Henry Carter Hull

A reporter traces a lonely widower who wrote a heart-felt message, put it in a bottle, and threw it in the sea.

Inge is a feisty German mail-order bride who has come to Minnesota to marry Olaf, a young Norwegian immigrant farmer of few words. But in a post-WWI, anti-German climate, the local minister openly forbids the marriage. Inge and Olaf fall in love despite the town's disapproval. But when the town banker attempts to foreclose on the farm of his friend Frandsen, Olaf takes a stand.

Johnny is an ex-con starting over as a short-order cook in a New York City coffee shop. He falls in love with Frankie, a waitress in the shop, but she wants nothing to do with him.

In early nineteenth-century Yorkshire, the passionate attachment between a headstrong young girl and a foundling boy brought up by her father causes tragedy for them and many others, even in the next generation.

An actor and actress have an adulterous affair while playing the screen roles of an engaged scientist and the tainted woman with whom he becomes obsessed.

In late seventeenth-century England, Lorna - the granddaughter of the head of a nobly-born family of robbers and outlaws - falls in love with John Ridd, a man intent on avenging his father's death upon the Doone clan.

Two 19th-century English sisters of opposite temperaments who have recently fallen upon hard financial times go through the joys and heartaches of romantic love.