a little more modern (though I swear the women in it engage in the making of pies), but it shares one important trait with its predecessors--it's all about self-sacrificing, angelic women who don't get what they want

a retelling of Lear, of course, from a somewhat post-modern feminist point of view

a re-telling of the King Lear story

a drama about an American family who meets with tragedy on their land

a melodramatic story about an Iowa farm family ripped apart by incest and greed

an exemplar of what the historian and the historical novelist Thomas Fleming calls a 'novel of the historical imagination

a marvelous book, forget about the movie

a terrible book by Jane Smiley