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1) Poor things
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. Under Baxter's protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn, a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, Bella grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality...
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Language
English
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A Doll's House is a three-act play in prose by Henrik Ibsen. It premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month.
The play is significant for its critical attitude toward 19th-century marriage norms. It aroused great controversy at the time, as it concludes with the protagonist, Nora, leaving her husband and children because she wants to discover herself. Ibsen was inspired by the...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Travel to the upper reaches and lower depths of Paris in the Belle Epoque with Dilili, a graceful young girl with eagle-eyed smarts as she investigates the mysterious plot of the Master Men. Together with Orel, a delivery boy who ferries her around the sweeping photorealistic and jewel-toned landscape as only expert animator Michel Ocelot could conceive, Dilili will stop at nothing until justice is restored. Our super sleuths journey through a turn-of-the-century...
4) A Doll House
Author
Language
English
Description
Nora Helmer has everything a young housewife could want: beautiful children, an adoring husband, and a bright future. But when a carelessly buried secret rises from the past, Nora’s well-calibrated domestic ideal starts to crumble. Ibsen’s play is as fresh today as it was when it first stormed the stages of 19th-century Europe.
Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at the James Bridges Theater, UCLA in September, 2011.
Director: Rosalind...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Washington Irving-author, ambassador, politically connected Manhattanite and international icon-has somehow slipped from Americaʼ memory, and yet, his creations are still well known. Acclaimed historian Andrew Burstein returns Irving to the context of his native nineteenth century where he was an major celebrity-both a colorful comic genius and the first name in our national literature. Irving traveled through Europe and America, excavating tales...
Publisher
Espresso Media International
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The Mediterranean Sea, the place where three continents meet. A turbulent water frontier. An ever changing landscape. A territory where the clash of civilizations, cultures and interests have been shaping for centuries the course of history. This is the sea of great naval powers, corsairs and pirates, the sea of trade, diplomacy and religion. From the 15th until the 19th century, the Mediterranean was ruled by piracy. This series fully explores the...
Publisher
Fred Rullman, Inc
Pub. Date
1920.
Language
English
Description
Eugene Onegin (Op. 24) is a three-act lyric opera composed and partially written by Tchaikovsky. The libretto is based upon the novel in verse of the same name by Russian author Alexander Pushkin and retains much of the poetry of the original. The opera was first performed in Moscow in 1879, and it premiered in several countries around Europe in the late 19th century and in America in 1920 at New York's Metropolitan Opera House. In almost every performance,...
9) Daisy Miller
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
2003, c1974
Language
English
Description
" ... an expatriate American lives abroad in Europe with her daffy mother and bratty kid brother. Daisy is very liberated and very much ahead of her time [and] scandalizes the Victorian high society of 1878"--Container.
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Language
English
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"Delving deeply into archives and correspondence, Jens Andersen sheds new light on Hans Christian Andersen's writings - the 156 published fairy tales, as well as the novels, short stories, dramas, poetry, and non-fiction - and on the writer whose own life had many aspects of the fairytale. As did some of the memorable characters he created, Andersen grew up in miserable and impoverished circumstances and as an adult he took steps to keep what he called...
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