Summary: When the privileged Margaret Hale's father uproots the family to take work in the northern mill town of Milton, she is shocked by the dirt and gruffness of the people. But she reserves her highest contempt for the charismatic mill-owner John Thornton.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV NORSummary: The lives of sisters Sharon and Tracey are never the same after their husbands are convicted of armed robbery and sent to prison. Forced to live together, the sisters become good, if begrudging, friends with their man-eating neighbor Dorien Green. Together with their families, Sharon and Tracey face the dramas, tragedies, stresses, and strains of keeping up with the world, without their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BIRSummary: At the start of World War II, 14-year-old Carrie and her younger brother Nick are separated from their mother and evacuated from war-torn London to a rural village in Wales, where they now live with a puritanical shopkeeper and his spinster sister.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CARSummary: The most autobiographical of Dickens' works, 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 of Dickens' most colorful and extraordinary families.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2002