Masterpiece's classic season premiered on January 4, 2009 featuring three beloved romance tales —
Tess of the d'Urbervilles and
Wuthering Heights in January and
Sense and Sensibility in early February. The Tales of Charles Dickens, a quartet of his greatest works, airs from mid February to early May with new productions of
Oliver Twist,
Little Dorrit and
The Old Curiosity Shop, plus an encore of
David Copperfield.
Here's the upcoming schedule (check your local listings for air times):
Sense and Sensibility -- February 1 and 8 (two 90-minute episodes)
Oliver Twist -- February 15 and 22 (new 3-hour adaptation in two 90-minute episodes)
David Copperfield -- March 15 and 22 (3.5-hour encore with Daniel Radcliffe's first performance, episode one 90 minutes and episode two 120 minutes)
Little Dorrit -- March 29 through April 26 (new 8-hour mini series in five episodes)
The Old Curiosity Shop -- May 3 (one new 90 minute episode)
The Masterpiece Guide to Teaching Charles Dickens, featuring provocative
discussion questions and interactive activities, is available from the PBS website:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/learn/
Links to the books in MobileRead's library:
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Sony (.lrf) format
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles, MobiPocket format
- Wuthering Heights, HTML
- Wuthering Heights, eReader format
- Wuthering Heights, Sony (.lrf) format
- Wuthering Heights, MobiPocket format
- Sense and Sensibility, eBookwise (.imp) format
- Sense and Sensibility, Sony (.lrf) format
- Sense and Sensibility, MobiPocket format
- Oliver Twist, eBookwise (.imp) format
- Oliver Twist, Sony (.lrf) format
- Oliver Twist, MobiPocket format
- David Copperfield, Sony (.lrf) format
- David Copperfield, MobiPocket format
- David Copperfield, eBookwise (.imp) format
- Little Dorrit, Sony (.lrf) format
- Little Dorrit, MobiPocket format
- Little Dorrit, eBookwise (.imp) format
- The Old Curiosity Shop, Sony (.lrf) format
- The Old Curiosity Shop, MobiPocket format
- The Old Curiosity Shop, eBookwise (.imp) format