THE WANDERING JEW (1,328 pages): a melodrama with a strong message and colorful characters, whose strengths and weaknesses form an integral part of the story, is a work of tremendous television potential, providing high concept drama, as fascinating a project as any major property to hit the screen today.  Story-line focuses on Joseph, the cobbler of Jerusalem who mocked Christ on the day of His Crucifixion...the sinner condemned to wander undying throughout the centuries, all over the World; and Herodias, the Wandering Jewess, who demanded the head of John the Baptist to be served upon a silver platter, who is also condemned to live throughout centuries of sorrow, or to dance forever.  It is the story of the legacy of Marcus de Rennepont, an ancestor who was despoiled by the Jesuits, and salvaged out of his ruined estate a house and 50,000 crowns, which he placed into the hands of a faithful Jewish friend Samuel, who promised to invest it profitably.  One hundred-and-fifty years later, his descendants gather at number three, Saint Francis Street, Paris, to receive their share of his legacy, now amounting to 212,175,000 francs; but the future goes up in smoke, and the long punishment suffered by the Wandering Jew and the Wandering Jewess ends.

THE PRINCE OF INDIA (130 pages): is the story of the Jewish shoemaker condemned by our Lord to wander all over the Earth until His Second Coming.  This Wandering Jew is first introduced at the hidden sarcophagus of Hiram the King of Tyre, which he has not visited for one thousand years.  He pays a short visit to Byzantium, where he possesses another treasure vault, departing for China for a fifty year stay, and returning with the purpose of teaching men that God is the Lord.  Next, he goes to Constantinople, to reveal this to the Greek Church, although he is at this time in league with the heir-apparent to the Turkish Empire.  The thread of romance appears in the love of this young Turk for Princess Irene (E-ren-ay), a relative of Constantine, Emperor of Byzantium; and the fondness of the Prince of India for a little Jewess, Lael.  The mission of the Prince of India at Constantinople is unsuccessful, and in his rage and disappointment at the treatment he receives, he sets fire to his possessions, fleeing to the side of Mohammed.  The capture of Constantinople is graphically treated.  Borne down on the battlefield and presumed to be dead, the Prince of India rises with renewed youth to wander forth again, both as an outcast and a stranger to his own generation...

THE ABBEY (152 pages): Relics of the Monastery founder, Blessed Isaac Edward Leibowitz, are discovered by chance in an ancient fall-out shelter by Brother Francis Gerard of Utah, a novice guided by the Pilgrim (the Wandering Jew), while he is fasting in the desert during Lent, and which are skilfully used by the Abbot to have their founder canonized.  Brother Francis returns to the Abbey, informing the other novices of his experience, who improve and elaborate upon his original story, until a rumor circulates that the young novice actually met, in the guise of the Pilgrim, the Blessed Leibowitz himself!  The books which are so carefully preserved by the followers of Leibowitz are finally read by a man who is capable of making  some sense of them, as scientific civilization begins to develop.  Thon Taddeo reinvents basic concepts of electricity...by this new illumination, numerous agents of an ambitious Prince examine the Memorabilia, making secret sketches of the fortification of the Abbey, in order to capture it.  The progress of science makes a deadly full-circle...back to rockets, satellites, and nuclear weapons.  The Abbot of the Monastery once again finds himself dealing with problems of radiation, civilian casualties, and euthanasia.  As the bombs fall, yet another generation escapes...

THE JEW (482 pages): John the Evangelist is the original Cartaphilus, but he is soon absorbed by the true Wandering Jew, who was once Isaac Laquedem, the Captain in the army of Pontius Pilate.  This Wandering Jew is seeking neither Christ nor Death, but sensation in the form of sexual enjoyment: "unendurable pleasure indefinitely prolonged".  The continual and continuous love affairs in which the Wandering Jew indulges in are with the same woman, the Wandering Jewess, in whatever guise she may appear.  Some of the historical figures encountered are Charlemagne, Columbus, Luther, Spinoza, Rousseau, Frederick the Great; but others are more exotic personalities...Don Juan and Gilles de Retz, and near the end, Nietzsche.

THE JEWESS (438 pages): The protagonist is Salome, the female counterpart of THE JEW, who is condemned to an eternal succession of lives upon Earth, or to dance forever, because she prompted the execution of John the Baptist.  Her driving quest is to achieve superiority over men, and her vow is to conquer the Moon, which keeps women in biological bondage.  She meets Jokanaan (John the Baptist), who is preaching that he is Elijah, and angrily causes His death in the manner described in the Gospel According to Mark...before he dies, Jokanaan says she must continue to live for eternity, because she is: "too vile for the grave".  She first learns of the Wandering Jew through the wise man Apollonius, her teacher, expressing the hope that she may someday meet him.  Resuming her wandering life, she meets the formidable Queen Zenobia of Palmyra, and the two try an experiment in female domination, in which Zenobia frees all of Her female slaves, placing women in important governmental positions.  Then Zenobia dies, and Salome temporarily retires to a quiet life upon the Rhine, having meanwhile become enamored by her immortal turtle, Lakshmi, which symbolizes female revolution.  Salome and Cartaphilus settle down in South America, where they marry.  She contemplates the birth of Homuncula, the one in whom the phrase: "unendurable pleasure indefinitely prolonged" may find infinite gratification.  The script concludes as Salome and Cartaphilus sing praises of love...

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