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‘Wonderfully easy to read and engrossing.’ The Times
‘The best thing she has ever written.’ Woman’s Own
‘Agatha Christie’s most absorbing mystery – the story of her own unusual life. She has put it all on record: her early romances; a broken (and a happy) marriage; strange events on the path to roaring success.’ Daily Mail
‘A wonderful book – written with a delight in the gradual unfolding of 75 years through the eyes of an exceptional old lady and writer.’ Financial Times
Millions of fans the world over got to know her beloved characters, Hercule Poirot, Miss Jane Marple, and the rest, yet for decades little was known about their creator. Dame Agatha Christie was a woman who scrupulously kept her private life hidden from view, dodging the press, granting no interviews, and even, for a brief time, famously disappearing. But shortly after the great lady's death, the silence was broken when An Autobiography was finally published.
The witty, insightful, and immensely entertaining reflections of a marvelous talent, An Autobiography is as compulsively readable as Christie's novels. In her own inimitable style, a brilliant eccentric whose life encapsulated her times sheds light on her past, including her childhood in Victorian England, her volunteer work during World War II, and, of course, her phenomenal career. Agatha Christie's An Autobiography brings into sharp focus a beloved and enduring literary icon whose imagination continues to mesmerize readers to this very day.
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- PublisherCollins
- Publication date1977
- ISBN 10 0002160129
- ISBN 13 9780002160124
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages542
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Book Description hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Missing. Collins, St. James's Place, London, 1977. Hardcover, 542 pp. "First published 1977, Reprinted 1977". Good/ NO dust jacket. Brown cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Light bumping to edges of coversand light overall scuffing and soiling to covers as well. Spine slightly cocked but binding is tight. Previous owner's name in ink on front free end paper. Otherwise pages are lightly aged but unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Missing dust jacket. Illustrations, some in color. [From Preface] Agatha Christie began to write this book in April 1950; she finished it some fifteen years later when she was 75 years old. Any book written over so long a period must contain certain repetitions and inconsistencies and these have been tidied up. Nothing of importance has been omitted, how-ever: substantially, this is the autobiography as she would have wished it to appear. She ended it when she was 75 because, as she put it, 'it seems the right moment to stop. Because, as far as life is concerned, that is all there is to say.' The last ten years of her life saw some notable triumphs - the film of Murder on the Orient Express; the continued phenomenal run of The Mousetrap; sales of her books throughout the world growing massively year by year and in the United States taking the position at the top of the best-seller charts which had for long been hers as of right in Britain and the Commonwealth; her appointment in 1971 as a Dame of the British Empire. Yet these are no more than extra laurels for achievements that in her own mind were already behind her. In 1965 she could truthfully write . . . 'I am satisfied. I have done what I want to do' Though this is an autobiography, beginning, as autobiographies should, at the beginning and going on to the time she finished writing, Agatha Christie has not allowed herself to be too rigidly circumscribed by the strait-jacket of chronology. Part of the delight of this book lies in the way in which she moves as her fancy takes her; breaking off here to muse on the incomprehensible habits of housemaids or the compensations of old age; jumping forward there because some trait in her childlike character reminds her vividly of her grandson. Nor does she feel any obligation to put everything in. A few episodes which to some might seem important - the celebrated disappearance, for example - are not mentioned, though in that particular case the references elsewhere to an earlier attack of amnesia give the clue to the true course of events. As to the rest, I have remembered, I suppose, what I wanted to remember', and though she describes her parting from her first husband with moving dignity, what she usually wants to remember are the joyful or the amusing parts of her existence. Few people can have extraced more intense or more varied fun from life, and this book, above all, is a hymn to the joy of living.If she had seen this book into print she would undoubtedly have wished to acknowledge many of those who had helped bring that joy into her life; above all, of course, her husband Max and her family. Perhaps it would not be out of place for us, her publishers, to acknowledge her. For fifty years she bullied, berated and delighted us; her insistence on the highest standards in every field of publishing was a constant challenge; her good-humour and zest for life brought warmth into our lives. That she drew great pleasure from her writing is obvious from these pages; what does not appear is the way in which she could communicate that pleasure to all those involved with her work, so that to publish her made business ceaselessly enjoyable. It is certain that both as an author and as a person Agatha Christie will remain unique. Seller Inventory # 20240217017
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, very good condition, octavo, brown boards, in good chipped, price clipped and sunned dust wrapper in protective cover, illustrated with a few photographs and colour portraits, 542 pages. [QP]. Seller Inventory # 012469
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover with DJ. Published 1977, first edition. Excellent condition. Clean unmarked. A fine plus book in a near fine jacket. One small tear and little bottom edge creased to the jacket. Else, great. 542pp A well written book I almost read through. A lot of information with her two husbands and her works as well her travelings. Seller Inventory # 11532
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