A husband is hardly Elizabeth Bennet’s most urgent priority. With four sisters, a match-making mother, and a string of unsuitable suitors, it’s difficult to escape the subject.
Category: Mark Ellen
2012
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Enchanted April
Feeling lost in the shadows of marriage and forgotten in the rush of 1920s post-war society, two London housewives pool their savings to rent a villa in Italy for a ladies-only holiday away.
2009
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Witness For The Prosecution
Leonard Vole stands accused of murdering a rich widow. With shocking witness testimony, outbursts from the dock and a young man’s fight to escape the hangman’s noose.
2008
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Great Expectations
Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, an English orphan who rises to wealth, deserts his true friends, and becomes humbled by his own arrogance.
2005
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Flesh and Blood
Two brothers and a sister are marooned on a remote farm after their father’s death. They are thrown into a state of panic when one of them makes a bid for freedom.
2004
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Outside Edge
Roger has enough trouble assembling his cricket team to play against their local rivals, but these complications pall before those occurring among their various wives and girlfriends.
2003
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The Hollow
An unhappy game of romantic follow-the-leader explodes into murder one weekend at The Hollow, home of Sir Henry and Lucy Angkatell, arguably Christie’s finest comic grande dame.
2003
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The Lion in Winter
King Henry, his wife Eleanor, whom he has kept imprisoned in a tower for the past ten years; and their three sons, vye for the privilege of being named heir to the English throne.
2002
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On The Razzle
The story is basically one long chase, chiefly after two naughty grocer’s assistants, who, when their master goes off on a binge with a new mistress, escape to Vienna on a spree.
2002
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Arms and the Man
Raina Petkoff is engaged to Sergius Saranoff, a dashing major in the Bulgarian army. All seems well until a Swiss professional bursts into her bedroom, and begs her to hide him.