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A brief guide to Agatha Christie
This brief guide explores Christie's life and work from her first novel, The mysterious affair at the Styles, to her last, Sleeping murder.
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Agatha Christie and Gothic Horror
Agatha Christie's work has been adapted extensively resulting in transformations that are both textual and cultural. While many adaptations are best known for being quaint murder mysteries, there are many adaptations of her work that draw on horror aesthetics. This book will look at how the growth of Agatha Christie adaptations have grown increasingly darker. Of key relevance to this study is the work of Sarah Phelps, whose Witness for the Prosecution, And Then There Were None, Ordeal by Innocence, The ABC Murders and The Pale Horse all are darker than their precedents. Born out of their contemporary screen contexts, they use entrenched literary and filmic codes of Gothic horror as central reference points for audiences. Drawing on adaptation scholarship, where adapters are interpreters as well as creators, this study will look at how Agatha Christie is closer to Gothic horror than what we realise. * Analysis of Agatha Christie adaptations and the horror genre. * First major monograph to explore Sarah Phelps work on Agatha Christie. * Explores the transcultural adaptations of Agatha Christie.
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Agatha Christie on screen
This book is a comprehensive exploration of 90 years of film and television adaptations of the world's best-selling novelist's work.Drawing on extensive archival material, it offers new information regarding both the well-known and forgotten screen adaptations of Agatha Christie's stories, including unmade and rare adaptations, some of which have.
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أغاثا كريستي
«أطفال بأحلام كبيرة»، السلسلة الأكثر رواجا بين كتب الأطفال، تتناول سيرة حياة أشخاص مميزين، من مصممي أزياء وفنانين وعلماء ومناضلين، كلهم حققوا إنجازات عظيمة حلم بها يوما طفل صغير. في هذا الكتاب نتعرف إلى أغاثا كريستي (1890-1967)، وهي روائية بريطانية صاحبة الكتب الأكثر مبيعا في العالم، وقد ترجمت إلى ما يزيد عن مئة لغة. تعتبر روايتها «ثم لم يبق أحد» (And Then There Were None) إحدى الكتب العشرة الأكثر قراءة في التاريخ. استطاعت أغاثا أن تتحدى عقول ملايين القراء بفضل شخصيّاتها الغريبة، وألغازها الغامضة، ورواياتها المليئة بالمنعطفات والتحولات في سير الأحداث، فتوجت ملكة الروايات البوليسية.
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Queering Agatha Christie : revisiting the golden age of detective fiction
This book is the first fully theorized queer reading of a Golden Age British crime writer. Agatha Christie was the most commercially successful novelist of the twentieth century, and her fiction remains popular. She created such memorable characters as Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple, and has become synonymous with a nostalgic, conservative tradition of crime fiction. J.C. Bernthal reads Christie through the lens of queer theory, uncovering a playful, alert, and subversive social commentary. After considering Christie's emergence in a commercial market hostile to her sex, in Queering Agatha Christie Bernthal explores homophobic stereotypes, gender performativity, queer children, and masquerade in key texts published between 1920 and 1952. Christie engaged with debates around human identity in a unique historical period affected by two world wars. The final chapter considers twenty-first century Poirot and Marple adaptations, with visible LGBT characters, and poses the question: might the books be queerer?
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Agatha Christie : a very short introduction
Agatha Christie is the author of over 80 books and the world's longest running play. This book explores this extraordinary success by considering the curious alchemy of her straightforward style and her convoluted plotting, and examines the construction of her most popular serial characters.
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The Mystery of Agatha Christie with David Suchet
David Suchet, TV’s Poirot, has spent more of his life acting out the plots and dramas created by Agatha Christie than anyone else in the world. Suchet is embarking on a journey to learn more about the woman who created Poirot and whose books remain outsold only by Shakespeare and the Bible. Suchet’s journey takes him to the places Christie lived, the landscapes that inspired her and to meetings with people who knew the woman behind the fame and those inspired by her extraordinary legacy. He explores the close links between Christie’s extraordinary life and her work and discovers what it was about the woman from a small seaside town that allowed her to become the best-selling murder mystery writer in history.
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مذكرات مالون : عالم الآثار وزوج أجاثا كريستي
أنت تقرأ روايتها وألغازها وتتخيل كيف كانت هذه السيدة تكتب هذه الأحداث وتتخيلها وتتمنى لو كنت قابلتها لتسألها أو حتى شاهدتها وهي تكتب ولكن هذا الرجل صاحبها في كل أحداث حياتها وشاهدها وهي تكتب (مقتل روجر أكرويد) و(جزيرة الموت) و(الستارة) وغيرها من الألغاز، وقرأ خطابت المعجبين ووقف معها وهي تحصد الجوائز وهو أيضا لم يكن شخصا مغمورا بل هو عالم آثار ناجح ومشهور ولقد صاحبته هي في أغلب رحلاته إلى مصر وسوريا والعراق وكتبت ألغازها عن بلاد الشرق حين تأثرت برحلاتها معه.
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Agatha Christie : power and illusion
This study shows how she sought to reconcile her attachment to the Victorian past with her recognition of a new society that undermined established order and in doing so gave more opportunities to women, confused class-boundaries, extended tolerance, allowed the cult of pleasure and self-assertion and revealed the ambiguities of respectability.
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