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Molly Gibson is a young girl who has been raised by her widowed father. During a visit to the local aristocratic "great house" of Lord and Lady Cumnor, she loses her way in the estate and falls asleep under a tree. When she wakes up, she gets distressed at the thought of spending the night at the mansion, but to her relief, her father arrives to collect her. Seven years later, Molly is an attractive and rather unworldly young woman, which arouses...
2) Swann's way
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Published in 1913, Swann's Way is the first of the seven parts of Marcel Proust's masterpiece, "Remembrance of things past," one of the major achievements of 20th-century literature. The narrator discovers that an involuntary memory triggered by some casual action, say, eating a madeleine cake or stooping to remove one's shoe, has the power to recover large areas of the past, and he sets out to resurrect his past life and the people and places that...
3) Resurrection
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When he serves on a jury at a murder trial, Prince Nekhlyudov must face the consequences of his seduction and abandonment of the defendent.
5) Siddhartha
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Image Entertainment [distributor]
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2002
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1 DVD (83 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A young man's spiritual odyssey, filmed on location in Rishikesh and Bharatpur, and based on Hesse's novella.
6) Black Beauty
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A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters.
7) Silas Marner
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A gentle linen weaver in a small English town is wrongly accused of a theft. He then goes into seclusion and finds redemption in his unselfish love for an abandoned child who mysteriously appears at his cottage.
9) Middlemarch
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Set in a provincial Victorian neighborhood, the author explores the complex social relationship and the struggle to hold fast to personal tragedy in a materialistic environment.
10) Cousin Bette
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Cousin Bette (1846) is a novel by French author Honoré de Balzac. Part of Balzac's La Comédie humaine sequence, the novel is recognized as being the author's last fully-realized work, and features several characters who appear elsewhere throughout his legendary series. It has inspired several film and television adaptations, as well as earned comparisons to Shakespeare's Othello and Tolstoy's War and Peace.
The novel focuses on the life and exploits...
11) Mrs. Dalloway
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A poignant portrayal of the thoughts and events that comprise one day in a woman's life.
12) Northanger Abbey
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When Catherine Morland is invited to a mysterious manor, she quickly comes to suspect her host of dark deeds similar to the ones found in her favorite Gothic novels.
13) Bleak House
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Bleak House defies a single description. It is a mystery story, in which Esther Summerson discovers the truth about her birth and her unknown mother's tragic life. It is a murder story, which comes to a climax in a thrilling chase, led by one of the earliest detectives in English fiction, Inspector Bucket.
14) Persuasion
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Having once given up the man she loved because of family objections, Anne Elliot must come to terms with her feelings when years later they meet again.
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Chronicles of Barsetshire volume 2
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The beloved ecclesiastical satire and enduring political novel, by one of the finest English authors of the nineteenth century. Part social commentary, part high comedy, the second installment in the Chronicles of Barsetshire is one of Anthony Trollope's most beloved novels, and cemented the author's reputation as the preeminent chronicler of Victorian England. When the well-regarded bishop of Barchester Cathedral unexpectedly passes away, the Evangelical...
16) Emma
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Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her inept matchmaking creates problems for herself and others.
17) Tom Jones
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Tom Jones (1749) is rightly regarded as Fielding's greatest work, and one of the first and most influential of English novels. At the center of one of the most ingenious plots in English fiction stands a hero whose actions were, in 1749, as shocking as they are funny today.
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Relates the experiences of Bathsheba Everdene as she is courted and married to three different men. Bathsheba Everdene and the three men who love her move through a beautifully realized late nineteenth-century agrarian landscape, still almost untouched by the industrial revolution, and the encroachment of modern life. Takes place in Wessex in the 1840s.
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Anne Bronte's second novel is a passionate and courageous challenge to the conventions supposedly upheld by Victorian society and reflected in circulating-library fiction. The heroine, Helen Huntingdon, after a short period of initial happiness, leaves her dissolute husband, and must earn her own living to rescue her son from his influence. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is compelling in its imaginative power, the realism and range of its dialogue, and...
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