Margery Sharp
1) The rescuers
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Miss Bianca, a white mouse of great beauty and self-confidence, travels with the ambassador's son to Norway on behalf of the Prisoner's Aid Society in a perilous mission to rescue a poet imprisoned in the dreadful Black Castle.
Author
Pub. Date
[1937]
Language
English
Description
Set in 1930s France, Margery Sharp's witty, warm-hearted novel tells the story of a free-spirited mother who is reunited with her very proper daughter after sixteen years, when her daughter asks her to inspect her fiancé Julia Packett has barely laid eyes on her daughter, Susan, since leaving her with her proper, well-heeled in-laws after her husband was killed in World War I. Now thirty-seven, her lack of prospects hasn't dimmed her spirit or appetite...
Author
Pub. Date
1930.
Language
English
Description
It was indeed very difficult for the Laventie children not to be a little priggish.
Ann Laventie, the youngest of three children in a long line of anti-social Sussex gentry, doesn't quite fit the mould of her intellectual, elegant, ultra-modern siblings Dick, an artist, and Elizabeth, a high-brow writer. Their father is scholarly and just wealthy enough to focus all his attention on reading and other highbrow pursuits. Ann, on the other hand, worries...
Author
Pub. Date
1948.
Edition
[First edition].
Language
English
Description
Sentimental, affectionate, uncritical, Mrs. Bracken so easily attached herself to persons, places, and even objects that after no more than two days in an hotel she had a favourite waiter, a favourite ornament, a favourite view. She had adored her husband, and was very fond of her French pepper-mill.
World War II has ended and widowed Isabel Brocken, kind-hearted and generous if perhaps just a bit foolish, is back in her old family home on the outskirts...
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Thirty-fifth anniversary edition.
Language
English
Description
The Rescuers: Two brave mice try to rescue a kidnapped young orphan from the hilariously evil Madame Medusa, who is obsessed with getting her hands on the world's largest diamond.
The Rescuers down under: When a poacher sets out to capture a golden eagle in the outback of Australia, his friend Cody's call for help is answered by the world's bravest mice, Bernard and Bianca, who fly in on the wings of their albatross friend Wilbur to face their most...
13) Cluny Brown
Series
Criterion collection volume 997
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
Set in England on the cusp of World War II, the final film by Ernst Lubitsch is a zany comedy of manners that sends up British class hierarchy with his famously light touch. Cluny Brown is an irrepressible heroine with a zeal for plumbing. Sent to work as a parlormaid at a stuffy country manor, she proceeds to turn the household upside down with plenty of help from Adam Belinski, an eccentric Continental exile who has fled the Nazis but is still worried...
14) The rescuers
Language
English
Description
Two brave mice try to rescue a kidnapped young orphan from the hilariously evil Madame Medusa, who is obsessed with getting her hands on the world's largest diamond.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A bored Army private throws a party without his commanding officer's knowledge; a married man poses as the husband of a beautiful girl to help her get her inheritance; an American diplomat and his beautiful landlady stumble onto a jewel heist and murder; after her husband is killed in action and she is remarried, Julie discovers her first husband is still alive.
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Thirty-fifth anniversary edition.
Language
English
Description
The rescuers: A shy but brave mouse and his glamorous partner embark on a mission to save a young girl named Penny. With their albatross friend, they find themselves on the riverboat hideout of the hilariously evil Madame Medusa.
The rescuers down under: The heroes travel to Australia to help a new friend.
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