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In this sensitive and revealing biography of Agatha Christie, Gillian Gill probes the mysterious private life and motivations of one of the bestselling authors of all time.
Agatha Christy is very famous detective writer in all over the world. She loved trip over the world and the places in her stories were her traveling place. She had written many stories, but her writing stories were not accepted by puplish companies at first..
I enjoyed this story. I want to know how to decide each story's plots. Where did the idea come from? I haven't read her detective story yet, but after reading this book I decided to read her detective story. ( )
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For My Mother Esme Scobie and in Memory of My Grandmother Mabel Croft
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Preface: Writing tends to be a lonely business, but not when you are writing about Agatha Christie.
Introduction: The cultural legacy of Agatha Christie, the originality and brilliance of her craft, the importance of her message, as well as the meaning of her life, are subtly undervalued.
Chapter 1: The story of Agatha Christie begins at Ashfield, the house where she was born - a large Italian-style stucco villa on the outskirts of Torquay, an English seaside town in Devon.
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"I don't know anything about him," says the engmatic Isabella of her lover John Gabriel just before her death. In a scene later in The Rose and the Yew Tree, Teresa, while assuring Hugh Norreys that he is not responsible for Isabella's death, says to him, "You loved her enough to leave her alone." These two bald statements are emblematic of Agatha Christie's strange yet compelling vision of life. A woman of strong views, a woman convinced that there are eternal values and verities, Christie was yet singularly free of evangelical zeal and didactic purpose. If she had a message, it was that each person should and must make choices for himself or herself and should impinge as little as possible on the choices of others. In the words of Thomas á Kempis, "You are not required to answer for others but you will have to give an account of your own life." Humility, tolerance, and acceptance are for Christie the essential virtues. She reserved her condemnation not for the sinners of the flesh, but for those who see themselves as more than other men, who use their talent to bind others to their will and their strength to kill and maim. (Afterword, p. [208], The Free Press. 1990)
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It is perhaps not by chance that, as Agatha Christie grew older and more reflective of the lessons of two world wars, she increasingly chose not Hercule Poirot, not some official representative of the law, but her women detectives, Jane Marple and Ariadne Oliver, to embody the values she wished to protect.
In this sensitive and revealing biography of Agatha Christie, Gillian Gill probes the mysterious private life and motivations of one of the bestselling authors of all time.
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I enjoyed this story. I want to know how to decide each story's plots. Where did the idea come from?
I haven't read her detective story yet, but after reading this book I decided to read her detective story. (