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  1. Edith Wharton: The Sense of Harmony (2014)

    Director
    Elizabeth Lennard
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 57 mins), $14.95

    Documentary. Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was the first woman to receive an honorary degree from Yale and to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Best known for novels such as The Age of Innocence, The House of...

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  2. Jane Eyre (1973) (2006)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 257 minutes), £19.99

    The 1973 BBC television adaption of the classic novel starring Sorcha Cusack and Michael Jayston.

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  3. Making ‘Junk’ (1999 Video)

    Subject
    Drama; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 1999 sale: £19.50 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    A video-based teaching pack on Barry Purchese’s adaptation of ‘Junk’, the Melvin Burgess novel of teenage heroin addiction. Includes: interviews with Burgess, the production team and cast of...

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  4. Great Expectations (1997)

    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    CD-ROM (Hybrid)

    An interactive guide to ‘Great Expectations’, including the full text; character studies; Dickens’s life and works; contemporary reviews; new research; interactive tutorials with Thelma Grove and Dr...

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  5. Great Expectations (1997 Video)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £29.95 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    An introduction to ‘Great Expectations’, with sequences filmed on location at Dickens’s house and dramatisations of key scenes coupled with commentary and analysis by Thelma Grove and Dr David Parker.

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  6. Tale of Two Cities, A 1 (1997 Video)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £29.95 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    An introduction to ‘A Tale of Two Cities’, presenting an overview of the work, including characters and plot development, and a look at life in Dickensian times, interwoven with analysis by Dr Margaret...

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  7. Tale of Two Cities, A 2 (1997 Multimedia)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    CD-ROM

    An interactive guide to ‘A Tale of Two Cities’, containing the complete text together with interactive tutorials with Dr Margaret Reynolds and Dr John Rignall, dramatised film extracts, character...

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  8. Wide Sargasso Sea: Real and Imaginary Islands (1997 Video)

    Producer
    Amanda Willett
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the life and work of Jean Rhys, born and brought up on the Caribbean island of Dominica, and her most well-known novel, ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’.

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  9. Audience with Charles Dickens, An (1996 Video)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (125 minutes)

    Simon Callow re-enacts the public readings given by Charles Dickens, reading extracts from five of the most popular Dickens novels. The readings aim for an accurate re-creation of Dickens’s style - costume...

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  10. Building the Perfect Beast (1996 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Coe
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min.

    Presents a wide range of views about the importance and possible meaning of the Creature in Mary Shelley’s novel ‘Frankenstein’. Identifies the mythic status that the work seems to have acquired in...

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