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In an all-new edition, an engaging and illuminating chronicle of the life of the Queen of Mystery, complete with a bonus CD featuring the voice of the grande dame herself
Agatha Christie was a woman of mystery, in every sense of the word. Her novels made her the worlds best-selling author, but her private life was hidden from view. For many years she dodged reporters and gave no interviews, and for a brief time she famously disappeared. She started writing her autobiography in April 1950 and finished it fifteen years later, when she was seventy-five years old and decided it seems the right moment to stop.
In this book, which was originally published in 1977 in the United States by Dodd, Mead & Company, Agatha Christie sheds light on her past. She tells of her childhood in Victorian England, her volunteer work during World War II, her rise to success, her working habits, the inspiration for her most famous charactersHercule Poirot and Jane Marpleand the places and people that influenced her. After being out of print for several years, this book is being brought back in a new hardcover edition with a CD featuring excerpts dictated by Agatha Christie herself.
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“Joyful adventure….She brings the sense of wonder…to her extraordinary career.” New York Times Book Review
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“A wonderful bookwritten with a delight in the gradual unfolding of 75 years through the eyes of an exceptional old lady and writer.” Financial Times (London)
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“A delightful autobiography….Warm, witty and discerning.” Los Angeles Times
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“Wonderfully easy to read and engrossing.” The Times (London)
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“Agatha Christies most absorbing mystery the story of her own unusual life. She has put it all on record: her early romances; a broken (and a happy) marriage; strange events on the path to roaring success.” Daily Mail (London)
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“Agatha Christie is no longer merely one of my favorite writers. She is now one of my favorite people.” Chicago Tribune
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“Especially welcome.” < i=""> Publishers Weekly <>
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“Brisk and admirable….Capturing the experience of a generation too often made over-grim or over-glorious, it is the autobiography of a woman, not merely a writer.” < i=""> Los Angeles Times <>
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“Contains some wonderful treats....Christie writes with such wit and insight that all 542 pages fly.” < i=""> Cleveland Plain Dealer <>
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“A fun read, full of detail about upper-crust life in the Victorian era and about Christies own surprise at finding herself a mystery novelist.” < i=""> Charlotte News & Observer <>
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“The history of a unique upbringing in a time long gone. Its a portrait of a childhood and young womanhood that vanished with World War I.” < i=""> Pittsburgh Tribune-Review <>
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“Christie writes with a wonderful dry wit. It is fascinating to see how people she met became characters in her novels.” < i=""> Daily American <>
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“This book proves as inspiring as it is charming and absorbing.” < i=""> Boston Globe <>
Synopsis
Back in print in an all-new edition, is the engaging and illuminating chronicle of the life of the “Queen of Mystery.” Fans of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple and readers of John Currans fascinating biographies Agatha Christies Secret Notebooks and Murder in the Making will be spellbound by the compelling, authoritative account of one of the worlds most influential and fascinating novelists, told in her own words and inimitable style. The New York Times Book Review calls Christies autobiography a “joyful adventure,” saying, “she brings the sense of wonder...to her extraordinary career.”
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Millions of fans the world over got to know her beloved characters, Hercule Poirot, Miss Jane Marple, and the rest, yet for decades little was known about their creator. Dame Agatha Christie was a woman who scrupulously kept her private life hidden from view, dodging the press, granting no interviews, and even, for a brief time, famously disappearing. But shortly after the great lady's death, the silence was broken when
An Autobiography was finally published.
The witty, insightful, and immensely entertaining reflections of a marvelous talent, An Autobiography is as compulsively readable as Christie's novels. In her own inimitable style, a brilliant eccentric whose life encapsulated her times sheds light on her past, including her childhood in Victorian England, her volunteer work during World War II, and, of course, her phenomenal career. Agatha Christie's An Autobiography brings into sharp focus a beloved and enduring literary icon whose imagination continues to mesmerize readers to this very day.
About the Author
Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976.