I've just been drooling over the above...
Just £599.00 on ebay.
Comparing Agatha Christie's output to Enid's makes you realise just how prolific Enid really was!
" A kind heart always brings its own reward," said Mrs. Lee.
- The Christmas Tree Aeroplane - Society Member
We are pleased to tell you that we will be launching a new look Agatha Christie website in the next couple of days. This website will replace the current http://www.agathachristie.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; site.
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Just checked out a VHS tape of Evil Under the Sun from the library. I'm finally done with finals, so I will destress by watching some Poirot!
Agatha Christie was frequently mentioned this semester in one of my classes. There are many causes for the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, and no one has been able to identify a single cause. The most likely explanation is that ALL of them together caused it. It is called the Murder on the Orient Express Hypothesis. My professor apparently can't say the joke any more because no American in this day and age reads Christie but thankfully I'm not American!
pete9012S wrote:
Lets hope they've listened to Nigel's suggestions!
They didn't! It doesn't seem any different from before. No 'view new posts' still, which to me is essential. There is a recent discussions section, I have had a look, but I am afraid I won't be bothering with it.
Mildly irritated to read the Guardian's high priestess Polly Toynbee's view that "Christie's books are 'suffused with a peculiar English snobbery' and 'firmly set among the middle classes, on the uncomfortable presumption, perhaps, that the lower classes are too boring to write books about, or that crime among them is too common to merit attention' " - no British writer has ever enjoyed such universal appeal, and continues to sell books in almost every country on Earth!
Clever-clogs critics who sneer at Agatha Christie make me murderous: DOMINIC SANDBROOK explains why the author's thrillers are always worth a read..
But as anyone who has watched the BBC's brilliant adaptation of Christie's best-selling book, And Then There Were None, will know, the charge that she is a bad writer, or even a snobbish one, is wrong.
It is simply not true that her books are extended apologias for the upper classes. Her aristocrats are usually faintly ridiculous, and some of her conservative business tycoons turn out to be murderers.
In And Then There Were None, some characters are snobs. But their prejudice is met with the ultimate penalty: a memorably gory death.
And who, reading the novel on which the riveting TV version is based, could possibly think Christie is a bad writer?
It is hard to think of any author who has been so successful for so long while inspiring such contempt. In 1944, the American critic Edmund Wilson claimed that her prose was 'of a mawkishness and banality that seems to be almost literally impossible to read'.
Enid Blyton???
" A kind heart always brings its own reward," said Mrs. Lee.
- The Christmas Tree Aeroplane - Society Member
Here's a nice article from the Guardian about Agatha Christie by John Curran.
He picks his personal ten best Christie's...
John Curran, a lifelong Christie fan, lives in Dublin. For many years he edited the official Agatha Christie Newsletter and acted as a consultant to the National Trust during the restoration of Greenway House, Dame Agatha's Devon home. His first book, Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks, which explores the contents of 73 hitherto unseen journals, has just been published.
"Agatha Christie was the greatest exponent of the classical detective story. Her unique literary talents have crossed every boundary of age, race, class, geography and education. While she refined the template for a fictional form, the reading of her books became an international pastime. As we celebrate her 120th birthday these are my highlights of her literary career."
