Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection (DVD / Box Set)

Collection of BBC drama series adapted from the novels by Charles Dickens. In 'Great Expectations' 2011 eleven-year-old Pip Oscar Kennedy encounters escaped criminal Magwitch Ray Winstone while out on the marshes and, out of fear, helps him, an event which will shape both of their futures. When the wealthy Miss Havisham Gillian Anderson seeks the presence of a boy at her grand house, Pip is sent to her and becomes a playmate for her adopted daughter, Estella Isobel Meikle-SmallVanessa Kirby. As a young adult, Pip Douglas Booth learns that he will receive an inheritance from a mystery benefactor when he turns 21. Now under the guardianship of lawyer Jaggers David Suchet, Pip moves to London where he hopes to become a gentleman worthy of Estella's love. In 'Little Dorrit' 2008 the Dorrit family has spent years in a debtors' prison due to the financial mess in which father William Tom Courtenay managed to land himself as a youth. Youngest daughter Amy Claire Foy, known as Little Dorrit, finds work with the wealthy Mrs Clenham Judy Parfitt but knows that her father will, in all probability, spend the remainder of his life in gaol. However, when Arthur Clenham Matthew Macfadyen, recently returned from abroad, comes to suspect that his late father was in part responsible for the Dorrits' plight, he becomes determined to make amends. But as he continues to delve into the mysteries of the Dorrits' and his parents' shared past, he is unaware that his own mother's house has been placed
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