Brian Percival
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
Original UK ed., widescreen version.
Description
Set in an Edwardian country house in 1912, Downton Abbey portrays the lives of the Crawley family and the servants who work for them. In the drawing rooms, library, and beautiful bedrooms, with their tall windows looking across the park, lives the family, but below stairs are other residents, the servants, as fiercely possessive of their ranks as anyone above.
Pub. Date
2022
Description
"A trip back home to Glasgow presents James with a dilemma that will mean choosing between the people he loves. As Helen and James navigate their feelings for one another, Siegfried, Tristan, and Mrs. Hall are also forced to consider their places in the world, while James must decide between supporting his family or following his heart." -- Container.
Series
Pub. Date
�2012
Edition
Original UK ed.
Description
The Great War rages across Europe, and not even the serene Yorkshire countryside is free from its effects. The men and women of Downton are doing their part: heir Matthew Crawley and footman Thomas Barrow are off fighting, while Lady Grantham and Isobel Crawley are squabbling over whether Downton should be used as a hospital. Lady Mary is seeing a wealthy newspaper magnate while Lady Edith becomes much warmer and Lady Sybil seeks to ingratiate herself...
7) Dark angel
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
A cold blooded Victorian serial killer kills three husbands and eleven children. Based on a true story, she was eventually caught and hung for her crimes in 1873.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Nell Trent lives with her doting grandfather in his London shop. It is a magical place, filled from wall to wall with treasures. Grandfather keeps his nocturnal gambling activities a secret from Nell. He borrows heavily from the evil, profiteering loan shark Daniel Quilp. When Grandfather gambles away what little money they possess, Quilp seizes the opportunity to take possession of their beloved shop. It seems Nell and Grandfather are left only with...
10) North & south
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Description
A young woman is forced leave behind her priviliged rural lifestyle when her father moves the family to a northern working class town.
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Description
Three BBC miniseries adapted from Mary Gaskells classic novels. Cranford, a market town in the North West of England, is a place governed by etiquette, custom and above all, an intricate network of ladies. It seems that life has always been conducted according to their social rules, but Cranford is on the cusp of change North & South follows Margaret Hale, the daughter of a middle-class parson who uproots the family from rural southern England to...