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  1. Time Regained (1999)

    Director
    Raul Ruiz
    Subject
    French studies; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 155 minutes), £19.99

    Raoul Ruiz directs this complex adaptation of the final volume of IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME, Marcel Proust’s masterwork. On his deathbed in 1922, Proust begins reflecting upon his past experiences, but the...

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  2. Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924) (Video)

    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 35 minutes), £13.74

    Franz Kafka was born in Prague, still under the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was well educated and from an early age he determined to become a writer. He worked in an insurance company and in his ample free...

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  3. R.K. Narayan: India’s Chekhov (1983)

    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (NTSC, 52 minutes), $149.95

    The stories of R. K. Narayan embody the indescribable charm of learning about a new country by living among the locals. In this classic interview, Narayan introduces Malgudi, the fictional setting for his...

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  4. Chant d’Amour, Un (2003)

    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 25 minutes), £15.99

    Set in a French prison, this silent, poetic, and intensely physical vision of homosexual desire reveals the recurrent themes that unite Genet’s work and the cinematic techniques - of collage, flashback and...

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  5. Jude the Obscure (1971) (2005)

    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 278 minutes), £19.99

    Robert Powell stars as Jude Fawley in this faithful and uncompromising BBC adaptation of one of Thomas Hardy’s most bitter novels. Born into rural poverty, young Jude Fawley refuses to accept his lot in...

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  6. Dracula (2006)

    Director
    Bill Eagles
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £19.99

    A terrifying new version of Bram Stoker’s classic tale of sex, death and desire. Returning to the original novel for his inspiration, Stewart Harcourt’s script draws both on elements of Stoker’s own...

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  7. News from Nowhere (1990 Video)

    Director
    Trevor A Scott
    Producer
    Michael Orrom
    Subject
    English language and literature; History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 90 min., 1996 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    William Morris’s ‘News from Nowhere’ is one of the best-remembered Victorian Utopian novels. It indicts the brutalization and wastefulness of Victorian industrialism, and envisions the world as it...

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  8. Commissioner of Sewers: William S Burroughs (1991 Video)

    Director
    Klaus Maeck
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 1997 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

    A drama-documentary using interview and archival material, paintings and clips of William S Burroughs’ film appearances (including DECODER and Gus van Sant’s DRUGSTORE COWBOY and THANKSGIVING PRAYER)...

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  9. Madame Bovary (2005)

    Subject
    French studies; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 211 minutes), £19.99

    1975 television adaptation by Rodney Bennett of Gustave Flaubert’s novel, starring Francesca Annis and Tom Conti. Trapped on a provincial French farm with her widowed father, Emma dreams of leading a...

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  10. Great Writers: Anthony Burgess

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 45 minutes), $19.99

    British novelist and critic Anthony Burgess (1917-1993), was best known for his controversial novel, A Clockwork Orange (1962). He was born in Manchester and was educated at the University of Manchester. He...

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