The Lady Vanishes. Poster of the 1938 movie and cover of the 1936 book, The Wheel Spins
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The Wheel Spins
Ethel Lina White, 1936
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Alfred Hitchcock, 1938

English tourist Iris Henderson and her friends Blanche and Julie are in the fictional European country of Bandrika. In the same predicament are Charters and Caldicott, English cricket enthusiasts anxious to see the last days of the Test match in Manchester, and Miss Froy, a governess and music teacher who is returning home to England.


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.