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Christy is a historical fiction Christian novel by American author Catherine Marshall, set in the fictional Appalachian village of Cutter Gap, Tennessee, in 1912.The novel was inspired by the work of Marshall's mother, Leonora Whitaker, who taught impoverished children in the Appalachian region when she was a young, single woman.
Come, Tell Me How You Live is a short book of autobiography and travel literature by crime writer Agatha Christie.It is one of only two books she wrote and had published under both of her married names of "Christie" and "Mallowan" (the other being Star Over Bethlehem and other stories) and was first published in the UK in November 1946 by William Collins and Sons and in the same year in the US ...
According to The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English, this novel is one of the "execrable last novels" in which Christie purportedly "loses her grip altogether". [7] A Canadian study which compared the texts of a number of Christie novels indicated that her later works, including Postern of Fate, showed a 15 to 30% decrease in vocabulary.
Agatha Christie as a girl, date unknown. Many of Christie's stories first appeared in journals, newspapers and magazines. [19] This list consists of the published collections of stories, in chronological order by UK publication date, even when the book was published first in the US or serialised in a magazine in advance of publication in book form.
In 2013, the Christie estate authorised author Sophie Hannah to write a new Poirot book, [1] The Monogram Murders (2014). She later also wrote Closed Casket (2016), The Mystery of Three Quarters (2018), The Killings at Kingfisher Hill (2020) and Hercule Poirot's Silent Night (2023).
Christie's use of her thriller to expound a number of her own rather odd political opinions." [9] Robert Barnard wrote "It is usually said that Christie drags herself into the modern world in the 'fifties, but the books in the late 'thirties show her dipping a not-too-confident toe into the ideological conflicts of the pre-war years. Here we ...
Most politically charged item. Rest in peace, Adidas Sambas. Time of death: April 4, 2024 — coincidentally the same time former Britain’s then-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak donned a pair for a ...
Work: A Story of Experience, originally serialized and first published in book form in 1873, is a semi-autobiographical novel by Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women. It is set in the times before and after the American Civil War. The protagonist, Christie Devon, leaves her home to make a living on her own.