Author: Agatha Christie
Narrator: Hugh Fraser
Unabridged: 4 hr 17 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 07/03/2012
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Traditional British, Historical Fiction, Short Stories
What a daunting task to write about the most famous mystery writer, Agatha Christie. She was born in 1890 in England, where she was home schooled by her American father. It was an unusual way to be educated for the times. Her father did not want her to begin learning to read until age eight, but out of boredom, she taught herself to read by age five.
In his research, Curran found a plethora of information about Agatha. He outlines many of those interesting facts. Since there are so many, just a few will be mentioned here. Agatha could have been an excellent performer as a pianist, but she was much too shy to perform. She once had three plays running simultaneously in London. She traveled around the world in 1922, which would have been quite a feat back then. Agatha loved dogs. She has a rose named after her. She never did drink alcohol nor smoked. Her last public appearance was in 1974, at the premier of the movie, Murder on the Orient Express. Agatha Christie's name has appeared every day for 53 years in every newspaper with a West End London theatre listing. Her favorite flower was Lily of the Valley. The information about this illustrious author goes on and on. It is a great asset to readers that author John Curran wrote the definitive book about an iconic author. One other interesting fact was that Agatha met Archie Christie in 1912, married on Christmas Eve 1914, spending their honeymoon at The Grand Hotel in Torquay, but Archie returned to France on Dec 27th due to the War. Agatha and Archie fid not really experience married life until he was posted at the London War Office. Agatha has been quoted as saying only then did she feel that her married life truly began.
This book is a lie. Call me old fashioned, but usually, you would be correct in assuming that when an author's name is splayed out over the front cover, that said author wrote this book, right? Well obviously not. I picked up this book with the naive assumption that Agatha Christie, Hailed Queen of......more
Ok, so this is a novelization of one of Christie's plays. Sometimes those work out, sometimes they don't. Personally, I thought this translated pretty well into a decent read. Or in my case, a decent listen. Everything takes place in the home of the diplomat Henry Brown & his wife, Clarissa. The setup......more
Libro entretenido que es una novelización de Charles Osborne de una obra de teatro de A. Christie. El libro se situa en una mansión o casa de campo donde una mujer joven, Clarissa, con una gran imaginación para crear historias para su uso y disfrute, (poniendo muchas veces en un compromiso a sus amis......more
Bicu lenj pa cu samo copy/paste opis za drugu knjizicu :P Lenj sam. "Pozorisna predtava Agate Kristi pretocena u roman od strane Carlsa Ozborna. Vidim da ima puno zalbi da se knige na cita kao da je pislala Agata, da nije dovoljno dobra itd. E sada moguce da je do prevoda ali meni licno nista nije bol......more
