Peter Firth
1) Regeneration
Author
Series
Regeneration trilogy (Pat Barker) volume 1
Language
English
Description
“Calls to mind such early moderns as Hemingway and Fitzgerald...Some of the most powerful antiwar literature in modern English fiction.”—The Boston Globe
The first book of the Regeneration Trilogy—a Booker Prize nominee and one of Entertainment Weekly’s 100 All-Time Greatest Novels.
In 1917 Siegfried Sasson, noted poet and decorated war hero, publicly refused to continue...
The first book of the Regeneration Trilogy—a Booker Prize nominee and one of Entertainment Weekly’s 100 All-Time Greatest Novels.
In 1917 Siegfried Sasson, noted poet and decorated war hero, publicly refused to continue...
2) Birdsong
Author
Series
French trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
A tale of love and war early this century. The protagonists are Stephen Wraysford, a British businessman, and Isabelle Azaire, a married Frenchwoman. They meet in 1910, she elopes with him, gives birth to his child, then remorse sends her back to her husband. But World War I will bring them together when he returns to France as an officer in the British army.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this story by a master novelist introduces us to Maurice Hall when he is fourteen. We follow him through public school and Cambridge, and into his father's firm. In a highly structured society, Maurice is a conventional young man in almost every way--except that his is gay. Written during 1913 and 1914, immediately after Howards End, and not published until 1971, Maurice was ahead...
Author
Series
Regeneration trilogy (Pat Barker) volume 3
Language
English
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Description
A World War I novel on civilized and uncivilized warfare. The protagonist is a British psychologist, treating soldiers for shell shock. Before the war he lived in a British colony in the Far East, studying headhunters until the practice was banned by the British as uncivilized. Now, as he witnesses the carnage of civilized artillery and machine guns he asks himself why is this not banned? By the author of The Eye in the Door.
Author
Series
Regeneration trilogy (Pat Barker) volume 2
Language
English
Description
Near the end of World War I and faced with defeat, the British government and a vengeful public targets pacifists and homosexuals as scapegoats. Many are jailed or forced to lead double lives as "the eye in the door" symbolizes the paranoia threatening to unravel the fabric of British society.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Set in the magical Wessex landscape so familiar from Thomas Hardy's early work, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is unique among his great novels for the intense feeling that he lavished upon his heroine, Tess, a pure woman betrayed by love. Hardy poured all of his profound empathy for both humanity and the rhythms of natural life into this story of her beauty, goodness, and tragic fate. In so doing, he created a character who, like Emma Bovary and Anna...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012]
Language
English
Description
The BATAA-winning, international hit spy drama returns for a nail-biting tenth and final series. With the truth about Lucas North finally revealed, and following his rooftop showdown at the end of the last series, Harry is facing some complicated questions about the future of Section D as well as some skeletons from his own past.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Worlds collide and nothing is what it seems in the thrilling new installment of MI-5. While Tom has been branded a traitor, and Harry is in the hospital, an enigmatic agent, Adam Carter, has been recruited from MI-6 to help pick up the broken pieces.
Publisher
British Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
As the season begins, the fallout from Russia's thwarted attack on London finds the team in a race against time to rescue Harry, who has been kidnapped by rogue Russian agents. But as they dig deeper into his disappearance, they find a trail that leads to Iraq, and a conspiracy that involves the CIA, MI-6 and some missing weapons-grade uranium. Special features included.
10) Tess
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A timeless adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic romance. Tess Darbeyville, a beautiful young peasant, seeks her fortune with the wealthy D'Urbervilles, whom her family believes to be distant relatives.
11) Risen
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Clavius, a powerful Roman Military Tribune, and his aide Lucius, are tasked with solving the mystery of what happened to Jesus in the weeks following the crucifixion, in order to disprove the rumors of a risen Messiah and prevent an uprising in Jerusalem.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Based on the 1913 U.S. Open golf championship-at which two equally sympathetic young men, both of whom grew up economically and socially disadvantaged, go club to club in one of the most exciting and dramatic athletic events of the 20th century.
13) MI-5: Volume 7
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Undercover agents for the British government not only lie to infiltrate the organizations they are investigating, but the lies must continue in their personal lives as well.
15) MI-5: Volume 5
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A series of sinister terror strikes, combined with severe fuel shortages, has plunged Britain into crisis. As a chronically weakened prime minister fights to hold onto power, the public mood turns increasingly anarchic. MI-5 supremo Harry Pearce and team leader Adam Carter begin to face the horrifying possibility that the country is under attack from sinister forces right at the heart of the establishment.
16) Amistad
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©1999
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, the movie chronicles the incredible journey of a group of enslaved Africans who overtake their captor's ship and attempt to return to their beloved homeland. When the ship, La Amistad, is seized, these captives are brought to the United States where they are charged with murder and await their fate in prison. A battle ensues that captures the attention of the entire nation, confronting the very foundation of the American justice...
18) Joseph Andrews
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A poor but virtuous 18th century English country servant struggles to remain faithful to his true love, an innocent servant girl, amid the comically scandalous and debauched behaviour of all around him.
A poor but virtuous 18th century English country lad struggles to remain faithful to his true love, an innocent servant girl, amid the comically scandalous and debauched behaviour of all around him.
19) MI-5: Volume 1
Publisher
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
20) MI-5: Volume 2
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The threat to national security increases and the need to thwart the activities of terrorists operating within the UK becomes more urgent.