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-- Charles Dickens Dombey and Son.[2006]., General, BBC VIdeo ; Distributed by Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Dombey Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Set amid the teeming bustle of Victorian England, Dombey and Son is Dickens's story of a powerful man whose coldhearted neglect of his family causes his professional and personal downfall.
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2005., General, Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Hard Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-mad, self-important banker Josiah Bounderby, though she does not love him. But soon finds herself succumbing to the attentions of the lothario James Harthouse. All the while, Mrs. Sparsit, a former aristocrat who now works for Bounderby, obsessively watches as the drama unfolds, longing for Louisa's downfall.
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-- Charles Dickens The Pickwick papers.2006., General, BBC VIdeo ; Distributed by Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Pickwick Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The ramblings, adventures and travels of the members of the Pickwick Club as they wander about the countryside, getting into trouble wherever possible.