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"The Importance of Being Earnest" is a comedic play written by Oscar Wilde, first performed in 1895. Regarded as one of Wilde's masterpieces, the play is celebrated for its wit, humor, and satirical examination of the social conventions and manners of the Victorian era. The plot revolves around the lives of two friends, Algernon Moncrieff and Jack Worthing. To escape social obligations and responsibilities, both men create fictional identities. Algernon...
2) Persuasion
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Anne Elliot turned down Captain Wentworth's proposal of marriage, she allowed herself to be persuaded by her snobbish family's conviction of his unworthiness. But now, after a separation of eight years, Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth are to meet again and the tables have turned. Her former lover's fortunes have prospered and he is now returned from a career at sea both eligible and affluent. Anne's father, Sir Walter Elliot of Kellynch Hall,...
4) Affinity
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A socialite trying to gain purpose to her life by mentoring at a woman's prison during the late 19th century, becomes enamored with one inmate, and discovers a world of secrets, passion, and the supernatural.
5) Middlemarch
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (420 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
One double-sided disc contains episodes 1-3 on side A (200 min.) and episodes 4-6 on side B (220 min.). Based on George Elliot's novel, Middlemarch is set in early nineteenth century England and charts the impact of the Industrial Revolution on the town as it divides its population into two opposing factions: the conservatives and the liberals.
7) Scrooge
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Miserly Scrooge faces his past demons on Christmas Eve and vows to change his ways.
8) Hard times
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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...
9) Emma
Pub. Date
©1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Emma is the story of a rich, clever and beautiful young woman who can't resist orchestrating other people's love lives. As her romantic plans go ridiculously wrong, however, it's Emma herself who risks missing out on her perfect match!"--Container.
10) Dickensian
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 615 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A bold reinvention of Charles Dickens' timeless novels, it takes familiar characters on new journeys as their stories intersect in the same world. Discover the events that lead up to Miss Havisham's wedding day, the true sacrifices made by a young Lady Dedlock, what happens to ruthless moneylender Jacob Marley and more. One doesn't need to know Dickens' novels to fall in love with these stories--packed with romance, scandal and intrigue, they deliver...
11) Hard times
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (203 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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-made, self-important banker Josiah Bounderby, though she does not love him. But she soon finds...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When the beautiful and innocent Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting the manipulative Alec proves to be her downfall.
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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The story of lively and rebellious Elizabeth, one of five unmarried daughters living in the countryside of 19th century England, in a world where an advantageous marriage is a woman's sole occupation.
15) Oliver!
Pub. Date
©2005, 1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (153 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young orphan, Oliver is left to fend for himself until he is befriended by a band of young thieves who quickly train him in their craft. But Oliver is not content to be a thief for he knows that life holds great joys and true happiness cannot be stolen, but must be earned.
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Old Ebenezer Scrooge, the meanest miser in London, is visited one Christmas eve by three spirits who change his life forever. George C. Scott stars as Scrooge in this critically acclaimed version of Charles Dickens' holiday classic.
17) Mansfield Park
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Fanny Price goes to live with prosperous relatives at Mansfield Park and must navigate a labyrinth of intrigues and affairs among the occupants of the house.
Pub. Date
[2013], c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"An epic love story that spans childhood into adulthood, the film follows Heathcliff, an outsider taken in and given a home by a benevolent Yorkshire farmer, Earnshaw. Heathcliff develops a passionate relationship with the farmer's teenage daughter, Catherine, inspiring the envy and mistrust of his rough-hewn son, Hindley. Years later, when Earnshaw dies, the young adults must finally confront the intense feelings and destructive rivalries that have...
20) Emma
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Emma Woodhouse is a young woman who, having engineered the marriage of her companion, turns her attention toward making a match for the local vicar and her new protegée, Harriet Smith. Her one voice of reason and restraint is Mr. Knightley, who has known her since she was a child and who watches her behaviour with wry amusement and sometimes with real anger. Emma presides over the small provincial world of Highbury with enthusiasm, but she will...
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