Claire Bloom
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Peter's mischievous cousin, Benjamin Bunny, persuades him to go back to Mr. McGregor's garden to retrieve the clothes he lost there. To celebrate Peter's birthday, Frederick Warne is publishing new editions of all 23 of Potter's original tales, which take the very first printings of Potter's works as their guide. The aim of these editions is to be as close as possible to Beatrix Potter's intentions while benefiting from modern printing and design...
6) Charly
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A retarded adult male struggling to survive in the world consents to an experiment to raise his intelligence.
Series
Criterion collection volume 452
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A veteran spy about to retire undertakes one last assignment in which he pretends to defect and provides the enemy with sufficient evidence to label their leader a double agent.
12) Hamlet
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video Publishing [distributor]
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Presents a dramatization of William Shakespeare's play in which a Danish prince avenges the murder of his father, the king, by killing his uncle Claudius who murdered the king, usurped the throne, and married Hamlet's mother, Gertrude. Hamlet, considered the most complex of all Shakespeare's characters, examines the fundamental issues of justice, guilt and death.
13) Richard III
Series
Criterion collection volume 213
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to become the King of England through deceit and murder.
14) A doll's house
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A wife forges a loan to protect her husband; disturbed by his response, she begins to build her own life.
15) King John
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video Publishing
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A performance of Shakespeare's play about the weak and wicked King John.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1968 the world experienced a brand new kind of terror with the debut of George A. Romero's landmark movie Night of the Living Dead. The newly dead rose to attack the living. Not as vampires or werewolves. This was something new...and terrifying. Since then, zombies have invaded every aspect of popular culture. But it all started on that dreadful night in a remote farmhouse... Nights of the Living Dead returns to that night, to the outbreak, to...
17) The haunting
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A parapsychologist and two mediums spend a weekend in a haunted mansion.
18) Cymbeline
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video Publishing
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Tragicomedy involving Imogen, the daughter of Britain's King Cymbeline, whose evil stepmother wishes to have Imogen's husband, Posthumus, banished so that Imogen will be free to marry the queen's thick-witted son, Cloten. Trickery and deceit abound as Imogen, disguised as a boy in order to clear her name, is forced to flee the castle.
19) The outrage
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[c2009]
Language
English
Description
A notorious bandit confesses to rape and murder. But when witnesses offer different versions of the crime, the truth becomes more and more elusive.
20) Anna Karenina
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Anna Karenina is the young wife of Alexis Karenin, a Russian diplomat. She is on a mission of mercy to help her brother patch things up with his wife after an injudicious affair. While helping her brother, Anna meets the dashing officer, Count Alexis Vronsky. Anna is soon swept off her feet by Vronsky and begins an affair of her own. When Karenin finds out, he offers to forgive Anna is she will leave Vronsky. She refuses. It is a decision that will...