Trefwoord Classic Literature

Lorna Doone is een heerlijk avontuurlijk verhaal dat zich afspeelt op het Engelse platteland van de 17e eeuw. Als kind ziet John Ridd hoe zijn vader door leden van de gevreesde familie Doone wordt vermoord. Hij zweert wraak. Maar jaren later leert hij Lorna Doone kennen. Het is liefde op het eerste gezicht, ook van haar kant, ondanks de vete tussen de beide families. Dan komt aan het licht dat Lorna eigenlijk helemaal geen echte Doone is. Ze is als kind bij haar adellijke familie weg geroofd door de Doones. Maar van deze ontdekking wordt de situatie alleen maar ingewikkelder: vanwege het standsverschil mag Lorna niet met haar ware liefde trouwen. Zal John haar toch tot zijn vrouw weten te maken? Gebaseerd op de roman van R.D. Blackmore.

Op 31 januari 1857 nam de Franse schrijver Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) zijn plaats in de beklaagdenbank wegens minachting van de publieke moraal en religie. De beschuldigde, de echte, is via hem Emma Bovary, heldin met duizend gezichten en duizend verlangens, zonder twijfel schuldig aan een onvergeeflijk verlangen om te leven.

Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of "Papa" Dino Golzine, Ash, now at the rebellious age of seventeen, forsakes the kingdom held out by the devil who raised him. But the hideous secret that drove Ash's older brother mad in Iraq has suddenly fallen into Papa's insatiably ambitious hands—and it's exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash Lynx's acquaintance.

The crown of England has been hotly contested throughout history, and in the Middle Ages, a series of great civil wars became known as the War of the Roses. Claiming a right to the throne, the Duke of York seeks to unseat King Henry VI and his heir in order to become king himself.

The Kusaribe family is a family of sorcerers under the protection of the ‘Tree of Origins.’ Their princess, Hakaze Kusaribe, was the greatest sorceress of their family. But Samon Kusaribe, a member of their family seeking to resurrect the ‘Tree of World's End,’ a tree that opposes the ‘Tree of Origins’ and controls the power of destruction, stuffs her into a barrel, and banishes her to a deserted island.

Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall in Heorot has been under attack by a monster known as Grendel.

1837: Another year of the grueling Caucasian war. A young officer, Grigory Pechorin, was sent into exile to the active army for participating in a duel. Here in the Caucasus, Pechorin will have to become an unwitting participant in rapidly unfolding events - a fight with smugglers, the abduction of a young Circassian princess, another duel. And when the whole world turns against Pechorin, and a close friend falls by his hand, he will continue his journey alone, a hero, a product of the new age...

Who was Homer, and what is the meaning of The Odyssey? In this documentary we follow the footsteps of Ulysses, also known by his Greek name Odysseus—a hero as relevant today as he was nearly three thousand years ago, on a journey across some of the most fascinating landscapes and seascapes of the Mediterranean region. With the help of prominent international scholars, we seek to resolve the questions that still surround one of humanity’s greatest literary works and its enigmatic author.

Simon Schama celebrates the life and work of one of Britain's greatest love poets, John Donne.

This series retraces the origins and journeys of major European works of international significance, whose original manuscript has survived through the ages. Each film attempts to analyze an original manuscript as if it were a crucial clue, in hopes to reveal the secrets behind each work.