An unexpected letter reminds a man that he was once voted "Most Likely To Succeed" by his graduating class. Even though both world wars have changed the course of his life, he realizes that he is not unhappy.

When a young father is hired for an English instructorship position, he struggles to balance playing the role of a teacher and meeting the university’s demands for a published scholar.

Facing two unwilling booksellers in a bankruptcy case, a lawyer is forced to reckon with arson and a faked death.

As a university professor acts as a sounding board for everyone else’s problems, her own stress mounts to a dangerous peak.

Cutthroat department politics leave a young English professor in danger of losing his job and falling into obscurity. To save himself, he seizes on a playful lie that soon spirals far out of his control.

A judge notorious for his harsh rulings finds himself conflicted when his beloved daughter begs him to save her criminal husband.

A Vietnam War veteran grapples with guilt over his wartime offenses. As memories from his past threaten to overwhelm him, he risks his legal career to try and rinse the blood from his hands.

When a philosophy professor is called into a committee meeting for inappropriate behavior, she stews over what got her here, and how.

After he suffers from a coronary at age thirty-eight, a Jewish lawyer from Manhattan moves south to Vicksburg, Mississippi, where he uses his legal expertise to help people in need and make peace with his imminent death.

In an unspecified country destroyed by war, a former chef-turned-political prisoner escapes his chains and steals the identity of a physics professor.