel of fraud and revenge.
Emma tries to impose her match making ideas on everyone and finds that sometimes she should desist. As daughter of the richest, most important man in the small provincial village of Highbury, Emma Woodhouse is firmly convinced that it is her right--perhaps even her "duty"--To arrange the lives of others. Considered by most critics to be Austen's most technically brilliant achievement, "Emma" sparkles with ironic insights into self-deception, self-discovery, and the interplay of love and power
Criminal defense lawyer Alejandro "Sandy" Stern copes with his wife's suicide, his three grown children and a government investigation of his brother-in-law's successful brokerage house.