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1) Howards End
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Language
English
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The self-interested disregard of a dying woman's bequest, an impulsive girl's attempt to help an impoverished clerk, and the marriage between an idealist and a materialist — all intersect at a Hertfordshire estate called Howards End. The fate of this beloved country home symbolizes the future of England itself in E. M. Forster's exploration of social, economic, and philosophical trends, as exemplified by three families: the Schlegels, symbolizing...
Author
Series
Daughters of Mannerling volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1995
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
151 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The haughty Beverley girls are left improverished when their father gambles away his possessions and fortune. The daughters now feel it is their sister Isabella's duty to marry someone who will buy their beloved home back for them.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Edition
[Widescreen format].
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 174 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Presents a television adaptation of the class Jane Austen novel in which two sisters of opposing temperaments share the pangs of tragic love, and discover that after their mutual suffering brings a closer understanding between them, true love finally triumphs.
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English
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On a moonlit road in Hampstead, Walter Hartright is accosted by a stranger dressed from head to toe in white, who asks the way to London. Shortly thereafter he is overtaken by a carriage in pursuit of this mysterious woman who has evidently escaped from an asylum. He then unwinds a story of abduction, madness, false identity and shameful family secret.
5) Bleak House
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English
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Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more imaginatively embodied, but nowhere either is the mixture of comedy and angry satire more deftly managed. Bleak House defies a single description. It...
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