Summary: The story of the five Bennet sisters living in early 19th century England. Their mother is scheming to make prestigious marriages for them. Focuses on Elizabeth Bennet, who mistakenly finds the rich Mr. Darcy an oaf, even as he sets all the other fair maidens' hearts aflutter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD Classic PrideCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PRISummary: A story about class divisions in Edwardian England, and the tragic series of events that occurs when two impulsive middle-class sisters become involved with a working class couple and a wealthy family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve when she falls in love with the charming but unsuitable John Willoughby, ignoring her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behavior leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Elinor, sensitive to social convention, struggles to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Will the sisters learn that sense must mix...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When Arthur Clennam returns to London after several years abroad, he wants to learn more about his mother's new seamstress, young Amy Dorrit. His search brings him to the Marshalsea Debtors Prison, where he learns the truth about struggle and hardship in 1820s England.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2009
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LITSummary: An ex-con and a call girl are thrown together when he becomes her chauffeur. Initially he detests her but winds up under her spell.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MONSummary: Thomas & Sarah reunites fans with the wily chauffeur and the sassy cockney parlor maid from Upstairs, Downstairs. In these thirteen episodes, the scheming pair embarks on adventures of smuggling, swindling, matchmaking, and magic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: ITV Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The lives of both the family and the servants in the London townhouse at 165 Eaton Place are followed. Upstairs lives Richard Bellamy, the head of the household, and also a member of Parliament. His wife is a member of the titled aristocracy. Downstairs is Hudson, the Scottish butler who directs and guides the other servants concerning their tasks and proper places.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2011
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV UPSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Up 1Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD UPSHepburn, Audrey
Summary: A Covent Garden flower girl becomes a lady, entering elite London society under the tutelage of an arrogant professor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS Warner 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Classic MyCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS MYCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MYSummary: "In the years between 1912 and 1914, King Edward VII is dead and war looms"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 1974
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV UPSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Up 3Summary: One of the most loved television series of all time is brought back to life with a fresh cast and sumptuous production values. It's 1936, and six years since parlor maid Rose left 165 Eaton Place, when fate brings her back as housekeeper to its new owners: Sir Hallam, his wife Lady Agnes, and Maud, Lady Holland, his mother. Rose soon finds she has her work cut out as she recruits a new...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corporation 2011
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV UPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD UPS NOT RATEDSummary: "The fifth and final series portrays the post-war period of 1919 to 1930"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV UPSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Up 5Summary: Season two of the landmark series finds Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Kirbridge returning from their honeymoon to set up their new household in nearby Greenwich, Sarah tells James she's having his baby and the Bellamys make provisions to avoid a major scandal, Mrs. Bridges is the envy of every cook in Mayfair and Belgravia when His Majesty, King Edward VII dines at Eaton Place, and much more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV UPSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Up 2Summary: "Series four takes place during the Great War, from 1914-18, and no one is unaffected"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV UPSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Up 4Summary: Sense and sensibility: Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve when she falls in love with the charming but unsuitable John Willoughby, ignoring her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behavior leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Elinor, sensitive to social convention, struggles to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Will the sisters learn...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SENSummary: The show follows Margaret and Helen Schlegel, two intelligent, idealistic sisters living together in Edwardian London with their hypochondriac brother, Tibby. Their loving but interfering Aunt Juley tries to keep the siblings in line after the death of their parents, but a series of events push the sisters to lead unorthodox lives full of romance, tragedy, and drama.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2020
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HOWSummary: Set in an early nineteenth-century, gossip-driven English town, seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson faces a world of change when her long-widowed physician father remarries.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WIVSummary: Social climber Alice tries to push her clodhopper family to the background and assumes airs to win the love of an amiable, wealthy young man.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE ALISummary: Set in England in the years leading up to the First World War, Downton Abbey tells the story of a complicated community. The house has been home to the Crawley family for many generations, but it is also where their servants live, and plan, and dream, and they are as fiercely jealous of their rank as anyone. Some of them are loyal to the family and committed to Downton as a way of life, others...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DOWSummary: A modern day version of the Dickens' classic finds an aspiring artist (Hawke) reunited with his love (Paltrow). When she agrees to model for him, his dearest hopes may be realized, along with his darkest fears.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: Anne Elliot fell deeply in love with handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth at the age of nineteen. But with neither fortune nor rank to recommend him, Anne was persuaded to break off her engagement. Eight years later, Anne has lived to regret her decision. She never stopped loving Wentworth, and when he returns from sea with rank and fortune, she can only watch as every eligible...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PERSach, Laurence
Summary: A graphic novel adaptation of Austen's tale of Lizzy Bennet and Mr. Darcy, both of whom learn to see past their first impressions of the other. Includes biographical and historical notes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Campfire, an imprint of Kalyani Navyug Media Pvt. Ltd. 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC SACSummary: When their dad dies on his 55th birthday, Beverley Hills sisters Mary and Nora find themselves destitute, forced by a grasping sister-in-law to move in with their aunt in East L.A. Younger sister Mary is mortified, without Spanish, and scared of the vatos. Her sister convinces her to finish college, where she promptly decides that one of her T.A.s will be her ticket back to Rodeo Drive. Elder...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: OddLot Films 2011