Elizabeth Taylor
1) Angel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of an eccentric, talented girl of fifteen who escapes from the dreariness of provincial life and becomes a writer of extravagant, fantastic romantic stories.
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
498 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, plans, genealogical table ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"[C]hronicles a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the inspiring rise and calculated fall of the black elite, from Emancipation through Reconstruction to the Jim Crow Eraembodied in the experiences of an influential figure of the time, academic, entrepreneur, and political activist and black history pioneer Daniel Murray" -- provided by publisher.
"In the wake of the Civil War, Daniel Murray, born free and educated in Baltimore,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"On a rainy Sunday afternoon in January the recently widowed Mrs. Palfrey moves to the Claremont Hotel in South Kensington. "If it's not nice, I needn't stay," she promises herself, as she settles into this haven for the genteel and the decayed. "Three elderly widows and one old man who seemed to dislike female company and seldom got any other kind" serve for her fellow residents, and there is the staff, too, and they are one and all lonely. What...
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 304 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life of a former slave to James and Dolley Madison, tracing his early years on their plantation, his service in the White House household staff and post-emancipation achievements as a memoirist.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Harriet and Vesey meet when they are teenagers, and their love is as intense and instantaneous as it is innocent. But they are young. All life still lies ahead. Vesey heads off hopefully to pursue a career as an actor. Harriet marries and has a child, becoming a settled member of suburban society. And then Vesey returns, the worse for the wear, and with him the love whose memory they have both sentimentally cherished, and even after so much has happened...
9) Palladian
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books--Virago Press
Pub. Date
1985, c1946
Physical Desc
x, 191 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was remade in 1951 by George Stevens as A PLACE IN THE SUN. Montgomery Clift stars as George Eastman, a handsome and charming but basically aimless young man who goes to work in a factory run by a distant, wealthy relative. Feeling lonely one evening, he has a brief rendezvous with assembly-line worker Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters),...
18) Under milk wood
Publisher
Hart Sharp Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Special collector's ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This ambitious film, based on a radio play by poet Dylan Thomas, tells of the lives of several colorful characters living in a small Welsh town. Throughout, a background voice (native Welshman Richard Burton), narrates the day-in-the-life action.
20) Lassie come home
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The collie is sold and makes a cross-country journey back to her original family.
