Books with author Jenny Agutter

Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoiled, vain, and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village, but her attempts at matchmaking lead to misunderstandings and potential heartbreak. Only her friend and neighbor Mr. Knightley dares to point out the mistakes she is making and encourages her to change her ways. Considered by many to be the best English novel, Emma is at once a charming love story, a detective story, and a comic and lively portrait of English life two hundred years ago. Emma is now a major BBC television series starring Romola Garai, Jonny Lee Miller, and Michael Gambon. Jenny Agutter reads Jane Austen’s classic novel, complete and unabridged.

The magic of ballet is evoked in these enchanting stories presented with many musical excerpts from the works themselves. Jenny Agutter, who, before turning to acting, was a dancer, presents the stories of two French ballets -- Giselle Coppelia -- and the three great ballets by Tchaikovsky, in engaging style. These are tales of princes and princesses, of good fairies and bad witches, and, in Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, the brave soldier and Clara -- but does it happen, or is it a dream? And there is the music - the lovely melody from Swan Lake, the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, and the waltzes and the richly atmospheric passages painting, in sound, castles, forests, mists and lakes. A perfect introduction to The Ballet Jenny Agutter began her performing life as a ballet dancer in the Walt Disney film Ballerina. But she rose to fame in the television production and subsequently the film of The Railway Children. She has been equally active in the theater in varied roles for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal National Theatre and on Broadway. Her recent television credits include The Buccaneers, Heartbeat, and the television series And The Beat Goes On.