Презентация на тему Выдающиеся женщины ХХ века: Агата Кристи

15, 1890 in Torquay, Devon, in the South West

England to the family of well to do American migrants Frederick Alvah Miller and Clara Boehmer. She was the third child in the family.

to play the mandolin and piano at home. Her

happy childhood was finished with the father’s death – the sad demise leaded the family to financial crisis.

a hospital as a nurse. Later on she got

a job in a pharmacy. This influenced many of her crime stories because some of her victims were poisoned.

Archibald Christie. In 1919 their daughter Rosalind was born.

In 1926 Agatha Christie’s mother died, in the end of the same year her husband disclosed his affair with another woman. After a quarrel with her husband Agatha disappeared for eleven days. She was discovered at the Swan Hydropatic Hotel in Yorkshire. It is said that writer experienced a nervous breakdown.

1930 Christie’s married her second husband — archeologist Max

Mallowan. Though their family didn’t have children in common, that marriage was happier for famous writer.

to Archibald Christie. The first published detective story was

‘The Mysterious Affair at Styles’ (1920). In this novel readers got to know the character of Hercule Poirot. The writer created over 40 novels featuring Hercule Poirot, the readers liked him very much, but Christie had not great love for her own creation. She created another great detective — Miss Marple, which she liked much more.

as the Queen of Crime. She wrote 78 detective

novels, 19 plays, and 6 romantic novels. Her books have been translated into 103 foreign languages. They are the third best-selling books in the world (after Shakespeare's works and the Bible). Many of her novels and short stories have been filmed. The Mousetrap, her most famous play, is now the longest-running play in history of world theatre.

in her ability to combine clever plots with excellent

character drawing* and a keen sense of humour with a great observation. Her plots always mislead the reader and keep him in suspense. He cannot guess who the criminal is. Fortunately, evil is always conquered in her novels.
Agatha Christie's language is simple and good and it is pleasant to read her books in the original.

Mysterious Affair at Styles’ was rejected by six publishers

before it was published.
For her first story Agatha received 25 pounds.
The books of Christie were adapted 27 times into films.
Agatha Christie wrote not only detective stories but also romances, she published them under the name Mary Westmacott.