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George Bernard Shaw: A Concise Biography
Item# 43984
© 2011
37 Min.
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This overview of George Bernard Shaw's life and work from the Famous Authors series starts in Dublin, introducing Shaw's family and his mother's voice teacher and influential family friend, George Van...
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Sir Walter Scott: A Concise Biography
Item# 43982
© 2011
36 Min.
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Opening with an excerpt from “The Lady of the Lake,” this introduction to the life and work of Sir Walter Scott from the Famous Authors series contextualizes life in Scotland in the late 18th century....
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George Eliot: A Concise Biography
Item# 43967
© 2011
35 Min.
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This overview of the life and literature of George Eliot from the Famous Authors series follows Eliot’s comfortable childhood through the several phases of her education and religious development, dur...
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Placing the Author: Wordsworth, de Quincey, and Dove Cottage
Item# 48286
© 2010
20 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-680-8
Determined to live a life of “divinity and truth,” William Wordsworth took up residence in a rustic cottage to make real his romantic notions about nature and poetry. Shot on location at Dove Cottage,...
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Masterpiece Classic: Wuthering Heights
Item# 43632
© 2009
142 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61733-683-6
The Earnshaw children expect gifts from their father when he returns to Wuthering Heights after a trip, but are instead greeted with the arrival of Heathcliff, an adopted young Gypsy boy. Quiet and my...
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Masterpiece Classic: Jane Austen's Persuasion
Item# 43630
© 2007
92 Min.
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At the age of 19, Anne Elliot fell deeply in love with the handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth...but with neither fortune nor rank to recommend him, she was persuaded by a family friend t...
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Masterpiece Theatre: Mansfield Park
Item# 43625
© 2007
90 Min.
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In this dramatization of one of Jane Austen’s most complex plots, Billie Piper (Doctor Who, The Ruby in the Smoke) stars as Fanny Price, a young girl plucked from poverty and taken to live with prospe...
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Robert Louis Stevenson: A Concise Biography
Item# 43986
© 2006
33 Min.
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In this introduction to Robert Louis Stevenson's life and work from the Famous Authors series, the audience gets a look at 19th-century Scotland and the members of Stevenson's family. By the time Stev...
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Thomas Hardy: A Concise Biography
Item# 43969
© 2006
35 Min.
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This program from the Famous Authors series offers an overview of the biography and works of Thomas Hardy. The film introduces the writer’s hometown of Dorchester, which was a strong part of his ident...
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Masterpiece Classic: Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey
Item# 43631
© 2006
90 Min.
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Catherine Morland has a too-ordinary life and a feverish imagination. When she gets invited to Bath, she is immersed in a world of elaborate balls and handsome men-and when Henry Tilney takes her to h...
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