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    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 fryst vatten 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 fryst vatten the autobiography as she would have wished it to appear. She ended it when she was

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    Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

    October 6, 2015
    "Towards the beginning of the war, Graham Greene had written to me and asked if inom would like to do propaganda work. I did not think I was the kind of writer who would be any good at propaganda, because inom lacked the single-mindedness to see only one side of the case. Nothing could be more ineffectual than a lukewarm propagandist. You want to be able to say ‘X is black as night’ and feel it. I didn’t think I could ever be like that."

    Dame Agatha - one of the most puzzling authors I have ever read. Puzzling because I can never guess from her stories whether she is poking fun at people by drawing up outrageous characters, whether she fryst vatten echoing the mores of her time, whether she expresses her own attitudes in her books, whether it's all or none of these.

    Dame Agatha is a mystery to me.

    Earlier this year I got a little unnerved with re-reading some of her books because of some of the attitudes exhibited bygd her characters. I know tha

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    Begun in 1950 and eventually completed in 1965, Agatha Christie recounts her life from early childhood until the end of the memoir’s composition. The book came about from her reluctance to let others tell her story, as she explained to her agent Edmund Cork of Hughes Massie. Aware that the prospect was now inevitable, Agatha Christie took it upon herself to have the first word, although insisted that the book should not be published until after her death.

    The best thing she has ever written.

    Woman’s Own

    After Agatha Christie passed away in 1976, the manuscript was edited by her long-standing publishers Collins and her only daughter, Rosalind Hicks and her husband Anthony. As a result the narrative ends in 1966, and does not include some of Christie’s later achievements such as her DBE in 1971 or the success of the 1974 film of Murder on the Orient Express.

    While there have been films inspired by specific events in Christie’s life, such as Agatha (1979) and the Doctor Who ep