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Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 780 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 program guide (12 pages)
Language
English
Description
Television mini-series that dramatizes four generations of Adamses and 150 years of American history from the birth of the Revolution through the Gilded Age. Meet John Adams, a passionate revolutionary and second president; John Quincy Adams, proud son of a famous father and sixth president; Charles Francis Adams, skillful minister to Great Britain during the Civil War; historian Henry Adams; and railroad magnate Charles Francis Adams, Jr. Going beyond...
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Physical Desc
xxv, 399 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tracing the genesis of a masterpiece, a Fitzgerald scholar follows the novelist as he begins work on The Great Gatsby. The autumn of 1922 found F. Scott Fitzgerald at the height of his fame, days from turning twenty-six years old, and returning to New York for the publication of his fourth book, Tales of the Jazz Age. A spokesman for America's carefree younger generation, Fitzgerald found a home in the glamorous and reckless streets of New York....
Series
Criterion collection volume 293
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
Italiano
Description
"In a series of simple and joyous vignettes, director Roberto Rossellini and co-writer Federico Fellini lovingly convey the universal teachings of The People's Saint: humility, faith, and sacrifice. Gorgeously photographed to evoke the medieval paintings of Saint Francis' time, and cast with monks from the Nocera Inferiore Monastery"--Container.
Dramatization of the life of St. Frances of Assisi, focusing on the founding of the Franciscan order of...
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