This dissertation assesses Christie's unconscious, intuitive feminism by analyzing subtle feminist elements in her life and work. The most frequent charge, besides that of overt sexism in the works, is that Christie herself is “not a feminist.” Many women readers, however, look to both Christie and her female detectives as empowering yet compassionate role models. Although Christie is now being studied as a serious artist and modernist, she and her female detectives continue to be attacked, ignored, or depreciated by various feminist critics. Though she kept her private life a mystery, for some years Agatha had secretly written her autobiography, and when it was published after her death, millions of her fans agreed - this was her best story! Enjoy free online English audiobook “An Autobiography”, a breathtaking novel by Agatha Christie.Roberta S Klein, University of Pennsylvaniaįor years, best-selling mystery writer Agatha Christie (1890–1976) was dismissed as a prolific hack without literary merit. When Agatha Christie died on 12 January 1976, she was known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime, unrivalled as the best-selling novelist of all time with two billion books sold in more than 100 languages. She lived life happily and in return is known as the best selling author, who has travelled the world, experienced a dig, and grew up through the two world wars. Agatha Christy had an amazing life and was an amazing woman. Much of the charm of her work derives from its use of the novel-of-manners tradition, as she explores upper-middle-class life in the English village, a milieu that she made peculiarly her own. Working within these conventions, Christie explored their limits through numerous variations to create her intellectual puzzles.

In the end, all but one of the suspects are eliminated, and the criminal dies or is arrested.

Through some seventy mystery novels and thrillers as well as 149 short stories and more than a dozen plays, Agatha Christie helped create the form of classic detective fiction, in which a murder is committed and many are suspected. Reading Agatha Christie’s autobiography is like sitting down to tea with an especially chatty, good-natured person.

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