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Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon and David Niven star in this internationally acclaimed masterpiece based on Emily Bronte's classic story of passion, hatred and revenge. Olivier and Oberon are brilliant as Heathcliff and Cathy, whose tortured love affair ends when Cathy marries the wealthy Edgar. Heathcliff's savage retaliation upon the woman he loves explodes in a stunning climax. Directed by William Wyler and featuring Academy Award-winning cinematography,...
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Overview: Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights has been called the most beautiful, most profoundly violent love story of all time. At its center are Catherine and Heathcliff, and the self-contained world of Wuthering Heights, Thrushcross Grange, and the wild Yorkshire moors that the characters inhabit. "I am Heathcliff, " Catherine declares. In her introduction Janet Gezari examines Catherine's assertion and in her notes maps it to questions that flicker...
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Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë grew up on the moors of England. The sisters filled the harsh and open landscape with imaginary people and stories. The success of their books empowered other women and inspired a new wave of female-authored literature. Though their lives were often challenging, the sisters encouraged each other to keep working hard for what they wanted. Their books remain some of the most influential and memorable works of their...
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A man called Otto: Based on the comical and moving New York Times bestseller, it tells the story of Otto Anderson, a grumpy widower whose only joy comes from criticizing and judging his exasperated neighbors. When a lively young family moves in next door, he meets his match in quick-witted and very pregnant Marisol, leading to an unexpected friendship that will turn his world upside down.
Women talking: The women of an insular, ultraconservative...
68) Fame
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When legendary film director Dorian Rasmirez gambles his fortune on an opulent remake of Wuthering Heights, he knows it's his last chance to salvage his career. He'll do anything to get a hit-- even cast Hollywood bad girl Sabrina Leon in the lead role. But the young starlet is as famous for her battles with drugs and alcohol as she is for her intoxicating beauty. When leading man Viorel Hudson arrives, their chemistry is undeniable. But as hot as...
71) The red monarch
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The Bronte sisters' first poetry collection has just been published, potentially marking an end to their careers as amateur detectors, when Anne receives a letter from her friend Lydia Robinson. Lydia has eloped with a young actor, Harry Roxby, and following her disinheritance, the couple been living in poverty in London. Harry has become embroiled with a criminal gang and is in terrible danger after allegedly losing something very valuable that he...
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The greatest dinosaur writers wrote a treasury of prehistoric literature that paved the way for such modern classics as Romeo & Juliet, Wuthering Heights, The raven, The adventures of Tom Sawyer, A tale of two cities, and Pride and prejudice. Read biographical information about William Shakespeare, Emily Bronte, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, and Jane Austen.
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