Author: Janet Morgan
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0007392990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Janet Morgan’s definitive and authorised biography of Agatha Christie, with a new retrospective foreword by the author.
Agatha Christie: A Biography
Author: Janet Morgan
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0007392990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Janet Morgan’s definitive and authorised biography of Agatha Christie, with a new retrospective foreword by the author.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0007392990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Janet Morgan’s definitive and authorised biography of Agatha Christie, with a new retrospective foreword by the author.
An Autobiography
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007353227
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 743
Book Description
Agatha Christie’s ‘most absorbing mystery’ – her own autobiography.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007353227
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 743
Book Description
Agatha Christie’s ‘most absorbing mystery’ – her own autobiography.
Agatha Christie
Author: Laura Thompson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681777118
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
It has been one hundred years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. A brilliant and award winning biographer, Laura Thompson now turns her sharp eye to Agatha Christie. Arguably the greatest crime writer in the world, Christie's books still sell over four million copies each year—more than thirty years after her death—and it shows no signs of slowing.But who was the woman behind these mystifying, yet eternally pleasing, puzzlers? Thompson reveals the Edwardian world in which Christie grew up, explores her relationships, including those with her two husbands and daughter, and investigates the many mysteries still surrounding Christie's life, most notably, her eleven-day disappearance in 1926.Agatha Christie is as mysterious as the stories she penned, and writing about her is a detection job in itself. With unprecedented access to all of Christie's letters, papers, and notebooks, as well as fresh and insightful interviews with her grandson, daughter, son-in-law and their living relations, Thompson is able to unravel not only the detailed workings of Christie's detective fiction, but the truth behind this mysterious woman.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681777118
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
It has been one hundred years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. A brilliant and award winning biographer, Laura Thompson now turns her sharp eye to Agatha Christie. Arguably the greatest crime writer in the world, Christie's books still sell over four million copies each year—more than thirty years after her death—and it shows no signs of slowing.But who was the woman behind these mystifying, yet eternally pleasing, puzzlers? Thompson reveals the Edwardian world in which Christie grew up, explores her relationships, including those with her two husbands and daughter, and investigates the many mysteries still surrounding Christie's life, most notably, her eleven-day disappearance in 1926.Agatha Christie is as mysterious as the stories she penned, and writing about her is a detection job in itself. With unprecedented access to all of Christie's letters, papers, and notebooks, as well as fresh and insightful interviews with her grandson, daughter, son-in-law and their living relations, Thompson is able to unravel not only the detailed workings of Christie's detective fiction, but the truth behind this mysterious woman.
Agatha Christie
Author: Lucy Worsley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1639362533
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural historian Lucy Worsley. "Nobody in the world was more inadequate to act the heroine than I was." Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was “just” an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn’t? Her life is fascinating for its mysteries and its passions and, as Lucy Worsley says, "She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern." She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating mental illness. So why—despite all the evidence to the contrary—did Agatha present herself as a retiring Edwardian lady of leisure? She was born in 1890 into a world that had its own rules about what women could and couldn’t do. Lucy Worsley’s biography is not just of a massively, internationally successful writer. It's also the story of a person who, despite the obstacles of class and gender, became an astonishingly successful working woman. With access to personal letters and papers that have rarely been seen, Lucy Worsley’s biography is both authoritative and entertaining and makes us realize what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was—truly a woman who wrote the twentieth century.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1639362533
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural historian Lucy Worsley. "Nobody in the world was more inadequate to act the heroine than I was." Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was “just” an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn’t? Her life is fascinating for its mysteries and its passions and, as Lucy Worsley says, "She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern." She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating mental illness. So why—despite all the evidence to the contrary—did Agatha present herself as a retiring Edwardian lady of leisure? She was born in 1890 into a world that had its own rules about what women could and couldn’t do. Lucy Worsley’s biography is not just of a massively, internationally successful writer. It's also the story of a person who, despite the obstacles of class and gender, became an astonishingly successful working woman. With access to personal letters and papers that have rarely been seen, Lucy Worsley’s biography is both authoritative and entertaining and makes us realize what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was—truly a woman who wrote the twentieth century.
Agatha Christie
Author: Janet Morgan
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780008243951
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Janet Morgan's definitive and authorised biography of Agatha Christie, with a new retrospective foreword by the author. Agatha Christie (1890-1976), the world's bestselling author, is a public institution. Her creations, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, have become fiction's most legendary sleuths and her ingenuity has captured the imagination of generations of readers. But although she lived to a great age and was prolific, she remained elusively shy and determinedly private. Given sole access to family papers and other protected material, Janet Morgan's definitive biography unravels Agatha Christie's life, work and relationships, creating a revealing and faithfully honest portrait. The book has delighted readers of Christie's detective stories for more than 30 years with its clear view of her career and personality, and this edition includes a new foreword by the author reflecting on the longevity of Agatha Christie's extraordinary success and popularity.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780008243951
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Janet Morgan's definitive and authorised biography of Agatha Christie, with a new retrospective foreword by the author. Agatha Christie (1890-1976), the world's bestselling author, is a public institution. Her creations, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, have become fiction's most legendary sleuths and her ingenuity has captured the imagination of generations of readers. But although she lived to a great age and was prolific, she remained elusively shy and determinedly private. Given sole access to family papers and other protected material, Janet Morgan's definitive biography unravels Agatha Christie's life, work and relationships, creating a revealing and faithfully honest portrait. The book has delighted readers of Christie's detective stories for more than 30 years with its clear view of her career and personality, and this edition includes a new foreword by the author reflecting on the longevity of Agatha Christie's extraordinary success and popularity.
