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Quotations
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Agatha Christie Quotes
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Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie ( 1890-09-15 – 1976-01-12 ) was an English author of detective fiction. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) 1.2 Peril at End House (1932) 1.3 Murder on the Orient Express (1934) 1.4 Murder...


Biography

Name: Agatha Christie
Birth Date: September 15, 1890
Death Date: January 12, 1976
Place of Birth: Torquay, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Female
Occupations: author, playwright

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Biography of Agatha Christie
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Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was the best selling mystery author of all time and the only writer to have created two major detectives, Poirot and Marple. She also wrote the longest-running play in the modern theater, The Mousetrap. The daughter of an...
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Biography of Agatha Christie
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Agatha Christie is a towering figure in the history of crime literature for two reasons. First, she consolidated the form of the pure mystery novel, achieving in five or six of her books puzzle stories that set a standard unlikely ever to be decisively...
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Biography of Agatha (Mary Clarissa) Christie
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Agatha Christie, crime novelist, playwright, poet, travel and short-story writer, has sold more than one billion copies of her books since 1920 and been translated into more languages than William Shakespeare, second only to the Bible. She also wrote...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Christie, Agatha (1890-1979) Summary
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Deemed the creator of the modern detective fiction novel and nicknamed the Duchess of Death, Agatha Christie continues to be one of the most popularly read authors since the publication of her first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1920....
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Agatha Christie Information
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Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, DBE (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), commonly known as Agatha Christie, was an English crime fiction writer. She also wrote romance novels under the name Mary Westmacott, but is best remembered for...


News and Journals
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The Washington Post
Call in Agatha Christie
09/29/1994: 488 words, approx. 2 pages
IT WAS NEVER going to be easy to get incumbent members of Congress to alter a system of paying for political campaigns under which they, after all, had done rather well. But only Luigi Pirandello or Samuel Beckett could have conceived a script as...
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The Boston Globe
Solving The Mysteries Of Agatha Christie
09/15/1990: 1,844 words, approx. 6 pages
Agatha Christie has won enormous fame but little respect. This is the major theme of Gillian Gill's new biography, "Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries." "I originally had no intention of writing a biography of Christie," said Gill, 48, a specialist...
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Reuters North American News Service
RPT-Reuters historical calendar - November 25
11/19/2007: 265 words, approx. 1 pages
Nov 18 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Nov. 25 since 1900: 1952 - Agatha Christie's play "The Mousetrap" opened in London. Still playing to audiences today, it holds the record for the longest continuous run of...
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greatreporter.com
The Everyman: A DustinHoffman Quiz
10/8/2007: 265 words, approx. 1 pages
Question 1 of 10:Banned for years, which 1971 film saw Hoffman play a berserk, gun-toting American in rural England? Straw Dogs Midnight Cowboy Billy Bathgate American Buffalo Question 2 of 10: Hoffman was offered the role of Rambo! True FalseQuestion 3 of 10: Hoffman...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Nicholas Birns and Margaret Boe Birns
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In the following essay, the reviewers argue that Christie's writing is more complex than critics credit her.
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Critical Essay by David I. Grossvogel
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In the following essay, Grossvogel explores why Christie's works remain popular today.
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Critical Essay by Earl F. Bargainnier
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In the following essay, Bargainnier analyzes Christie's collection of poetry, discussing what her poems reveal about her personality.
 


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