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James McParlan is an operative working for the Pinkerton Detective Agency, who is hired by a major coal company to infiltrate and expose an underground terrorist organization, the "Molly Maguires". The Mollies operate within the improverished mining communities of Pennsylvania and are mostly Irish emigrants. McParlan is selected to infiltrate the organization to pose as a new member, but it quickly becomes apparent that the working conditions are...
2) The citadel
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"Typhoid. Tuberculosis. Cave-ins. Young Dr. Andrew Manson fights the ills that beset the overworked and forgotten in poor Welsh mining towns. He is a dedicated healer until the burdens of his struggle shatter his idealism. To the dismay of his wife, he opens a London practice tending to the pampered rich. Then tragedy forces him to face what he's become. And what he's lost"--Container.
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"Miss Moffat [is] the spinster teacher fighting to educate the poor children of a Welsh mining village. The story, based on Emlyn Williams' autobiographical play, focuses on the relationship between Miss Moffat and her gifted young prodigy from the mines, Morgan Evans. She molds him into a legitimate candidate for an Oxford scholarship in the remarkably short span of two years. Despite the disaster of Morgan's seduction by trouble-making Bessie, the...
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