Rudolf Rassendyll, an Englishman who looks exactly like King Rudolf V of Ruritania, rescues the real king from Black Michael’s castle of Zenda.

David Balfour, kidnapped by his miserly uncle Ebenezer and shipwrecked in Scotland, survives a flight across the Highlands with the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart.

Michael Henchard, who as a drunk young man sold his wife and baby at a fair and later became mayor of Casterbridge, loses everything: his wealth, his position and the stepdaughter Elizabeth-Jane he came to love.

Maggie Tulliver, an outcast after her scandalous boat trip with her cousin’s fiancé Stephen Guest, rows through a great flood to rescue her estranged brother Tom from the family mill.

Dorothea Brooke, whose late husband Edward Casaubon left a cruel will cutting her off if she married his young cousin Will Ladislaw, gives up her fortune and marries Will anyway.

Mary Poppins, the magical nanny who arrived on the east wind at the Banks family’s house on Cherry Tree Lane, leaves just as suddenly when the wind changes to the west.

George Kranky brews a crazy “medicine” from everything in the house to deal with his horrible grandmother, which makes her grow through the roof.

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Prosecutor Rusty Sabich is acquitted of murdering his colleague and former lover Carolyn Polhemus when the case collapses.

Rita, a Liverpool hairdresser who enrolled in an Open University literature course, passes her exam and gains the confidence to choose her own life.