Everything You Wanted to Know About Agatha Christie

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@AbiofPellinor 5 ай бұрын

I love that her entire career was kickstarted from wanting to prove her sister wrong!!

@ddiazmoron 5 ай бұрын

How interesting that a mystery writer has a mystery of her own. I still want to know that happen in those 11 days!!!

@DrawntoBooks 5 ай бұрын

Right?! She even checked in with a fake name, and it was the last name of her husband's mistress.

@ddiazmoron 5 ай бұрын

@@DrawntoBooks i mean, this screams “I had a bigger plan” i mean, what was her main goal?

@no_where_land9947 10 күн бұрын

The Doctor came and took her away after a giant wasp attacked her

@missjoshemmett 9 күн бұрын

Second video of yours in the past half hour. I find you interesting. I subscribed. I am 79 and started reading at 3. I'm not stopping even if I lose my sight. I love books on audio, too. Hi!

@OxfordCommaEducation 4 ай бұрын

Another excellent video! Seeing The Mouse Trap was one of my favorite parts of visiting London. The play has been performed for so long that one of the elderly actors in this particular production had played the young lead 40 years earlier in the same theatre.

@aamano7439 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for putting the spoiler warnings (even if they're minor spoilers!), I really appreciate them and now I want to read her novels. Great video!

@DrawntoBooks 5 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@benellison6232 2 ай бұрын

Love your content. Every time a video pops up i know i am going to learn something new about literature/books/history. No pressure to return for videos. Just wanted to send encouragement your way!

@melissaoverland692 3 ай бұрын

Exceptional!!! Love me some Agatha! 👍✌️❤️😊

@Zach27182 5 ай бұрын

It’s incredible how wide her reach was. Only Shakespeare has had more copies of his work sold!

@villy9945 5 ай бұрын

A great video!! So informative

@DrawntoBooks 5 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@X.R.Balzan 3 ай бұрын

I still have a copy of "And Then There Where None" with the original title.

@robertthomson1587 5 ай бұрын

Great video, thanks. One minor correction: Dames are styled Dame First Name Last Name. So she was Dame Agatha Christie, not Dame Christie.

@joelharris4399 5 ай бұрын

I am struck by the underlying randomness of the world. Charles Darwin's Cambridge mentor J.S. Henslow was supposed to be on the HMS Beagle, but his wife objected to him going on a far-away trip for many years, so he sent his pupil instead on the expedition. And the rest was history! Agatha Christie on a bet became one of the world's most recognizable writers. Tell me, where is determinism, pre-destination in all of this?

@Itachi45481 2 ай бұрын

Wow didn’t expect archaeological work and surfing

@wildaceds 4 ай бұрын

Can you review Sherlock Holmes books?

@Gelo-아이리스 4 ай бұрын

Do you have goodreads account?

@Seriousreyn 3 ай бұрын

Hercule Poirot being based on a real belgian gendarme and being wetten so wonderfully autistic. One of the best characters in literature

@gorequillnachovidal 5 ай бұрын

they should never change an author's words in their book without their permission.

@toshirodragon 5 ай бұрын

Archie Christie was not a nice man... and many people have wondered if she tried to frame him for murder and either couldn't follow through or messed up which led her to being discovered. Whatever reason she had for being at that spa is something she took to her grave.

@jamescrouch1693 4 ай бұрын

@@toshirodragon It seemed to me that the outcome of her episode was that it brought national attention to her husband's bad character. A tricky move we might say.

@toshirodragon 4 ай бұрын

@@jamescrouch1693 Especially at that time, when women were nearly owerless, politically and financially.

@boredgrass 26 күн бұрын

A wonderful bio, however Agatha Christie's most famous detective is of cause Mrs Marple, though we should feel obliged to recognise this..., what was it? French? Canadien?or Algerian? gentleman who's attempts at a crime solving we shouldn't totally discount!

@bigbossvi429 5 ай бұрын

Ten little, Huh?!

@amandalynch9567 4 ай бұрын

In high school, 30 years ago, the version I read was called "Ten Little Indians."

@jamescrouch1693 4 ай бұрын

@@amandalynch9567 That's what the copy I got from the library read.

@TheSouthIsHot 4 ай бұрын

I read Absent in the Spring this summer. I hated it!!!

@jamescrouch1693 5 ай бұрын

Five Little Pigs, thanks for your Christie.

@DrawntoBooks 5 ай бұрын

Yes, people love that one! I haven't read that one yet :)

@TF-lk6co 5 ай бұрын

Retroactively changing the title of a book is one thing, but altering the content within a book...no.

@jubas-kx4hz 5 ай бұрын

I agree... it was part of the author's work and creation, reflecting the ethos and the society then. If people start altering original books and other works to fit modern ethics, you sorta put make up on the past, create distortions and mislead people. One thing is creators rewriting or modernizing their songs, books and what not; but altering them after they die, when there's no chance of them having a say? I don't think it's just disrespectful, it should be illegal. For me it feels like brushing over a part of an old painting because it may be considered offensive.

@toshirodragon 5 ай бұрын

I agree, it won't hurt anyone to wince at out dated attitudes and it helps to keep those attitudes from coming back.

@DrawntoBooks 5 ай бұрын

I understand what the publishers are trying to do, but there has to be a better way. I feel like they could add footnotes or something when terms come up that are offensive, explaining why they are no longer used in society or something similar. It's an opportunity for education for the reader that is being missed by editing the work.