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Sixteen-year-old Ottilie von Faber inherits the A. W. Faber pencil factory in 1893. Obedient to her grandfather's will, she marries without love, and after five births and twenty years, she leaves the marriage for a secret love - at a high price.
Sixteen-year-old Elizabeth Drummond travels to Australia to marry a wealthy cousin. A loveless marriage, a gold rush, a powerful mistress, and a search for happiness in the wilds of New South Wales.
Thirty-year-old widow Julia decides to sell her beach house after her husband's death. In doing so, she changes the lives of all the families who have rented it for years — teenagers Chris, Maggie and Joe, and Peter.
Mandala is one of Pearl S. Buck's most mature and spiritual novels, a rare work set in India. The title Mandala (symbol of wholeness) perfectly captures the core of the story: a search for meaning, wholeness, and the reconciliation of opposites.
Two love stories in a bound omnibus: Alers tells the story of a marriage imposed by a will; Gill about the attraction between an air force officer and a woman he meets by chance - they soon realize they are made for each other.
Florentino Ariza waited more than half a century to renew his oath of eternal fidelity and undying love to Fermina Daza, his love from his youthful days, who, after a long and frustrated love affair, had already rejected him once and married someone else.