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€And Then There Were None € by € AGATHA CHRISTIE € € €CHAPTER 1 € €IN THE CORNER of a first-class smoking carriage, Mr. Justice Wargrave, lately€retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar and ran an interested eye. Agatha Christie went on to write over 40 novels featuring the proud and immaculate Hercule Poirot. Like Conan Doyle, Christie had no great love for her own creation – Poirot seemed to be admired by the public more than the writer herself. Agatha Christie.
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa ChristieDBE (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an Englishwriter of crime stories. Her books are very famous all over the world, and she sold a lot of books-4 billion books around the world. Only William Shakespeare has sold more books. Also, her books are written in more languages than any other writer's books. People can read them in 103 different languages. Her stories are about murders and finding out who did them. It is hard to find that person. There is a detective who tries to catch the bad person. People like reading her books because they can try to find the answer, too. Reading these books is like playing a game. The most well-known characters in her books are Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. Miss Marple is an old English lady, and she talks to everyone. People do not think she is smart, but she always finds the bad person. She uses logic to find out who is guilty of the murder. Hercule Poirot is a strange man, a private detective from Belgium who lives in London. He likes to find out who did the murder by thinking about all the evidence. The stories of Poirot and Miss Marple were made into many TV shows and movies.
Christie also wrote plays. One of them is called The Mousetrap, and it started over 60 years ago. It remains the world's longest-running play.
Christie was born in Torquay in Devon, England. She did not go to school. She had lessons from her mother at home. Her mother thought children should not learn to read until they were eight years old. But Christie learned how to read by herself when she was four. She read many books, so she learned to become a good writer. She later became a very good pianist and singer, too. She was married twice; she had a daughter called Rosalind Hicks. She worked in a hospital and in a pharmacy during World War I. She also wrote romance novels and plays. They were very successful too. In 1971, she was honoured by the Queen with the title Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.[1]
Christie died on 12 January 1976 at age 85 from natural causes at her Winterbrook House in the north of Cholsey parish, adjoining Wallingford in Oxfordshire (formerly part of Berkshire). She is buried in the nearby churchyard of St Mary's, Cholsey.
The Guinness Book of World Records ranks Christie as the best-selling novelist ever. Her novels have sold about 4 billion copies. Her works are the world's most-widely published books after those of William Shakespeare and the Bible.[2] Her books have been translated into at least 103 languages.[3] Christie's best-selling novel is And Then There Were None. It has sold 100 million copies. It is the world's best-selling mystery novel.[4]
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- ↑Kastan, David Scott (2006), The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, 1, Oxford University Press, p. 467.
- ↑Flemming, Michael (15 February 2000). 'Agatha Christie gets a clue for filmmakers'. Variety. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
- ↑Guinness Book of World Records, Sterling, 1976, p. 210.
- ↑Davies, Helen; Dorfman, Marjorie; Fons, Mary; Hawkins, Deborah; Hintz, Martin; Lundgren, Linnea; Priess, David; Robinson, Julia Clark; Seaburn, Paul (14 September 2007). '21 Best-Selling Books of All Time'. Editors of Publications International. Archived from the original on 7 April 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-25.Unknown parameter
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If we don’t learn from the past, we’ll be doomed to repeat it. Ten little nigger boys went out to dine One choked his little self, and then there were nine. And Then There Were None is one of Agatha Christie’s most celebrated mystery novels, and purportedly one of the most difficult for her to write.
The first of these, inwas neyritos by the BBC. One by one, the guests share the darkest secrets of their wicked pasts. It’s much like a mix of the movie Clue and the television show Harper’s Islandboth of which, I’m sure, are heavil Well I guess I sort of solved the mystery. Often killers are so easy to work out.
Probably the best-known Christie, and justifiably among the most popular. I know I’m in the minority but I cannot help feeling let down. Not a great sign.
Retrieved 1 July It was a bit disappointing. Chrlstie 3 November Four little nigger boys going out to sea Christoe red herring swallowed one, and then there were three. Ten people, each with something to hide and something to fear, are invited to a isolated mansion on Indian Island by a host who, surprisingly, fails to appear.
There is a jingle of sorts in each of their rooms quoted above and the murders start happening from there on out. There is violence obviously—murder not really graphic but no rape or sexual abuse.
Information from my copy of gaatha book. I had heard that Christie plays fair in all of her novels, that she does not resort to deus ex machina tactics.
Anexo:Adaptaciones cinematográficas de la novela Diez negritos
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Several avatha of the original novel were adapted for television, three of which were British adaptations. And the motive for the crime was too preposterous for me. Many adaptations incorporate changes to the story, such as using Christie’s alternative ending from her stage play or changing the setting to locations other than an island.
Call me an idiot, maybe this was obvious for other people? It works better as a first person narrative; the unreliable narrator is more likely to forget to tell you important clues. Without a shred of doubt, one of his fellow passengers is the murderer.
A world, perhaps, from which you may never return. There is a lot of talking in this book, not enough doing. Since this is pretty offensive it was changed to “Ten little Indians”. This book is not yet featured lls Listopia.
Not only were there several other options that would have agtha for a more interesting and compelling story, but I also think it’s incredibly lazy to reveal everything in a random letter in the epilogue. It was an okay book about a phenomenal mystery. Recommended for Agatha Christie lovers. They play kos cards very close to their chests, keeping their own dirty little secrets hidden.