Andrew Sachs
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009, ©1975
Description
Basil Fawlty is the sharp-tongued, short-fused owner of Fawlty Towers, a hotel plagued by crisis, chaos and bizarre characters. This set collects all 12 episodes of the British comedy, and also includes interviews with the writer and star, John Cleese.
Basil Fawlty is the much put-upon hotel manager whose life is plagued by dead guests, hotel inspectors and riff-raff. Named the #1 television program of all time by the British Film Institute, the...
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
[2006], c1994
Description
Through the ages, man has depended on plants for everything from oxygen to food to building supplies. Gives a colorful tour of the world's most dazzling flora - from the most magical to the most bizarre. Watch buds burst, flowers bloom, and discover the myriad ways plants struggle to survive.
8) Candide
Author
Series
Publisher
Quality Paperback Book Club
Pub. Date
c1991
Description
"If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?" - CANDIDE
Candide is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. It is the absurdly melodramatic story of a young man, Candide, living a sheltered life who clings desperately to "the best of all possible worlds," one which is abruptly interrupted by a series of painfully disillusioning events that set him off on a wide-ranging journey....