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1) Ivanhoe
Author
Language
English
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Description
More than acentury after the Norman Conquest, England remains a colony of foreign warlords. Prince John plans to seize his brother's crown, his barons terrorize the country, and the mysterious outlaw Robin Hood haunts the ancient greenwood. With the secret return of King Richard and the disinherited Saxon knight Ivanhoe, Scott unfurls his splendid and tumultuous romance, featuring the tournament at Ashby-de-la-Zouch and the clash of will between Templar...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 163
Language
English
Formats
Description
Daniel becomes torn between the Gwendolyen, who is trapped into an oppressive marriage and Mirah, whom he saves from suicide. At the same time, he struggles to discover who and what he is.
Author
Series
Sister Frevisse mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After escaping Germany during WWII, Jack and Sadie Rosenblum, together with their baby daughter, settle into a life of acting "English." In post-war England, however, no golf club will admit a Rosenblum. So Jack hatches a wild idea: he'll build his own. It's an obsession Sadie does not share, particularly when Jack relocates them to a thatched roof cottage in Dorset to embark on his project.
Author
Series
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a modern re-imagining of Shakespeare's Shylock--Simon Strulovitch, riddled with grief after the death of his wife, struggles with his daughter Beatrice's betrayal of family and his daughter Jessica's rejection of her Jewish roots.
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
359 pages : music ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's the spring of 1938 and no longer safe to be a Jew in Vienna. Nineteen-year-old Elise Landau realizes her only means of escape is to advertise her services as a domestic servant in England. Fate brings her ad to the attention of Christopher Rivers, handsome scion of the aristocratic Rivers family and master of Tyneford. An anxious Elise arrives at Tyneford and immediately falls under its spell. When Christopher's young son, Kit, returns home,...
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 210 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Daniel Deronda is a sensitive, intelligent, young man haunted by secrets that shroud his birth. Gwendolen Harleth is a beautiful gambler short on cash. When the two meet, sparks fly.
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