Oliver Twist. Poster of the 1948 movie and cover of the 1838 book
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Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens, 1838
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David Lean, 1948

A young woman in labour makes her way to a parish workhouse and dies after giving birth to a boy, who is systematically named Oliver Twist by the workhouse authorities. As the years go by, Oliver and the rest of the child inmates suffer from the callous indifference of the officials in charge: beadle Mr. Bumble and matron Mrs. Corney.


Mutiny on the Bounty. Poster of the 1935 movie and cover of the 1932 book
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Mutiny on the Bounty
Charles Bernard Nordhoff, James Norman Hall, 1932
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Frank Lloyd, 1935

One night in Portsmouth, England in 1787, a press gang breaks into a local tavern and presses all of the men drinking there into naval service. One of the men enquires as to what ship they will sail on, and the press gang leader informs him that it is HMS Bounty.


Marie Antoinette. Poster of the 1938 movie and cover of the 1932 book, Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman
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Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman
Stefan Zweig, 1932
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W.S. Van Dyke, Julien Duvivier, 1938

In 1769 Vienna, Empress Maria Theresa of Austria tells her daughter Maria Antonia she is to marry the Dauphin Louis-Auguste. On her second wedding anniversary, Madame du Barry, King Louis XV’s mistress, gifts Marie with an empty cradle and a poem critical of her inability to produce an heir.


Little Women. Poster of the 1933 movie and cover of the 1868 book
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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott, 1868
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George Cukor, 1933

Four sisters and their mother, whom they call Marmee, live in a new neighborhood in Massachusetts in genteel poverty. Having lost all his money, their father is serving as a chaplain in the American Civil War, far from home. The mother and daughters face their first Christmas without him.