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Hace 1 día · June 2024 - 'Fingersmith' by Sarah Waters. During 2024, we have read a couple of books that have offered an insight into Victorian life in London, as a complement to our exhibition 'Lost Victorian City: a London disappeared'. The first was Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, which while set during the French Revolution directly speaks to ...
Hace 2 días · Based on Sarah Waters' book Fingersmith, Park Chan-wook's 2016 feature film The Handmaiden takes place in the Korea of the 1930s. The film begins with Korea under occupation by the Japanese. Here a small time swindler named Fujiwara (Ha Jung-woo) and his beautiful partner, a pickpocket named Sook-Hee (Kim Tae-ri) head to the remote estate home ...
Hace 5 días · Fingersmith — Waters, Sarah, 1966- — Growing up as a foster child among a family of thieves, orphan Sue Trinder hopes to pay back that kindness by playing a key role in a swindle scheme devised by their leader, who is planning to con a fortune out of the naive Maud Lilly.
Hace 2 días · Weeskind Sue Trinder groeit op in een dievenhuis nadat ze als baby is achtergelaten bij mevrouw Sucksby. Haar leven verandert voorgoed wanneer oplichter Richard Rivers, alias The Gentleman, haar betrekt in een duivels plan.
Hace 3 días · Fingersmith by Sarah Waters: It’s only fitting to have a gothic, Victorian, romance mystery on a monsoon reading list. Following the life of an orphan, Sue, we are taken on a complete rollercoaster ride of thievery, plotting, mental hospitals and forbidden love in a dark and Dickensian Victorian England setting. Sarah Waters has also been ...
Hace 2 días · The 10 best South Korean thriller movies: 10. Train to Busan (Yeon Sang-ho, 2016). We begin with Yeon Sang-ho’s brilliant Train to Busan, which manages to weave together a high-octane action frenzy with a touch of considered social commentary.Narratively, Train to Busan tells of a man and his young daughter who take a high-speed train from Seoul to Busan following the outbreak of a zombie ...
Hace 4 días · After a betrayal by her closest allies, she will do whatever it takes to win back what’s rightfully hers.
