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Basil Fawlty is an inept and manic English hotel owner and manager who isn't cut out for his job. He's intolerant, rude and paranoid. Chaos frequently breaks loose as Basil tries to run the hotel. He is constantly under verbal (and sometime physical) attack from his unhelpful wife Sybil, and hindered by the incompetent, but easy target, Manuel, the Spanish waiter. Fortunately he has an intelligent and attractive maid to help him out of the various...
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A month by the lake : At a lakeside resort, an older guest has her eye on a well-to-do bachelor.
My life so far : Young Fraser Pettigrew has always been an adventurous child. But with the arrival of his French aunt, Heloise, Fraser enters a truly eye-opening summer of discovery.
The Englishman who went up a hill but came down a mountain : A young man offends an entire town by declaring their mountain--a prized local landmark--to be a hill.
Sweet...
6) Another life
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Scandal leads to murder in this true story as a woman is falsely accused of killing her husband.
7) Another life
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Scandal leads to murder in this true story as a woman is falsely accused of killing her husband.
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Four classic comedies from one of the greatest playwrights in Western literature: The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, and A Woman of No Importance. Plus a masterful dramatization of Wilde's chilling novel, The Picture of Dorian Grey. Starring James Marsters, Jacqueline Bisset, Alfred Molina, Eric Stoltz, Roger Rees, and many more.
9) Belonging
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
After her husband leaves her for a younger woman, middle-aged Jess Copplestone is left to look after his elderly relatives and make a new life for herself.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Reginald Perrin has a completely respectable career at Sunshine Desserts, a happy marriage and two less than satisfactory children. But the pressures of the rat race are beginning to push Reggie over the edge. The mere mention of his mother-in-law conjures the image of a hippopotamus, the word 'earwig' keeps creeping into his conversations, and his thoughts are repeatedly interrupted by outrageous fantasies involving his secretary and Reggie has to...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Tess of the D'Urbervilles: When the beautiful and innocent Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting the manipulative Alec proves to be her downfall.
Mayor of Casterbridge: On a drunken impulse, Henchard sells his wife and daughter at a country fair. Years later, when he has become a respected and prosperous man, his wife and daughter seek him out...
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