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Anna Karenina (1935)
(1935) [PG]

Count Leo Tolstoy's ill-fated heroine Anna Karenina, who suffers the pains of doomed love. Set in the reign of Czar Nicholas 1st of Russia.  More

Great Expectations (2 tape set)
(1981) [G]

First televised in 1981, this excellent adaptation of Dickens' famous tale stunningly captivates the power of the original novel.  More

Emma (1972)
(1972) [G]

This BBC production, set in the small town of Highbury, depicts the often hilarious attempts of Miss Emma Woodhouse to make proper marital matches for all of her friends. Though often mistaken in her judgement, she is counselled and criticised by her neighbor and brother-in-law, the wise Mr....  More

The Mayor Of Casterbridge (2 tape set)
(1991) [G]

Filmed entirely in Hardy's Essex, with Alan Bates as the hero whose past rises to destroy him, this powerful production opens with the wife-sale from which this tragic tale unfolds. The Mayor of Casterbridge is rich, respected and feared, until two strangers arrive - his wife and her daughter....  More

Mansfield Park (BBC) (2 Disc Set)
(1983) [G]

When Sir Thomas Bertram takes in the 9-year-old daughter of an impoverished relative, his wife has someone to bully. Never allowed to forget her good fortune, Fanny's good nature and fortitude finally win her a valued place in the household and the man of her dreams. Anna Massey heads the cast of...  More

Persuasion (1971) (2-Tape Set)
(1971) [G]

Jane Austen's last novel provides the plot for this earlier Granada miniseries. Set in pre-Victorian England, this movie tells the story of Anne Elliot, who now having lost her "bloom" is re-united with the dashing Captain Frederick Wentworth whose advances she had refused seven years earlier....  More

Jude The Obscure (2 tape set)
(1971) [PG]

Jude Frawley (Robert Powell) has a dream that has consumed most of his life. The dream of education. The distant spires of Christminster and university have beckoned the young stone mason since he was a boy.

However, having extricated himself from his disastrous marriage to a pig...  More

The Forsyte Saga (1967): Part 1 (2 tape set)
(1967) [PG]

VOLUME 1: As the story begins it is 1879, and talk in the opulent drawing rooms of London's upper middle class society revolves around the Forsytes. Winifred's marriage to the roguish Monty Dartie has the Forsyte aunts cooing, as do Jo's extra-marital exploits with his daughter's Austrian...  More

The Forsyte Saga (1967): Part 2 (2 tape set)
(1967) [PG]

VOLUME 3: While Queen Victoria prepares to celebrate her Golden Jubilee, the Forsytes' fortunes continue to fluctuate. Ann, the eldest of the family, dies, Jo's appearance at her funeral marks a great improvement in relations with her father. Soames commissions June's fiancee, Philip Bosinney...  More

The Forsyte Saga (1967): Part 3 (2 tape set)
(1967) [PG]

VOLUME 5: As the century approaches its end, so do the lives of the more senior Forsytes. Jo's wife, Helene, dies from a fall, before madness destroys her mind, and Jo himself begins to see more of Irene. Soames, meanwhile, desperate for an heir, wants a divorce from Irene, and his sister,...  More