Alan Dobie

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1) Hard times

Publisher

Acorn Media

Pub. Date

2007

Edition

Full screen.

Physical Desc

2 videodiscs (ca. 203 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Language

English

Description

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From the company that brought Brideshead Revisited and The Jewel in the Crown, comes an adaptation that faithfully realizes Dickens' scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society. Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling....

2) Sergeant Cribb: The complete series

Series

Best of British

Publisher

ITV Studios Home Entertainment

Pub. Date

[2011]

Edition

Full screen.

Physical Desc

7 videodiscs (ca. 743 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Language

English

Description

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Sergeant Cribb solves mysterious crimes against the backdrop of Victorian England.

3) Hard times

Publisher

Acorn Media

Pub. Date

2007.

Physical Desc

2 videodiscs (203 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Language

English

Formats

DVD, DVD - Split-Disc Set

Description

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4) War & peace

Publisher

Koch Vision

Pub. Date

2007

Edition

Full screen.

Physical Desc

5 videodiscs (890 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (43 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)

Language

English

Description

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Leo Tolstoy's timeless masterpiece of love and loss is universally recognized as one of the greatest novels ever written. Focusing on the consequences faced by three Russian families during the Napoleanic Wars, this classic work is retold in twenty parts in this epic BBC production.