Agatha Christie
A Very Short Introduction
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- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
6 January 2026
Summary
Agatha Christie is a global bestseller. Her work has been translated into over 100 languages and adapted for stage and screen. Christie’s writing life ran from 1920 to the 1970s, and she didn’t just write puzzles, she wrote plays, supernatural stories, thrillers, satires, and domestic noir. She also commented obliquely but perceptively on the social and cultural changes of a troubled century.
Christie’s work tells the story of a changing Britain, but perhaps her greatest achievement i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198863748 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198863748 |
| Author: | Gill Plain |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 6 January 2026 |
| Weight: | 136g |
| Dimensions: | 176mm x 112mm x 10mm |
| Series: | Very Short Introductions |
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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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