![]() Here are our lists of the best movies and TV shows on Netflix, the best movies on Amazon Prime Video and the best of everything on Hulu and Disney+. (Note: Streaming services sometimes remove titles of change starting dates without notice.) The list below is an effort to recommend a diverse range of movies - old and new, foreign and domestic, all-ages and adults-only - that cross genres and cultures while appealing to casual and serious movie-watchers alike. HBO Max is also an education in Golden Age Hollywood classics and in independent and foreign auteurs like Federico Fellini, Satyajit Ray and John Cassavetes. That means a lot of large-scale fantasy series like Harry Potter and “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, and selections from the DC extended universe. ![]() WarnerMedia, which owns HBO, is a huge conglomerate, and its premiere streaming service comprises decades of titles from Warner Bros., Turner Classic Movies and Studio Ghibli, as well as new work produced directly for HBO Max. ![]() But, if anything, its movie library draws from a much deeper well. When HBO Max debuted in May 2020, subscribers rightfully expected (and got) the formidable catalog of prestige television associated with the HBO brand. ![]()
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Domestic Violence: "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange" & "The Hound of the Baskervilles" 1 T15:28:13-05:00 Margaret Murray 747f62603c54d03d7a0d94f044ceeca676df8c3e 64 29 plain 2166 T10:52:28-05:00 Margaret Murray 747f62603c54d03d7a0d94f044ceeca676df8c3e Domestic violence was not unknown in the Victorian era. ![]() Ideal and Real Female Experience in Sherlock Holmes' Stories Main Menu Introduction Revised 12/13 The Popularity of Detective Fiction in the Victorian Era The Conventional View of Sherlock Holmes The Idealized View of the Victorian Woman Unmarried Women & The Right to Property: "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" & The Adventure of the Copper Beeches" Married Women & The Right to Property: "The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist" Victorian Female Reputation: "The Adventure of the Second Stain" & "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton" Sherlock Holmes and The New Woman: "A Scandal in Bohemia" Bibliography Margaret Murray 747f62603c54d03d7a0d94f044ceeca676df8c3e Source Unknown. 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