Search results for "the age of innocence".

Set amid the stifled world of New York high society during the 1870s, an aristocratic lawyer struggles with his growing passion for his fiancee's beautiful cousin, an expatriate countess who has abandoned her marriage.

...allegory to the unraveling of events in his own life. The two tales intertwined, ultimately serve as a powerful summation of the loss of innocence--not just of Nic but of humanity and our species...

A coming-of-age story in which a young boy, Benjamin, recalls broken illusions of his family and his dreams as he and his sister set out in search of their father in the big city.

...servitude to a tannery at the age of 13 and surrounded by the foul odors that accompany...only method to preserve her innocence and fresh beauty will require murder. Plaguing the countryside with a series of gruesome killings, Grenouille...

...eponymous gang lives through a dizzying succession of racial, cultural and generational conflicts marking the end of an age of innocence, as the greaser paradigm of the 1950s encounters the first...

...garden and heads for the ‘farm’ he has seen in the near distance. There...Shmuel, a boy his own age who lives a parallel, alien existence on the other side of a barbed wire fence...pajamas leads him from innocence to a dawning awareness...

...points that explore the major phases of what could be anyone's existence, beginning with the innocence of youth, moving to the freedom and choice of adulthood, ultimately ending with the regret of old age.

...explores Latinos coming-of-age and coming-to-terms...Mexican telenovelas in the comfort of his bedroom, still cluttered...havoc with stereotypes of the latin macho, gay or straight...is ultimately a story of loss of innocence and first love.

...literate bachelor brothers, age 59 to 71, living in squalor...suffocated his brother Bill the previous night, in the bed they'd shared for decades...thereafter, Delbert maintained his innocence, and the people of Munnsville rallied behind him...