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Stevenson, Juliet
Most widely held works about
Juliet Stevenson
Most widely held works by
Juliet Stevenson
Mona Lisa smile(
visu
)
1
edition published
in
2004
in
English
and held by
1,559
libraries
worldwide
Set in 1953, Katherine Watson is a free-spirited graduate of UCLA who accepts a teaching post at Wellesley College, a women-only school where the students are torn between the repressive mores of the time and their longing for intellectual freedom.
Emma(
visu
)
1
edition published
in
1999
in
English
and held by
1,160
libraries
worldwide
Emma Woodhouse is a young woman who, having engineered the marriage of her companion, turns her attention toward making a match for the local vicar and her new protegée, Harriet Smith. Her one voice of reason and restraint is Mr. Knightley, who has known her since she was a child and who watches her behaviour with wry amusement and sometimes with real anger. Emma presides over the small provincial world of Highbury with enthusiasm, but she will find it is all too easy to confuse good intentions with self-gratification.
Being Julia(
visu
)
1
edition published
in
2005
in
English
and held by
1,158
libraries
worldwide
London, 1938. Julia is a true West End diva: beautiful, talented, wealthy, and famous. She has a devoted husband who has masterminded her brilliant career - but after years of the spotlight she begins to suffer from a severe case of boredom and longs for something new and exciting to put the twinkle back in her eye. She finds what she is looking for in a handsome young American fan, who adds a few more sparks than Julia was hoping for.
Bend it like Beckham(
visu
)
1
edition published
in
2003
in
English
and held by
1,157
libraries
worldwide
Eighteen year-old Jesminder's parents want her to be a nice, conventional Indian girl. But she just wants to play soccer like her hero, David Beckham. For Jess, that means kicking a ball around the local park with the lads until she's spotted by Jules, who invites her to join the local women's team.
Bend it like Beckham(
visu
)
12
editions published
between
2002
and
2008
in
English and Hindi
and held by
1,152
libraries
worldwide
Eighteen year-old Jesminder's parents want her to be a nice, conventional Indian girl. But she just wants to play soccer like her hero, David Beckham. For Jess, that means kicking a ball around the local park with the lads until she's spotted by Jules, who invites her to join the local women's team.
Emma(
visu
)
9
editions published
between
1996
and
2002
in
English
and held by
1,073
libraries
worldwide
Emma Woodhouse is a young woman who, having engineered the marriage of her companion, turns her attention toward making a match for the local vicar and her new protegée, Harriet Smith. Her one voice of reason and restraint is Mr. Knightley, who has known her since she was a child and who watches her behaviour with wry amusement and sometimes with real anger. Emma presides over the small provincial world of Highbury with enthusiasm, but she will find it is all too easy to confuse good intentions with self-gratification.
Antigone(
visu
)
25
editions published
between
1984
and
2008
in
English
and held by
926
libraries
worldwide
A unique adaptation of the play by Sophocles.
Infamous(
visu
)
4
editions published
between
2006
and
2007
in
English
and held by
907
libraries
worldwide
While researching his book "In cold blood", writer Truman Capote develops a relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and, in particular Perry Smith, while both men waited for their date of execution on death row.
Pericles, Prince of Tyre(
visu
)
11
editions published
between
1983
and
2009
in
English
and held by
776
libraries
worldwide
The Prince of Tyre is pursued by the vengeance of King Antiochus because he discovered the monarch's incestuous relationship with his daughter. Fleeing from place to place, Pericles is shipwrecked, courts, and marries Thaisa. Their child, Marina, raised by friends when Thaisa is believed to have died, is kidnapped by pirates and sold into a brothel before Thaisa is discovered alive and the family is joyfully reunited.
I, Coriander by Sally Gardner (
Sound Recording
)
11
editions published
between
2005
and
2006
in
English
and held by
577
libraries
worldwide
In 17th century London, Coriander, a girl who has inherited magic from her mother, must find a way to use this magic in order to save both herself and an inhabitant of the fairy world where her mother was born.
When did you last see your father(
visu
)
1
edition published
in
2008
in
English
and held by
569
libraries
worldwide
A 40-year-old writer visits his dying father. He begins to relive the memories of the past - both good and bad - and he is forced to realize that his once "immortal, invincible and infallible" father is human after all.
Truly madly deeply(
visu
)
11
editions published
between
1990
and
2008
in
English and No Linguistic Content
and held by
538
libraries
worldwide
A young woman's world falls apart when her boyfriend dies. When he unexpectedly returns to life as a ghost, she must choose between the man she truly, madly, deeply loved--and a new man who is truly, madly, deeply alive.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (
Sound Recording
)
19
editions published
between
1993
and
2010
in
English
and held by
525
libraries
worldwide
A novel about the problems of a young governess, whose love affair with her master is terminated when the terrifying mystery surrounding the upper rooms of their home is exposed.
Oedipus at Colonus(
visu
)
18
editions published
between
1986
and
2008
in
English
and held by
518
libraries
worldwide
This play recounts the blind, exiled Oedipus' final days. The primary action involves a fight over where Oedipus is to die (as that place is to become hallowed ground). Familial interactions also play a key role in the drama.
The road from Coorain(
visu
)
4
editions published
between
2002
and
2010
in
English
and held by
500
libraries
worldwide
Video adaptation of Jill Ker Conway's book about an idyllic life in Australia permanently altered by a series of disasters. Conway later became president of Smith College.
Mona Lisa smile(
visu
)
4
editions published
between
2003
and
2008
in
English
and held by
382
libraries
worldwide
Set in 1953, Katherine Watson is a free-spirited graduate of UCLA who accepts a teaching post at Wellesley College, a women-only school where the students are torn between the repressive mores of the time and their longing for intellectual freedom.
The Snow Queen(
visu
)
5
editions published
between
2006
and
2007
in
English
and held by
382
libraries
worldwide
Gerda and her mother take in a penniless beggar boy, Kay, and powerful forces take both children on a magical journey, testing their friendship to the extreme along the way. Kay goes missing, so with faith, love, and courage, Gerda goes to find him.
Paris was a woman(
visu
)
10
editions published
between
1996
and
2004
in
English
and held by
360
libraries
worldwide
Through a combination of still photos, archival film footage, and interview commentary, documents the creative community of French, English and American women, many of whom were lesbians, who gravitated to the Left Bank in Paris during the early part of the 20th century.
To the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (
Sound Recording
)
18
editions published
between
1995
and
2010
in
English and No Linguistic Content
and held by
357
libraries
worldwide
The Ramsay family and the one summer spent with their friends in their holiday home in Scotland. Offshore stands the lighthouse; remote, inaccessible, and an external presence in a changing world.
Emma by Jane Austen (
Sound Recording
)
20
editions published
between
1996
and
2010
in
English
and held by
355
libraries
worldwide
Presents Jane Austen's classic novel in which young, well-to-do, and bored Emma Woodhouse learns a thing or two about true class--and love--after an eventful turn as a matchmaker.
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