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Pip, Magwitch on the marshes and Miss Havisham's rotting cake.

Dickens' favourite child, from a blacking factory to a writer's desk; Micawber and Uriah Heep.

A miner's son in Nottinghamshire, his mother and the women he cannot love; Lawrence's autobiography.

A 15-year-old on an Essex estate dances alone until her mother brings a man home.

Satyajit Ray's first film: a boy and his sister in a Bengal village, and a train through the kash field.

Truffaut's own childhood as Antoine Doinel, ending with the freeze frame on the beach.

Benjamin, Mrs Robinson and the bus at the end, to Simon and Garfunkel.

Watch the film Lolita, a controversial adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel about obsession and forbidden love.