Alice Thomas Ellis Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)

Alice Thomas Ellis introduces a remarkable collection of revenge stories by some of the finest contemporary women writers. This book seeks not to relay the ever burgeoning factual accounts of how women get their own back, but to show their reactions to betrayal, cruelty, and simple nastiness through the filter of fiction. One of the most satisfying means of revenge, as these authors clearly realize, is to put the offender in a story. Ellis studies the history of women's revenge against men, and emerges with fascinating insights into the dynamic differneces that place the sexes in passionate opposition. Alice Munro, Joyce Carol Oates, Fay Welson, Carol Shields, Pat Knight, Agatha Christie, Shelley Weiner, Patrice Chaplin, Judith Amantbis, Sylvia Petter, Jane Barker Wright, Norma Meacock, Pauline Holdstock, Jean Pickering, Vicky Crut, Deborah Bosley, Amanda Graig, and Clare Colvin.

" Le dernier jour de l'été, Mrs Bohannon tomba amoureuse. Les peupliers, faussement contrits, dressèrent dans le vent leurs branches horrifiées, et un nuage pèlerin pleura quelques larmes glacées. Tout commença dans un jardin, comme il est d'usage, et elle tomba amoureuse du fils de son époux. " Dans ce roman, Alice Thomas Ellis s'empare avec délectation d'un thème éternel et n'hésite pas à traiter ses personnages en archétypes romanesques : il en résulte une comédie de mœurs à l'humour impitoyable, dont les situations et les répliques sont en soi un véritable petit traité de la fiction - ou de l'amour.

Alice Thomas Ellis (1932 – 2005) veröffentlichte zahlreiche erfolgreiche Romane und Sachbücher. Sie war unter ihrem eigentlichen Namen – Anna Haycraft – als Lektorin und Herausgeberin im Duckworth Verlag tätig, der ihrem Mann Colin Haycraft gehörte.

Analyse : Roman psychologique.

Examines the current state of the Catholic Church, and attempts to unravel some of the moral complexities it faces today. From the Bishop Casey affair to women priests, this book offers a passionate, sometimes intemperate view of Roman Catholicism, dealing with its most controversial issues.

A sharp comedy of marriage, motherhood, and scandal, filled with mordant wit and moral philosophy. Its constituent novels The Clothes in the Wardrobe (1987), The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1988), and The Fly in the Ointment (1989) describe from three points of view the circumstances surrounding a wedding which, at the last minute, fortunately fails to take place. Basis for the 1993 film. With a new Afterword by Thomas Meagher

Alice Thomas Ellis (1932 – 2005) veröffentlichte zahlreiche erfolgreiche Romane und Sachbücher. Sie war unter ihrem eigentlichen Namen – Anna Haycraft – als Lektorin und Herausgeberin im Duckworth Verlag tätig, der ihrem Mann Colin Haycraft gehörte.

Psykologisk thriller om 6 mennesker, som tilbringer julen på en ensom, tågeindhyllet ø

The third and final volume of a trilogy following "The Clothes in the Wardrobe" and "The Skeleton in the Closet". The reader is treated to a view of the marriage of mousey Margaret through the eyes of the outrageous Lili who arrives from Paris to bring some glamour into other people's lives.

Lydia has a cottage in Wales to which she retires to recover from a broken love affair. She is accompanied against her will by Betty, who is concerned for her well-being and likes to do the cooking. While Lydia would prefer to be alone and will not admit to suffering from nerves, when she starts hearing odd noises in the night she is quite pleased to have a companion. Then they meet some of the local people and Lydia begins to realise that the search for peace on earth can be a vain exercise, that tragedy and misunderstanding not only travel well but are to be found proliferating in the remotest corners.

The 27th Kingdom is to be found in Chelsea, where Aunt Irene lives in a cosy, cluttered ménage with Kyril, her nephew. Their peace, however, is about to be invaded by Valentine, a young postulant sent by her Reverend mother to ‘test her vocation.’