Emily Brontë
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
Français
Description
Based on Emily Bronte's classic novel Wuthering Heights, this sensual film tells the story of the torid affair between two childhood sweethearts - Catherine, a headstrong young woman, and Roc, a fiery young gypsy. The groundbreaking French director Jacques Rivette sets one of literature's greatest love stories in the French countryside of the 1930's.
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When the dark brooding orphan boy Heathcliff enters the Earnshaw household at Wuthering Heights, he is at first shunned by his new stepsiblings, Catherine and Hindley. Catherine eventually falls in love with Heathcliff, but Hindley's rivalry with Heathcliff only deepens, and when Hindley inherits the estate, he treats Heathcliff as little more than a servant. When Catherine later marries a neighboring landowner who can offer her social advancement,...
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
After harsh early years, Pip, an orphan growing up in Victorian England, is given the means to become a gentleman by an unknown benefactor and learns that outward appearances can be deceiving; a passionate young woman takes a job as governess at Thornfield, an old house with a moody master and a dark secret; Cathy and Heathcliff grow up together and fall in love, but when Cathy becomes promised to another man, Heathcliff seeks revenge; enamored with...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Sabrina: David and Linus are brothers running the family corporation. When the chauffeur's daughter comes back from Paris she finds she has the attention of David, whom she has always liked, but starts to fall in love with Linus. Includes bonus features.
The English patient: Based on the novel by Michael Ondaatje, a complicated WWII saga told in flashback sequences. A mysterious stranger is cared for by British allies unaware of his dangerous past....
54) Women who wrote
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Celebrate women and stories with these heartwarming selections from some of literature's most beloved writers. Some wrote defiantly, some wrote desperately and others wrote trapped within the confines of status and wealth. we know many of there names--Austen and Alcott, Bronte and Browning, Wheatley and Woolf-They are here ready to introduce themselves.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Pride & prejudice: Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hartfordshire with his overbearing wife and 5 daughters. There is the beautiful Jane, the clever Elizabeth, the bookish Mary, the immature Kitty and the wild Lydia. Unfortunately, if Mr. Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met. The family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages. Life is uneventful...