The Lie

A young man befriends the last surviving Civil War veteran, intending to rob him of $50,000.

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu's Army of the East defeated the Army of the West of Ishida Mitsunari. The story includes the intrigues and shifting loyalties of the various retainers, family members, and samurai.

A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.

A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer.

Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.