Richard Pasco
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When the starving French masses rise in hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadent government, both the guilty and innocent become victims of their frenzied anger. Soon nothing stands in the way of the chilling figure they enlist for their cause - La Guillotine - the new invention for efficiently chopping off heads.
Charles Dickens' compelling portrait of the results of terror and treason, love and supreme sacrifice continues to captivate readers around...
2) Mrs. Brown
Language
English
Formats
Description
Queen Victoria ... was the world's most powerful woman. Rugged Scotsman John Brown ... was a lowly servant who looked after her horses. Yet when circumstances brought them together the result was a passionate friendship that scandalized a nation!
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (314 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A decorated British army officer returns home after the First World War to face unemployment, poverty, and his wife's desertion. Sorrell is forced to accept exhausting and demeaning jobs to provide his son the possibility for a brighter future.
4) Number 10
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Full Screen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (351 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Open Britain's most famous door for a glimpse at the personal affairs that have unfolded over the centuries inside Number 10 Downing Street. Spanning the Napoleonic era to the 1920s, each episode tells the story of a great public statesman, and of the private individual whose passions, hopes, and fears played out within the narrow confines of Number 10.
Series
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (161 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Breaking all conventional rules of drama, Shakespeare creates neither a clear-cut hero nor a villain. Instead, this great tragedy presents complicated human beings in agonizing conflict with one another, and themselves.
Publisher
BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Limited
Pub. Date
c1992
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Morse is a melancholy, enigmatic and romantic man who never uses his first name and who finds solace in real ale, classical music and difficult crosswords. Together with his able Sergeant Lewis, Morse uses his considerable intellect and passion for truth and justice to investigate death and murder in the English university town of Oxford.
Author
Language
English
Description
Over twenty unabridged selections of Rudyard Kipling's stories, poems and letters.
FULL LISTING
1. PRELUDE - "To Departmental Ditties†(1885) read by Rupert Degas
2. TODS' from "Plain Tales from the Hills†read by Martin Jarvis
3. THE BALLAD OF EAST AND WEST (1889) read by Rupert Degas
4. KIDKNAPPED from "Plain Tales from the Hills†read by Martin Jarvis
5. THE SONG OF THE SONS read by Rupert Degas
6. THE SONG OF THE...
Author
Language
English
Description
Classic Vampire tales read by Richard Pasco, whose expert reading ability is combined with a rich and sonorous voice, a former leading member of the Old Vic and The Royal Shakespeare Company.
Stories included:
Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker
The Mark Of The Beast by Rudyard Kipling
Aurelia by E.T.A. Hoffman
Mrs. Amworth by E.F. Benson
Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe
Author
Language
English
Description
A selection of the most chilling tales ever written
Rats and mice, and beetles and creaky doors, and loose slates, and broken panes, and stiff drawer handles, that stay out when you pull them and then fall down in the middle of the night. […] Rats is bogeys, I tell you, and bogeys is rats, and don't you get to think anything else!
Ghosts, vampires, werewolves and even rats, all make an appearance in this collection of frighteningly good...
Author
Language
English
Description
This chilling collection comprises the best of classic horror writing, with the atmospheric genius of Edgar Allan Poe, the invention and eeriness of Bram Stoker, and the suspense of Wilkie Collins amongst the terrifying gems contained. A veritable schooling in the origins of modern-day horror and fantasy, some of the best minds in the history of English literature take on the world of vampires, werewolves and the supernatural. STORY
This collection...
