Bibliograph

Classic English Literature Collection, A Room with a View, Mystery of Edwin Drood, Turn of the Screw, Mansfield Park

Type

Label

Classic English Literature Collection, A Room with a View, Mystery of Edwin Drood, Turn of the Screw, Mansfield Park

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

TV rating: Not rated

Main title

Classic English Literature Collection

Oclc number

871426001

resource.otherEventInformation

Originally broadcast on television as segments of "Masterpiece theatre" (some as "Masterpiece classics") 1999-2012

Runtime

240

Sub title

A Room with a View, Mystery of Edwin Drood, Turn of the Screw, Mansfield Park

Summary

John Jasper, a choirmaster and opium addict, struggles with fits of paranoia and jealousy as he watches the women he loves fall in love with his nephew, Edwin Drood; Fanny Price, a young impoverished woman, arrives at her uncle's country estate, and is snubbed by everyone except her cousin Edmund, whom she soon grows to love; mystery surrounds a pretty Victorian governess and her two young charges as the children become possessed by ghostly spells; an adventurous young woman in Edwardian England vacations in Italy where she falls in love with a completely unsuitable man

Table Of Contents

The mystery of Edwin Drood (2012) / written by Gwyneth Hughes ; directed by Diarmuid Lawrence -- Mansfield Park (2007) / written by Maggie Wadey ; directed by Iain B. MacDonald -- The turn of the screw (1999) / written by Nick Dear ; directed by Ben Bolt -- A room with a view (2007) / written by Andrew Davies ; directed by Nicholas Renton

Target audience

general

Technique

live action

Classification