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Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
The most autobiographical of Dickens' works, David Copperfield often echoes the writer's own life. It tells a moving story of David's journey from birth to maturity, a journey which inextricably links his life with some of Dickens' most colorful and extraordinary families.
5) Hard times
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-mad, self-important banker Josiah Bounderby, though she does not love him. But soon finds herself...
6) Persuasion
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1995.
Language
English
Description
Anne Elliot is persuaded to break off an engagement to Capt. Wentworth. They meet again eight years later.
Series
Great authors volume 2
Publisher
Opus Arte
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
The most autobiographical of Dickens' works, David Copperfield often echoes the writer's own life. It tells a moving story of David's journey from birth to maturity, a journey which inextricably links his life with some of Dickens' most colorful and extraordinary families.
11) Jane Eyre
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997.
Language
English
Description
A passionate young woman takes a job at Thornfield, an old house with a moody master and a demented third-floor tenant.
12) Emma
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of Jane Austen's novel about Emma Woodhouse, a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people's affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. Despite her interest in romance, Emma is clueless about her own feelings, and her relationship with Mr. Knightly.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Film based on the classic novel by Anthony Trollope, the story follows Louis and Emily Trevalyan. After a blissful first year of marriage, things turn darker when a roguish Colonel takes an interest in Emily that fans the flames of Louis's jealousy.
Series
Criterion collection volume 158
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
A witty, delightful story about a lovestruck suitor named Jack whose fiancee can only love a man named Ernest.
16) Vanity fair
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
A mini-series based on Thackeray's story of an amoral beauty determined to scheme and seduce her way into Britain's upper classes.
17) Oliver Twist
Series
Criterion collection volume 32
Publisher
Home Vision Cinema
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
A workhouse orphan is forced into criminal activities by Fagin, who leads the underground gang of pickpockets.
18) Mansfield Park
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
When Fanny Price is sent away to live with her rich cousins, she's meant to learn the ways of proper society but manages to enlighten them as well.
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