In the prologue to The Lord of the Rings, a hobbit and 13 dwarves go on a quest to reclaim gold stolen from the dwarves by a dragon; in the process, the hobbit finds a mysterious ring
A hunchback is brought up by an evil archdeacon, who is secretly in love with a Gypsy, who is married to a poet but secretly in love with the head of the archers, who is betrothed to an upstanding Parisian woman
A thief becomes an honest man, but spends many years on the run from an unforgiving policeman, all the while bringing up a girl, who falls in love with a young revolutionary
A young orphan is brought from India to live with her uncle in a forbidding mansion in Yorkshire, England, and both she and her uncle (not to mention her cousin) are forever changed
Suddenly orphaned from a fire that burned down their house, three unfortunate yet very smart children go to live with a distant relative who doggedly haunts their lives in attempt after outrageous attempt to steal the fortune that their parents left
A young aristocrat moves from Paris to London and marries a French woman, during the French Revolution; he returns to Paris to save a former servant, and in the process is arrested and sentenced to the guillotine
