Before "Fifty Shades of Grey," there was Anne Rice's provocative take on the timeless fairy tale "Sleeping Beauty. " In the final volume of Anne Rice's…
Set during the Napoleonic wars at a time of national economic struggles, "Shirley" is an unsentimental yet passionate depiction of conflict among classes, sexes, and generations.…
There are few more convincing, less sentimental accounts of passionate love than the story of the tormented Heathcliff, who falls wildly in love with Catherine Earnshaw, the daughter of his benefactor, and of the violence and misery that result from t…