Доклад: Agatha Christie
Доклад: Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie was sure the world’s best selling
crime writer. Moreover, she
was an immensely prolific writer. 79 shot stories, 4 non-fiction ones and 19
plays were written by that strange woman. They were translated into 136
languages. Over 3 billion books by Agatha Christie were sold worldwide. She is
popular for ingenuity of plots, which are classical murder mysteries: marooned
places and a well-mannered murderer. Her way to present the stories was quite
definite from that of her colleagues. At first her stories appealed to the
readers’ detective inside, so you can’t find much blood and violence in her
stories.
Agatha Christie
created two major characters for her stories. Hercule Poirot, a Belgian, used
to work in the Police, but by the time of the action he was already retired. He
can be described as a funny little man taken by many readers as a comic. He had
luxurious moustaches and he was really proud of them.
Miss Marple was absolutely opposite to Poirot. She
wasn’t a professional and had never been one. She was just an old spinster,
very modest but perceptive and not a flamboyant personality, who acted as a detective
just by virtue of taking thought.
Agatha Christie’s favourite way of murdering was by
poisoning. She accurately described the process because she had learned a lot
about poisons and other chemicals during World War II, while working in a
hospital.
The reader has to solve the mystery and decide who the
murderer is hand-in-hand with the author. Most of the crimes were committed in
some closed surroundings with a limited number of people to suspect. Finally
the identity of the murderer is revealed and a hooked reader starts looking for
another book by Agatha Christie.
Agatha Christie lived between 1890 and 1976. She
started writing stories at a very early age, at first to entertain herself.
However, she managed to become famous. Not many people know that she used to
write under a pen-name of Mary Westmacott. Later, already being a world-known
writer, she tried to avoid publicity and stayed out of public eye.
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