Agatha Christie, the Queen of Crime, is the best-selling author of all time. She has sold over two billion books worldwide and has been translated into over 45 languages. In a writing career that spanned more than half a century, Agatha Christie wrote eighty novels and short story collections. (For comprehensive data click wikipedia.)
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Murder on the Orient Express, or Death on the Nile .
With such a vast bibliography, Agatha Christie has become synonymous throughout the world with England. Her quintessential “English” characters offer a charming view of a bygone era when people sat down to tea in the afternoon and tended roses in their gardens. The richness of the settings in Christie’s novels add to the great enjoyment when reading her novels and she drew on real places when writing her stories.
Teachers can always find something more and if you are a librarian make sure you check out this : there are tips for reading groups, for a session on the history and development of crime fiction, quizzes on the author... DO read it for inspiration!
Here are a couple of related resources that might be of interest to you:
http://www.answers.com/topic/agatha-christie-large-image
http://www.agathachristie.com/about-christie/the-queen-of-crime/An-Autobiography-2010/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/sep/15/agatha-christie-google-doodle
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/8003559/Agatha-Christie-120th-birthday-anniversary-celebrated-by-Google-Doodle.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/content/articles/2006/09/20/agatha_christie_profile_feature.shtml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/devon/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8988000/8988240.stm
http://www.englishriviera.co.uk/agathachristie/festival
6 comments:
Agatha Christie...so old and so new...always.
Sharing this with your students is very interesting indeed.
Have a very noce school year.
Cláudia Mota
well, Agatha is one of our characters in our Culture Olympics, a sort of "game" we play with the students (aged between 11 and 13) to encourage them to study and to get good marks, they perform different characters (in a sort of role-play)and Miss Christie is of them; at the end of the year they receive medals, exactly as in the Olympics, and you cannot imagine the success this new strategy has!!
Nice idea - Olympics at school with medals and all!!!
Thanks for sharing :)
Hi Alex,
life's too short for so much information!
I'm a huge fan of Agatha Christie. In my teen years I read endlessly this master crime writer.No one compares!
I have a colection of her books and now and then I look upon my bookshelf sadly because I haven't had time lately to read just for fun.
My favourite books are The Death of Roger Ackroyd, And there there were none and Death on the Nile. People cant just miss them. I strongly recommend Agatha to those who don't know her yet.
Have merry and scary readings!!!
Ana Paula Amaro
I have always enjoyed reading Agatha Christie, too. As a teacher I've already had the privilege of preparing two of her masterpieces as well as seeing "And then there were none" on stage in Norwich. It was amazing!
Well, here I am, again.
I don´t have much to say about Agatha Christi. I just love wall the books\ films, the mystery of the crimes. They pass 120 years but the story’s still interesting.
Good work, a date we mustn’t forget.
Kiss
Lurdes
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