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Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 33
Language
English
Description
A ne'er-do-well exploits his gentle daughter's beauty for social advancement in this masterpiece of tragic fiction. Hardy's 1891 novel defied convention to focus on the rural lower class for a frank treatment of sexuality and religion. Then and now, his sympathetic portrait of a victim of Victorian hypocrisy offers compelling reading.
3) Take my hand
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible wrong done to her patients, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wench. Montgomery, Alabama, 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference, especially in her African American community. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she intends to help...
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Great Expectations is at once a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mastery and a profound examination of moral values. Here, some of Dickens's most memorable characters come to play their part in a story whose title itself reflects the deep irony that shaped Dickens's searching reappraisal of the Victorian middle class.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 602 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When family patriarch James is killed in an auto accident, Florida is left to support herself and her three children on her own. Times are tough, but laughter is the best medicine, and soon it seems like the good times are back again.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 180
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
xvii, 979 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
Element
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
ix, 286 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Placed in caves almost 2000 years ago and not discovered until 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls provide a unique insight into Jewish and Christian origins. They have held a fascination over academics, religious leaders, and the lay public alike for the last forty-five years. From 1952, when a team of scholars was appointed and Cave 4 at Qumran was discovered - from which the materials in this book are drawn - they have been under the control of an elite...
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Special edition collector's set.
Physical Desc
15 Blu-rays : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (199 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm)
Language
Français
Description
"A progenitor of the French New Wave who became an international art-house icon, Agnès Varda was a fiercely independent, restlessly curious visionary whose work was at once personal and passionately committed to the world around her. In an abundant career in which she never stopped expanding the notion of what a movie can be, Varda forged a unique cinematic vocabulary that frequently blurs the boundaries between narrative and documentary, and entwines...
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