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One double-sided disc contains episodes 1-3 on side A (200 min.) and episodes 4-6 on side B (220 min.). Based on George Elliot's novel, Middlemarch is set in early nineteenth century England and charts the impact of the ...
Adam Bede, an honest, hard-working carpenter, has his heart set on marrying his sweetheart, pretty dairymaid Hetty Sorrel. Hetty wants nothing to do with her boring life on the farm and she allows herself to be seduced b...
Nicholas and his sister, Kate, turn to their wealthy, cold-hearted uncle Ralph Nickleby when their father's death leaves them destitute. Nicholas eagerly takes on a teaching job at a boys' boarding school, but flees aft...
Daniel Deronda is sensitive and charming, the illegitimate son of an aristocrat, haunted by the secrets that shroud his birth. Beautiful, vivacious Gwendolen Harleth is a gambler and short on cash. When they meet at the ...
The most autobiographical of Dickens' work, DAVID COPPERFIELD often echoes the writer's own life. It tells a moving story of David's journey from birth to maturity, a journey which inextricably links his life with some ...
When a mysterious benefactor comes along, Pip begins the transformation from a blacksmith's son to society gentleman of great expectations.
Sir Charles of Baskerville lies dead on the moors of his family estate. The look of abject fear on his face and the presence of animal footprints around his corpse suggest the impossible; that the ghost of a fearsome hou...
SILAS MARNER is the story of a young linen-weaver whose dreams are destroyed when he is falsely accused of a crime. Isolating himself, he becomes a selfish and despondent miser. Despair turns to hope when he adopts an ...
The film begins with a live-action sequence set in Boston in 1857, the site of a live reading by renowned novelist Dickens (Simon Callow). As he begins his 'story of ghosts' a woman in the audience screams because she ha...
The tragic tale of Maggie Tulliver, the miller's daughter, who defies her embittered brother in standing by the man she loves - shocking the stifling society in which she lives - in an attempt to pursue her blighted drea...
It's a dazzling ascent up the social ladder as vivacious Becky Sharp schemes and seduces her way to the top -- until love and romance threaten to get in the way! Join her daring adventures that prove all is fair in love...
In the concrete canyons of New York City, Oliver, an adorable orphaned kitten, is befriended by Dodger, a carefree mutt with a certain street savoir faire. The mischievious little cat is welcomed by Dodger's pack of pic...
With dizzying cinematic tricks and astonishing performances, Francis Coppola's 1992 version of the oft-filmed Dracula story is one of the most exuberant, extravagant films of the 1990s. Gary Oldman and Winona Ryder, as t...
The most autobiographical of Dickens' work, DAVID COPPERFIELD often echoes the writer's own life. It tells a moving story of David's journey from birth to maturity, a journey which inextricably links his life with some ...
Robert Louis Stevenson's timeless tale of buccaneers and buried gold, which sets the stage for the heroics of young Jim Hawkins and the skullduggery of that wily, one-legged pirate of all pirates, Long John Silver.
Small, plain and poor, Jane Eyre comes to Thornfield Hall as governess to the young ward of Edward Rochester. Denied love all her life, Jane can't help but be attracted to the intelligent, vibrant, energetic Mr. Rocheste...
Come share the joy as cold-hearted Ebenezer Scrooge, the man who "bah-humbugged" his way through Christmas, discovers the true holiday spirit after he's visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.