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    Agatha Christie Biography.

    Torquay, United Kingdom, 1891-Wallingford, id., 1976) English author of


    the detective genre, without a doubt one of the most prolific and read of
    the 20th century. Agatha Christie was the fruit of the marriage between
    Frederick Alvah Miller, an American stockbroker, and Clarissa Margaret Boehmer,
    daughter of a British Navy captain. She was the youngest of three brothers. Her
    father died when she was eleven years old and her mother taught her at home,
    encouraging her to write from a very young age. At the age of 16, she attended
    Mrs. Dryden's school in Paris to study singing, dancing and piano.
    She married Archibald Christie for the first time in 1916, from whom she divorced in
    1928, but after this marriage she became known worldwide as the writer of police
    and detective novels and stories, under the name Agatha Christie. In his several
    marriages, he had the opportunity to visit places around the world and use them as
    settings for his writings.
    In 1961 she was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and made
    an honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of Exeter.
    In 1971 she was awarded the title Dame of the British Empire (Dame), a title of
    nobility that was infrequently awarded in those days.
    Agatha Christie died of natural causes on 12 January 1976, aged 85, at
    Winterbrook House, Cholsey, near Wallingford, Oxfordshire. She is buried in the
    churchyard of St. Mary, in Cholsey.
    Plays.
    Plot of the play Murder on the Orient Express

    Author : Agatha Christie


    Genre: Novels / Fiction and Literature
    Spanish Language
    Argument:

    Istanbul, midwinter. Poirot decides to take the Orient Express, which at this time
    runs practically empty. The next morning, when he wakes up, he discovers that an
    American, named Ratcher, has been murdered.
    The murderer, without a doubt, is one of the occupants, among whom are a
    haughty Russian princess and an English governess.
    Poirot has been present when Jane talked about "getting rid" of her husband, and
    has even been asked to help her get a divorce.
    Now, the man is dead. And yet, the Belgian detective can't help but feel that the
    circumstances don't quite add up. After all, how could Jane murder her husband in
    the library at the exact same time she was seen having dinner with friends? And
    what could be her motive when the aristocrat had finally granted her a divorce?
    Just after midnight, a snow storm stopped the Orient Express in its tracks. The
    luxurious train was surprisingly full for the time of year. But at the end of the night
    there was one less passenger. An American lay dead in his cabin, stabbed a
    dozen times and with the door locked from the inside.
    With tensions rising, it's Hercule Poirot's turn to find not one, but two solutions to
    the case...
    'Murder on the Orient Express' was made into a film with great success.
    The characteristics of the Gothic novel.
    The Gothic novel was characterized by its multiplicity of phantasmagoria, magic,
    inquisition, ruins, abbeys, sinister and supernatural landscapes that it recreated, all
    framed by a somber and impressive medieval architecture composed of arcane
    cathedrals, aristocratic mausoleums, underground passages and dark galleries,
    Likewise, those scenes were decorated by thick ivy, proud cypresses, dense forests,
    moonlit nights and violent storms. Some authors highlight the taste for the
    Mediterranean and find it inherent to this type of novel to find names with this
    imprint (Matilda, Ambrosio, Montoni) as places: Otranto, Madrid, I have even
    personal traits of the "beautiful black eyes, forehead pale face and jet curls" as
    observed in one of the passages of Warpole's work.
    It is also common to find in crime novels scenes in which the cold currents of air
    suddenly extinguish the candles at key moments, strange and often unfortunate
    coincidences, crimes and conspiracies whose purpose is to overwhelm the reader
    with fear, at this point. Critics agree in recognizing a certain degree of naivety in
    this kind of suspense, which by virtue of its linearity is so predictable that even the
    least sophisticated reader can recognize in advance the causes and consequences
    that precede a not so unusual ending.
    Examples of Gothic novels :

    1 Africanus the son of the Consul - Santiago Posteguillo -


    2 The Cursed Legions - Santiago Posteguillo -
    3 Doors of Fire - Steven Pressfield -
    4 The Lost Army - Valerio Massimo Manfredi -
    5 Hellenikon - Luis Villalón -
    6 The Lions of Al Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay -
    7 The Sleeping Voice - Dulce Chacón -
    8 I Claudius - Robert Graves -
    9 The First Man from Rome - Colleen McCullough -
    10 El Cid - Jose Luis Corra

    Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus by Mary


    Wollstonecraft Shelley, of which there are many films today in 2014 a new version is released

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