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Now showing — The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists · 5 works
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Baltimore's institutions examined season by season. The novel as television.
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A New Jersey mob boss in therapy. The show that invented prestige television.
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The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists is a 1914 semi-autobiographical novel by Irish house painter and sign writer Robert Noonan, who wrote the book in his spare time under the pen name Robert Tressell. Published after Tressell's death from tuberculosis in the Liverpool Royal Infirmary in 1911, the novel follows a ho...
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The Corleone family saga. Power, loyalty, and the corruption of the American dream.
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A knight plays chess with Death during the plague. Bergman's most iconic existential parable.
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