Agatha
Author: Anne Martinetti
Publisher: SelfMadeHero
ISBN: 9781910593110
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In December 1926, renowned crime novelist Agatha Christie vanished, sending shockwaves through British society. As the authorities scoured the country for her, theories and suspicions abounded: it was murder, a hoax, suicide, a publicity stunt, revenge. When she was finally located - ten days later, living under an assumed name in a hotel in Harrogate - she returned to normal life, refusing to explain what had happened. Despite Christie's reputation for final act revelations, this episode of her life would be forever shrouded in mystery
Publisher: SelfMadeHero
ISBN: 9781910593110
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In December 1926, renowned crime novelist Agatha Christie vanished, sending shockwaves through British society. As the authorities scoured the country for her, theories and suspicions abounded: it was murder, a hoax, suicide, a publicity stunt, revenge. When she was finally located - ten days later, living under an assumed name in a hotel in Harrogate - she returned to normal life, refusing to explain what had happened. Despite Christie's reputation for final act revelations, this episode of her life would be forever shrouded in mystery
The Mystery of Agatha Christie
Author: Gwen Robyns
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The biography of the first lady of crime--Dame Agatha Christie.
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The biography of the first lady of crime--Dame Agatha Christie.
Agatha Christie
Author: Carol Dommermuth-Costa
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 9780822549543
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A biography of the English mystery writer who, after creating Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, became a Dame Commander of the British Empire.
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 9780822549543
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A biography of the English mystery writer who, after creating Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, became a Dame Commander of the British Empire.
The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie
Author: Charles Osborne
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
From the Back Cover: A Shy and retiring woman who began to write "in order to avoid having to talk to people," Agatha Christies produced her first detective novel at age twenty-six on a dare from her sister. She went on to author seventy-eight crime novels and short-story collections that have sold over two billion copies in more than 100 languages, making her the bestselling author of all time (Shakespeare is second). Published in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of her birth, The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie is a comprehensive, fully illustrated guide to the lifework of this remarkable woman and an in-depth portrait of the world in which she lived. In this insightful biography, acclaimed author Charles Osborne examines not only Christie's numerous murder mysteries and crime thrillers but also her plays, poetry, nonfiction, stories for children, the films based on her works, and the six semiautobiographical "romantic" novels that she wrote under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. Osborne also explores the creation of Christie's much loved sleuths-the egotistical and eccentric Hercule Poirot and the shrewd spinster Miss Jane Marple. From classics of detection like Murder on the Orient Express, Ten Little Indians, and her record-breaking play The Mousetrap to her mysterious 1926 "disappearance" and her life in the Middle East as an assistant to her archaeologist husband, this fascinating and authoritative biography reveals the life and work of the woman who ushered in the golden age of crime fiction and who remains the world's most popular mystery writer.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
From the Back Cover: A Shy and retiring woman who began to write "in order to avoid having to talk to people," Agatha Christies produced her first detective novel at age twenty-six on a dare from her sister. She went on to author seventy-eight crime novels and short-story collections that have sold over two billion copies in more than 100 languages, making her the bestselling author of all time (Shakespeare is second). Published in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of her birth, The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie is a comprehensive, fully illustrated guide to the lifework of this remarkable woman and an in-depth portrait of the world in which she lived. In this insightful biography, acclaimed author Charles Osborne examines not only Christie's numerous murder mysteries and crime thrillers but also her plays, poetry, nonfiction, stories for children, the films based on her works, and the six semiautobiographical "romantic" novels that she wrote under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. Osborne also explores the creation of Christie's much loved sleuths-the egotistical and eccentric Hercule Poirot and the shrewd spinster Miss Jane Marple. From classics of detection like Murder on the Orient Express, Ten Little Indians, and her record-breaking play The Mousetrap to her mysterious 1926 "disappearance" and her life in the Middle East as an assistant to her archaeologist husband, this fascinating and authoritative biography reveals the life and work of the woman who ushered in the golden age of crime fiction and who remains the world's most popular mystery writer.
Agatha Christie
Author: Hourly History
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Discover the remarkable life of Agatha Christie...Agatha Christie, born in upper-middle-class British society during the late Victorian era, turned into one of the most prolific and popular mystery writers of all time. Her novels have been translated into forty-four languages and have sold over two billion copies worldwide. Her mysteries continue to sell as new generations of readers discover the delights of her main characters, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. In addition, Christie's plays have been a tremendous success, with The Mousetrap running in London for the past 70 years. This is the story of the best-selling fiction writer of all time-Dame Agatha Christie. Discover a plethora of topics such as An Enchanted Childhood Agatha Meets Archie Christie The Loss of Her Mother and Husband Christie's Mysterious Disappearance Murder Most Foul: Enter Miss Marple Final Years and Death And much more! So if you want a concise and informative book on Agatha Christie, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Discover the remarkable life of Agatha Christie...Agatha Christie, born in upper-middle-class British society during the late Victorian era, turned into one of the most prolific and popular mystery writers of all time. Her novels have been translated into forty-four languages and have sold over two billion copies worldwide. Her mysteries continue to sell as new generations of readers discover the delights of her main characters, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. In addition, Christie's plays have been a tremendous success, with The Mousetrap running in London for the past 70 years. This is the story of the best-selling fiction writer of all time-Dame Agatha Christie. Discover a plethora of topics such as An Enchanted Childhood Agatha Meets Archie Christie The Loss of Her Mother and Husband Christie's Mysterious Disappearance Murder Most Foul: Enter Miss Marple Final Years and Death And much more! So if you want a concise and informative book on Agatha Christie, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!