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(0)Alec McCowen
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English
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Description
Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challenge: The complete plays are too long and complex, while scene selections or simplified language are too limited. "The 30-Minute Shakespeare" is a new series of abridgements that tell the "story" of each play from start to finish while keeping the beauty of Shakespeare's language intact. Specific stage directions...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
He describes himself as "just a civil servant." But in the cloak-and-dagger world of the British security services, mild-mannered Mr. Palfrey is an invaluable player in the spy game. A master of counterespionage and a spy-catcher extraordinaire, he is smart, discreet, cunning and likes to do things his own way. His new boss quickly realizes the talents and the dangers of the deceptively charming, utterly ruthless Palfrey. Known simply as "the Coordinator"...
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Series
Language
English
Description
The bestselling author Jeffrey Archer once again astonishes, delights, and electrifies with this audio collection, Twelve Red Herrings.
Featuring bonus interviews with the author.
Archer, the internationally bestselling author of Honor Among Thieves and Kane & Abel, serves up this inventive collection of a dozen short stories — with a twist. Cleverly styled, with richly drawn characters and ingeniously
4) Henry V: DVD
Pub. Date
1989-2000.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Historical play about the English king who defeated the French at Agincourt.
Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Twins Sebastian and Viola are separated after a shipwreck and believe each other dead. Viola disguises herself as a page boy, Cesario, to work for Duke Orsino and falls in love with him, but he loves Olivia, who falls in love with Cesario. Seeing Sebastian one day, she mistakes him for Cesario and marries him. The confusion is cleared up when Viola and Sebastian meet again, and the Duke marries Viola. The subplot concerns the efforts of Sir Toby and...
Series
Criterion collection volume 913
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"No filmmaker captures the grandeur and energy of New York like Martin Scorsese. With this sumptuous romance, he meticulously adapted the work of another great New York artist, Edith Wharton, bringing to life her tragic novel set in the cloistered world of Gilded Age Manhattan. The Age of Innocence tells the story of Newland Archer(Daniel Day-Lewis), whoses engagement to an innocent socialite (Winona Ryder) binds him to the codes and rituals of his...
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Remastered edition.
Language
English
Description
'They're killing him bit by bit!' Flamboyant, flame-haired 70-plus Augusta Bertram has opened a package containing a finger that recently belonged to her years-ago lover. The victim's kidnappers continue mailing expendable body parts, and Augusta enlists the aid of her stuffy nephew in a mad to-the-rescue adventure across Europe in pursuit of $100,000 in ransom money. The scramble to save a life just might also liberate the nephew's life-starved soul....
9) Frenzy
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
An innocent man accused of a series of murders is on a desperate quest to find the real criminal and clear his name.
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A collection of four of Oscar Wilde's masterpieces, and a 1995 documentary about his life, his relationship with Alfred Douglas and the trials that destroyed his career. Includes reflections by Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland, and Douglas' grandniece Alice Douglas.
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Blu-ray version.
Language
English
Description
Agent Number 2, Maximilian Largo is part of the SPECTRE organization. He has managed to steal two American cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads. Agent Number 1, Blofeld, has threatened to explode them in areas with large populations, if a huge ransom demand from the NATO countries is not met. The British reactivate their '00' section and sends Bond off to the Bahamas to recover them. A millionaire named Max Largo has been noticed by Bond, who...
12) Frenzy
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
In modern-day London, a sex criminal known as the Necktie Murderer has the police on alert; and in typical Hitchcock fashion, their trail is leading to an innocent man who must now elude the law and prove his innocence by finding the real murderer.
Series
James Bond film volume 15
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
Widescreen format.
Language
English
Description
After two atomic warheads are hijacked by SPECTRE, the British reactivate their secret agents, sending James Bond on a misson to recapture the warheads and the people responsible.
16) King Lear
Author
Language
English
Description
Presents the complete text to William Shakespeare's play "King Lear" with an easy-to-understand translation on facing pages, helping students better understand the work and its meaning.
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