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21) The Train
Pub. Date
℗1999, ©1964.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
WWII thriller about a French railway inspector whose low-key resistance efforts become vitally urgent when the Nazis try to steal a trainload of France's most treasured paintings, and it's up to him to stop the train.
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Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
A Russian museum curator acquires a painting of a public building that includes a modification completed in 1952. The artist: Adolf Hitler. A prominent historian is mysteriously killed while in the final stages of research for his latest book- a biography of the fü hrer. An American architect preparing a book on Third Reich architecture discovers plans for a seventh bunker. All are pieces of an emerging puzzle whose solution...
24) The train
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
In August 1944 the Allied army is closing in on Paris. German commander and art fanatic Colonel Von Waldheim steals a vast collection of rare French paintings and loads them onto a train bound for Berlin. When a beloved French patriot is murdered while trying to sabotage Von Waldheim's scheme, Labiche, a stalwart member of the Resistance, vows to stop the train at any cost.
25) The Aeneid
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English
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"For two thousand years, the epic tale of Aeneas' dramatic flight from Troy, his doomed love affair with Dido, his descent into the underworld, and the bloody story behind the establishment of Rome has electrified audiences around the world. In Vergil's telling, Aeneas' heroic journey not only gave Romans and Italians a thrilling origin story, it established many of the fundamental themes of Western life and literature--the role of duty and self-sacrifice,...
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Series
World of Narnia volume drama 3
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A boy and a talking horse share an adventurous and dangerous journey to Narnia to warn of invading barbarians.
27) King Lear
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Language
English
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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.
28) Oliver Twist
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Language
English
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After orphan Oliver Twist asks for more food, he has to flee the workhouse and ends up on the streets of London. There he meets the Artful Dodger, who leads him to Fagin and his gang of pickpockets. When a thieving mission goes wrong, Oliver narrowly avoids prison and finds himself in the care of kind Mr. Brownlow. But Fagin and the brutal Bill Sikes go in search of the young orphan, determined to drag him back.
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Three classic radio productions from the BBC archives starring Hannah Gordon, Tim Pigott-Smith, Paul Scofield and a host of celebrated acting talent.
These three legendary plays, performed by some of the best-known theatrical actors of the 20th Century, are the perfect way to commemorate England's greatest dramatist.
The Winter's Tale
One man's consuming jealousy threatens to destroy both himself and those around him, but his actions
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