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1) My Ántonia
Author
Language
English
Description
MY ANTONIA is the wistful tale of an immigrant girl from Bohemia, who has settled in Nebraska. Narrated by Antonia's childhood friend Jim Burden, the novel draws heavily upon Willa Cather's own formative years, as well as, through the persona of Jim, Cather's experience of New York, where she worked as Editor of the MCCLURE magazine. MY ANTONIA is the third in a sequence of Cather's works which deal with immigrant settlers in the USA. Writing as a...
2) Middlemarch
Author
Language
English
Description
Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career; and, the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past.
Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Set in Quebec at the turn of the 19th to 20th century, the story of Agnes White, a lonely orphaned girl fascinated by the "wrong" things--microscopes, dissections, and anatomy instead of more ladylike interests--who rises to the status of one of the world's most celebrated pioneering women doctors. Not only does she break through patriarchal academic barriers; she masters the science of the human heart, becoming a scholar of international fame, all...
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
©2017.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Andrew Carnegie funded fifty-nine public libraries in Kansas in the early 20th century, but it was frontier women who organized waffle suppers, minstrel shows, and women's baseball games to buy books to fill them. Now, a century later, Angelina returns to her father's hometown of New Hope to complete her dissertation on the Carnegie libraries, just as Traci and Gayle arrive in town, Traci as an artist-in-residence at the renovated Carnegie Arts Center...
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (251 min.) : silent, black and white (with tinted sequences) ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (14 pages : illustrations ; 15 cm).
Language
None
Description
Having pioneered the art and technology of cinema during its infancy (organizing a system of film production at the Gaumont Studios in France), Alice Guy Blache moved to the United States where she co-founded the Solax Company, where she served as head of a production. Enjoying complete creative freedom, she explored long-form storytelling, alternating between serious dramatizations of the early Twentieth-century American experience.
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.
Publisher
Severin Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
12 Blu-rays (1,894 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 CDs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) + 1 booklet (154 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm)
Language
Multiple
Description
The most comprehensive collection of its kind begins with the definitive genre documentary of our time, Kier-La Janisse's 'Woodlands dark and days bewitched.' From there, experience 19 of the best-known, least-known, rarely-seen, and thought-lost classics of folk horror from around the world.
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