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Dates: during 1970-1979
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RETURN TO WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Anna L 'Estrange; 365 pages...
Played with appropriate panache by Stuart Wilson, he is a handsome figure of dash and romance, the highest flier of a high-living crowd. "I feel like a starving man when someone gives him food," is the way Anna describes her feelings to ward...
...hour series has an advantage - perhaps eight hours - over a movie. This Anna has the capaciousness and subtlety that the film versions, good as they were, necessarily lacked. Tolstoy had originally thought of calling his novel Two Marriages, and a major theme of the book is the contrast between the happily allied Kitty (Caroline Langrishe) and Levin (Robert Swann) and the ill-matched Karenins. The series is able to develop that subplot and prove, so far as Tolstoy was concerned anyway, the thesis of the novel's famous opening sentence: "All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family...
...camera is more at home in the salon and ballroom scenes, which perfectly convey the elegant Frenchified world of the pre-Revolutionary aristocracy, where everything is al lowed so long as it is hidden. Nearly everyone is having an affair like Anna's and Vronsky's, and adultery seems to be the thing the rich do best...
...Anna Karenina is a story of contrasts, happiness against unhappiness, warmth against cold. It has been told well before, but, except in the book itself, of course, it has never been presented with such building strength and certain inevitability as in this production from...