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1) Emma
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Emma Woodhouse is a young woman who, having engineered the marriage of her companion, turns her attention toward making a match for the local vicar and her new protegée, Harriet Smith. Her one voice of reason and restraint is Mr. Knightley, who has known her since she was a child and who watches her behaviour with wry amusement and sometimes with real anger. Emma presides over the small provincial world of Highbury with enthusiasm, but she will find...
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English
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If you liked Jane Eyre, Bridgerton, or Downton Abbey, you'll love this best-selling novel of romance and social satire set in Regency era Britain.
Two handsome, single, and wealthy gentleman arrive in town and capture the attention of all the young ladies. A combination of pride and prejudice results in ironic twists and turns in this tale of young English women and their quest for love and security. Delve into the life of the fiercely independent...
5) Emma
Publisher
British Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Beautiful, clever, and rich Emma Woodhouse is convinced she is good at matchmaking after her older sister and her governess both marry suitable husbands. BBC Production.
6) Persuasion
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1999, c1995
Language
English
Description
Anne Elliot, persuaded by family and friends that Frederick Wentworth is not worthy of her regard, questions her decision to send him away until he returns seven years later.
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Follows the relationship of two contrasting communities: Lark Rise, a small hamlet gently holding onto the past, and Candleford, a neighboring market town bustling into the future. When young Laura Timmins leaves Lark Rise for a job at the Candleford post office, she discovers an eye-opening, exciting new world. In the face of scandals and feuds, she must leave her childhood behind.
8) Emma
Series
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
1999, c1996
Language
English
Description
A young woman insists on orchestrating the love lives of her acquaintances, although her own could use some attention.
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Series
Language
English
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Set in early 1900s Italy and England, A Room with a View offers a humorous critique of Edwardian-era society. The novel begins in Florence, Italy, where Miss Lucy Honeychurch, who is chaperoned by her spinster cousin Miss Charlotte Bartlett, arrive at the Pensione Bertolini to find that instead of rooms with a view of the Arno, as promised, theirs face a drab courtyard. Another guest spontaneously offers to swap the rooms that he and his son have...
10) Tess
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A timeless adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic romance. Tess Darbeyville, a beautiful young peasant, seeks her fortune with the wealthy D'Urbervilles, whom her family believes to be distant relatives.
11) Emma
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse is a restless queen bee without rivals in her sleepy little town. In this glittering satire of social class and the pain of growing up, Emma must adventure through misguided matches and romantic missteps to find the love that has been there all along.
12) Middlemarch
Series
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
2005, c1994
Language
English
Description
Follows the love and financial problems of Dorothea Brooke, a crusader, who is prevented from being with the man she loves, and of the idealistic Dr. Lydgate, who succumbs to materialism.
13) Mansfield Park
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Series
Language
English
Description
A shy young woman discovers her true power in this poignant love story from one of the world's most cherished authors The eldest of nine children born to a naval lieutenant with a meager pension, Fanny Price is sent to live with wealthy relatives at Mansfield Park. Only ten years old, she is nervous around her rich cousins and uncomfortable in their grand house. And as the years pass, Fanny comes to believe that she will never truly feel at home....
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English
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Nervous flyer Emma is sitting on a turbulent plane. She really thinks that this could be her last moment. So she starts telling the man sitting next to her all her innermost secrets. How she scans the backs of intellectual books and pretends she's read them. How she's not sure if she has a G-Spot. How she feels like a fraud at work. How she once threw a troublesome client file in the bin. If ever there was a bare soul, it's hers. She survives the...
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Language
English
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Emily Brontë (1818-1848) was a fiercely talented and enigmatic English novelist, celebrated for her timeless masterpiece "Wuthering Heights." Born in the wild and windswept Yorkshire moors, she was the reclusive sister of Charlotte and Anne Brontë, yet her literary legacy stands in a league of its own.
Despite her short life, Emily Brontë's genius shone brightly through her hauntingly beautiful prose and her exploration of intense emotions and...
16) The Adventuress
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Series
Language
English
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The downstairs staff at a Regency London townhouse prepares for another season in the delightful series by the New York Times–bestselling author. The house at 67 Clarges Street in Mayfair has a new pair of renters-pretty, young Emily Goodenough and the silent, mysterious man she calls her uncle. Emily is in London to find a husband-though her awkwardness in society could prove to be an obstacle. The servants led by Rainbird the butler, suspect there...
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English
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Wives and Daughters, by Elizabeth Gaskell, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
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