🎭 Charles Dickens: British Classics Bleak House, Oliver Twist, & Hard Times

Bleak House, a Kafka-esque story of young innocents caught in an all-consuming, multi-generational lawsuit, cultivates a rich and potent Gothic horror; the 19th century seems like an unnerving alien world, through which lawyers and policemen stride like cruel predators. Staring Diana Rigg 1985 418mins Hard Times Thomas Gradgrind, a wealthy, retired merchant in the industrial city of Coketown, England, devotes his life to a philosophy of rationalism, self-interest, and fact. He raises his oldest children, Louisa and Tom, according to this philosophy and never allows them to engage in fanciful or imaginative pursuits 1977 3.5hrs Roman Polanski's adaptation of this classic novel. When Oliver Twist escapes from a miserable apprenticeship to London, the Artful Dodger (Harry Eden) initiates him into an infamous gang of pickpockets led by the notorious Fagin (Ben Kingsley). After a robbery goes wrong an innocent Oliver soon finds himself on the run from the evil Bill Sykes 130mins Like new condition Sold as set Can be broken up if requested Have questions? Please ask! Ships fast Nonsmoking home