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1) Little Women
Series
Pub. Date
[1970]
Language
English
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This dramatization of Louisa May Alcott's novel is about the lives of the four March sisters. With their father fighting in the American Civil War, Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth are at home with Aunt March and their mother, a very outspoken woman for her time. The story reveals how the sisters learn to navigate love, loss, and the trials of growing up. In episode two, Mr. Laurence offers his piano to Beth. Amy becomes jealous of Jo's time with Laurie and...
2) Little women
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
Writer-director Greta Gerwig has crafted a film that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott and unfolds as the author2s alter ego, Jo March reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig2s take, the beloved story of the March sisters, four young women each determined to live life on her own terms, is both timeless and timely.
3) Little women
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Classic story by Louisa May Alcott about the March family of four daughters, a strong mother and a father away during the Civil War.
4) Little women
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A modern retelling of Louisa May Alcott's novel. The story details the passage from childhood to womanhood of Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy who are all sisters. Despite hard times, they cling to optimism. As they mature they face blossoming ambitions and relationships, as well as tragedy, while maintaining their unbreakable bond as sisters.
5) Little Women
Pub. Date
[2013], c1949
Language
English
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Louisa May Alcott's Little Women is one of the great young-adult novels of the 19th century. It describes the coming-of-age of the four March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, whose loving mother cares for them while their father serves in the Civil War. Jo, who falls in love and becomes a writer, is clearly an analogue for Alcott herself. This 1949 film adaptation stars Elizabeth Taylor as Amy, Janet Leigh as Meg, June Allyson as Jo, and Mary Astor...
6) Little women
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Series
Language
English
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The classic story of the March family whose four daughters are growing up in New England in the mid-1800s. Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth use their courage, humor and ingenuity to endure poverty and the absence of their father during the Civil War.
7) Little women
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Dramatisation of Louisa May Alcott's novel about the lives of the four March sisters during the American Civil War as they learn to navigate love, loss and the trials of growing up.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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Louisa May Alcott was no little woman, and her life was no children's book. Louisa May Alcott's story is as full of incident, surprise, and heroism as any plot she invented. This first film biography of the beloved author of Little Women stars Elizabeth Marvel (House of Cards) in a detailed portrait that replaces the image of a New England spinster with a living, breathing, modern woman.
9) Modern Times
Series
Language
English
Description
Forget dolls and skipping. Today's generation of pre-teen girls want all the latest teenage fads. They crave fashionable clothes and make-up and obsess over image-driven superstars such as Britney Spears, S Club7 and Steps - huge icons for the children of today. Tweenagers is a delightful portrayal that follows the daily lives of several very different young girls, highlighting the changing face of contemporary childhood. Predominantly warm and sympathetic...
10) Spelling Level 2
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
How to remember the spelling of the words 'Could, Should & Would'
11) Marmee: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In 1861, Margaret March, with her husband serving as an army chaplain, finds the comfort and security of her four daughters resting on her shoulders alone as she faces financial hardships, secrets, and tragedy, in this revealing retelling of Little Women from the perspective of the beloved matriarch known as Marmee.
12) Mujercitas
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
A beautiful illustrated edition of Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott, a universal story, appreciated by generations of girls for over one hundred and fifty years. Mr. March has gone off to war, and his four daughters must stay home with their mother, their aunt, and their friends, amid the bustle of the New England bourgeois life. Meg, Beth, Amy and Jo, the four March sisters, have very different interests, but together they live and endure the...
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A Separation is the story of a divorce in our times in Tehran. A young woman wants to emigrate with her daughter, but her husband does not share this desire, as he wants to stay with his father, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. At the same time, the husband is accused of having pushed his father’s caregiver down the stairs. Both cases are taken to court—a well-constructed double-intrigue and a breathless suspense drama in a harrowing...
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The stories in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book are set deep in the Indian jungle, in a dangerous world without parents - and with few rules. First published as a collection in 1894, the book's themes of belonging and identity are still relevant today.
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Language
English
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An Egyptian crocodile who catches the fancy of the esteemed Emperor Napoleon becomes an instant celebrity in a fancy fountain in Paris. But when someone in the kitchen starts singing the praises of crocodile pie, the resourceful and very hungry reptile escapes by sewer. Narrated by Tim Curry. AudioFile: "Tim Curry's narration is exemplary - a glorious example of the perfect melding of all parts of an audio recording. The musical background is...
19) Brilliant Ideas
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Language
English
Description
A Turner Prize winning sculptor, Tony Cragg has a huge international reputation and has represented Britain at the Venice Biennale. He has lived and worked in Germany for 40 years. His early works used found objects and discarded materials, and he rose to fame with "Britain Seen from the North," an assemblage of scraps depicting the outline of the island of Great Britain oriented to the left. The piece is often interpreted as a commentary of the social...
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In part 2 of this film, learn about the Rococo era and its devotion to the pursuit of pleasure. During this era, art was freed of its religious and societal obligations and encouraged to pursue beauty alone. Learn about its influence in architecture, fashion, furniture, porcelain, sculpture and painting. Look at the works of Gainsborough, Boucher, Watteau, and gain in-depth knowledge of the subtle and not-so-subtle messages they are communicating....
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