From King Lear to Jane Austen, Euripides to Sigmund Freud, history's greatest families prove that they are not always alike. Among the contributors: Eudora Welty, Thomas Hardy, Philip Larkin, Amy Chua, Leo Tolstoy, Julias Caesar, Moses Maimonides, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jamaica Kincaid, Hesiod, William Styron, Anne Fadiman, Garret Keizer