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Do you know which books are the most published in the world? In the first place - the Bible, in the second - the immortal works of Shakespeare. But on the third - works related to the "light genre", the so-called entertainment literature, united by the genre and the author. In third place in the world in terms of the frequency of publication are the detectives of Agatha Christie. Over 4 billion copies of her works have been published in more than 100 languages. So who was the famous writer Agatha Christie?
Her biography sometimes resembles one of the writer's novels. It has love, betrayal and a mysterious disappearance with a happy ending.
The future writer's maiden name is Miller. She was born on September 15, 1890 in the small town of Torquay.
During the First World War, the girl worked as a nurse in a military hospital, and then as a pharmacist in a pharmacy. Knowledge in the field of chemicals, and especially poisons, was useful to Agatha in her work. 83 murders she described in detective stories were poisonings.
In 1914, out of great mutual love, young Agatha Miller married a colonel named Archibald Christie. Soon she will glorify thislast name.
The first detective novel came out in 1920. It was called "The Curious Affair at Styles". The author was designated by no one known Agatha Christie. Her biography as a writer began just then.
1926 was an extremely difficult year for Agatha. She had to endure two hardest blows during this period: the death of her mother and the betrayal of her husband. In the twelfth year of his marriage, Archibald asked his wife for a divorce because he had met another woman. There was a quarrel between them, after which Agatha Christie suddenly disappeared from the house. The biography of the writer tells that for 11 days her whereabouts remained a mystery. And only after this period she was found in a small hotel, where she registered under the name of her husband's mistress. At the same time, she could not really explain how she got there, as a result of which the doctors diagnosed her with amnesia. What actually happened is not known, but there is speculation that it was a case of what is medically called "dissociative fugue" - a disease caused by a severe mental disorder.
Two years later, the Christie couple divorced.
However, fate favored an English lady named Agatha Christie. A brief biography reports that already in 1930 the writer met an archaeologist, with whom she lived in a happy marriage for the rest of her life (46 years). His name was Max Mallowan and he was 15 years younger than his wife.
Agatha Christie, whose biography is at the center of our attention, lived to be 86 years old. During this time, she wrote 60 detective novels and 6 psychological ones. The latter were released under the pseudonyms Westmacott or Mary Westmacott. The light saw 19 collections, which included mainly stories. And in the theaters of London there were premieres of 16 of her plays. One of them, "The Mousetrap", became the record holder for the number of productions. The author's favorite brainchild was the novel "Ten Little Indians".
A lot of films have been shot based on the works of the writer, including serials, in which the audience is closely following the investigations carried out by their favorite characters, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
Readers are of great interest not only to the books of the famous writer, but also stories about her. Similar monographs are published in different languages. There is also a biography of Agatha Christie in Russian by the author Tsimbaeva E. N., en titled "Agatha Christie", published in print in 2013.
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