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Arthur Chipping is the new Latin master at an English boy's boarding school. The eccentric schoolmaster lives a full, rich life within the cloistered school, defined by his role as the intellectual shepherd of generations of young students. Then while traveling through the countryside on summer holiday, he unexpected falls in love. His new wife ignites his passion and brings him out of his shell. Spans over 50 years in the life of Mr. Chipping.

Fifteen year old Charles Fox is sent away to boarding scholl from the isolated farm where he has grown up. There he must deal with both the bullying of the other boys and the intense affection of Penworth, one of the masters. But then, home for the holidays, he meets Margaret, a girl staying at a nearby farm, and a passionate bond develps between them.

"Flavia de Luce--"part Harriet the Spy, part Violet Baudelaire from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events" (The New York Times Book Review)--takes her remarkable sleuthing prowess to the unexpectedly unsavory world of Canadian boarding schools in the captivating new mystery from New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley"-- "Flavia rules! In this New York Times bestselling series of enchanting mysteries, youthful chemist and aspiring...

Landmark Emmy-winning production of the 9 hour Royal Shakespeare Company's worldwide stage event based on the Charles Dickens novel, starring Roger Rees. The second half of the play begins with a choral narration of earlier events. As Act III opens, a love interest for Nicholas develops. Madame Mantalini's business is about to go bankrupt, due to her husband's profligate ways, and Kate must leave. She takes a position as a lady's companion. While...

The Royal Shakespeare Company adapted and produced Charles Dickens' novel into a nine-hour Emmy award-winning production starring Roger Rees. In this episode, Nicholas receives accolades for his work with the theater troupe but Kate suffers in London when Sir Mulberry Hawk attempts to seduce her at a party she is hosting for her uncle. Part One of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby concludes with the actors performing a mock-Victorian revisionist...

Landmark Emmy-winning production of the 9 hour Royal Shakespeare Company's worldwide stage event based on the Charles Dickens novel, starring Roger Rees. Kate and Mrs. Nickleby move out of their temporary lodgings with the kind portrait artist, Miss La Creevy. Kate begins her employment with Madame Mantalini and her crew of milliners. Young and pretty, Kate is assigned to work with Miss Knag in the shop, awkwardly helping rich, spoiled, women try...

Landmark Emmy-winning production of the 9 hour Royal Shakespeare Company's worldwide stage event based on the Charles Dickens novel, starring Roger Rees.Hawk is confronted by a friend with a crisis of conscience, and a duel ensues. Guests arrive for Arthur Gride's wedding to Madeline, as engineered by Ralph Nickleby, and Nicholas panics. Smite takes ill and is brought to Nicholas and Kate's family home in Devon to be nursed. Television version of...

The Royal Shakespeare Company adapted Charles Dickens' novel into a nine-hour Emmy award-winning production starring Roger Rees. In this episode, Nicholas Nickleby along with his sister, Kate, and his mother, travel to London to ask their father's brother for financial aid. Ralph Nickleby places Nicholas as an assistant in Dotheboys Hall, a Yorkshire boarding school, and Kate in a milliner's shop in London. Television version of the Royal Shakespeare...

"Indian boarding schools were the lynchpins of a federally sponsored system of forced assimilation. These schools, located off-reservation, took Native children from their families and tribes for years at a time in an effort to "kill" their tribal cultures, languages, and religions. In Learning to Write "Indian," Amelia V. Katanski examines a range of writings that portray the Indian boarding-school experience - from descriptions of life within the...

"Johnston has created a story that radiates compassion, humor, and hope ... [His] story is essentially about the boys' refusal to be victimized. Unwittingly they learned the ways of psychic survival in adverse circumstances. In being rebellious, defiant, and insubordinate, they retained a sense of their own Indian identity and self-worth that made survival possible."--American Indian Quarterly.