Jenny has devoted her life to her husband, the famous naturalist Wilkie Walker. But this year, as winter comes on, Wilkie seems distant and depressed. In desperation Jenny persuades him to visit Key West, but the sun and tropical scenery do nothing to cheer him up....

\"A brilliant and seemingly effortless accomplishment...steady uninterrupted delight\" Sunday Telegraph Faculty wife Emily Stockwell Turner is beautiful, rich, and principled. However, five years in a marriage devoid of passion is enough to propel Emmy, despite her principles, into an affair with a silver-tongued self-confessed libertine....

\"Delightful... Her characters are, as always, wonderfully imperfect\" New York Review of Books Alan has changed because he\"s injured his back. Pain has altered his appearance and made him glum, demanding and resentful. His wife Jane has to do everything for him - fetching, carrying, shopping, cooking, even dressing and undressing him....

\"Marvellous entertainment\" Sunday Times Just married and newly arrived in Los Angeles are Paul and Katherine Cattleman. Paul responds immediately to the sunny, sprawling cosmopolitan city but to Katherine the main impression is of dirt and smog....

Brian and Erica Tate appear to have every advantage in life: academic careers, two children, nice friends and money. But when Brian begins an affair with one of his students the disintegration of their lives is swift and shocking....

\"If you\"re coming to Lurie for the first time, you must begin with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Foreign Affairs\" Guardian Vinnie Miner is an American professor of children\"s literature on her way to London for six months of research. Settling into her aeroplane seat she finds herself accosted by Chuck, a brash engineer wearing cowboy boots....

\"Vinnie Miner, 54-year-old Anglophile professor, is in London on a six-month foundation grant. So is her young colleague, Fred Turner. Vinnie is plain and resignedly self-reliant; Fred is arrestingly handsome and moping after a breakup with his wife. Vinnie and Fred have love affairs in London....

Emmy Turner, die reiche, unschuldige und schöne Frau eines emporstrebenden, ehrgeizigen Dozenten am Convers College, erwacht und entdeckt, daß sie ihren Mann Holman nicht mehr liebt. Überzeugt davon, daß ihr Leben......

Description: INTERACT WITH LITERATURE offers a wide range of original literary texts from intermediate level upwards (unabridged short stories or extracts from novels, as well as complete unabridged plays) from English-speaking countries, designed to introduce students to the world of literature....