Agatha Christie
a very short introduction
$28.06
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2025
Summary
The Enduring Appeal of Agatha Christie: A Very Short Introduction
Agatha Christie is a global phenomenon, a bestselling author whose works have been translated into over 100 languages and adapted for both stage and screen. Her writing career spanned from 1920 to the 1970s, encompassing not only intricate puzzles but also plays, supernatural tales, thrillers, satires, and domestic noir. Beyond the mysteries, Christie’s writing offers subtle yet insightful commentary on the social and…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198863748 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198863748 |
| Series: | Very Short Introductions |
| Author: | Gill Plain |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 136g |
| Dimensions: | 174mm x 111mm |
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About The Author
Gill Plain
Gill Plain is Professor of English at the University of St Andrews. Alongside a lifelong preoccupation with crime fiction, she has research interests in British literature, cinema, and culture of the mid-twentieth century, war writing, feminist theory and gender studies. She is the author of Women’s Fiction of the Second World War (1996); Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction: Gender, Sexuality and the Body (2001); and Literature of the 1940s: War,Postwar and ‘Peace’ (2013).
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