The Magnificent Ambersons. Poster of the 1942 movie and cover of the 1918 book
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The Magnificent Ambersons
Booth Tarkington, 1918
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Orson Welles, Fred Fleck, 1942

At the beginning of the 20th century, Major Amberson gives a large party at the Amberson Mansion for George, who is home from college for the holidays. George dislikes Eugene, whom he sees as a social climber, and ridicules Eugene’s investment in the automobile. The Amberson sleigh then overturns, and Eugene gives everyone a ride back home.


Jane Eyre. Poster of the 1943 movie and cover of the 1847 book
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë, 1847
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Robert Stevenson, 1943

Jane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in a harsh charity school for girls. There she learns to become a teacher and eventually seeks employment outside of the school. Her advertisement is answered by the housekeeper of Thornfield Hall, Mrs. Fairfax.


Charlotte's Web. Poster of the 1973 movie and cover of the 1952 book
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Charlotte's Web
E.B. White, 1952
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Charles A. Nichols, Iwao Takamoto, 1973

Early one morning, Fern Arable prevents her father John from slaughtering a piglet as the runt of the litter. The publicity eventually dies down, and, after a hornet lands in Charlotte’s web and ruins the SOME PIG message, Charlotte requests the barn animals to devise a new word to spin within her web.