Презентация, доклад по английскому языку на тему Агата Кристи

of Crime.

During her 85 years of life, she authored 78 crime novels, 150 short stories, 6 romances and 19 plays.


More than 2 billion copies of her books and plays had been sold in 104 languages.


They are the third best-selling books in the world (after Shakespeare's works and the Bible).

The Creative Work

detectives.


Many of her novels and short stories have been turned into successfull films.


Her stage play “The Mousetrap” is the longest running play in history.

It was first performed in 1952 and after a record 23,000 performances it is still running today.

Oriental Express“-Убийство в «Восточном Экспрессе».
«Murder at the Vicarage»-
Убийство в доме викария.
«The Murder of Roger Ackroyd»
- Убийство Роджера Экройда
"The Mousetrap"- Мышеловка
"Poirot Investigates" -Пуаро расследует.
"Witness for the Prosecution"- Свидетель обвинения.
and many others…

Torquay, in the county Devon, England, on 15 September 1890 as the daughter of Frederick Alvah Miller, a British army captain, and Clarissa Miller. She was the third child in the family.
Christie was born in an upper-middle class family, growing up in a large Italian-style villa on the English seashore. She had a happy and peaceful childhood.

Christie was allowed by her free-spirited mother to run wild as much as possible.
On her own, she went out at a very young age on a sailboat with her unreliable brother.
She went on a mule trip with her sister without permission.
At the age of 6, she climbed out the 4th floor window of a hotel and walked riskily along the foot-wide ledge.
She was only eleven when her father died.

during the Victorian era.

Agatha`s mother encouraged her to write from very early age.

Christie had a brilliant mind, excelling in mathematics, logic, and music.

At sixteen, she was sent to school in Paris where she studied singing and piano.

Christie was an accomplished pianist but her stage fright and shyness prevented her from pursuing a career in music.

Adolescence

suitors as a young woman.

During World War I Agatha worked in a Red Cross Hospital in Torquay as a nurse.

Later on she got a job of a hospital dispenser, which gave her knowledge of poisons.

This influenced many of her crime stories because some of her victims were poisoned.

Christie, an officer in the Flying Royal Corps.

Their daughter, Rosalind, was born on 5th August 1919.

Her first novel, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" was published in 1920.
That was the first appearance of Hercule Poirot, who became one of the most famous private detectives since Sherlock Holmes.

By her own words, Agate started composing from simple imitation the sister who was already printed in magazines.

Agatha Christie in 1926 when the novel "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd“ was published.

By 1923, she was starting to develop a reputation as
a detective novelist.

She continued writing at least one novel a year for the rest of her life, with her fame and reputation growing by leaps and bounds.

and her husband, Colonel Archibald Christie, demanded divorce.

Agatha Christie's reaction was so unexpected that the writer in the future hardly could explain it: she disappeared.

Newspapers printed wild stories about her disappearance – that she had commited suicide, that she had been kidnapped, that she had run away with a secret lover.
Ten days later Agatha was found alive and well in a health spa of a hotel in Yorkshire, registered under a name... the woman whom her husband was going to marry.
But to this day, nobody really knows what happened during those ten days.

In 1928 marriage of Agatha and Archibald Christie broke up.

She had met him on her travels in Near East in 1927.

Max was Catholic and fourteen years her junior; he became one of the most prominent archaeologists of his generation.

Agatha periodically spent some months in a year in Syria and Iraq in expeditions together with her husband.

Later Christie used these exotic settings in her novels.

Agatha and Max were happily married for 46 years.

1920s.

In 1936 Christie published the first of six psychological romance novels.

Novels which weren't belonging to detective, left under Mary Uestmakkot's (Mary Westmacott) pseudonym.

10 novels were published under this pseudonym.

During World War II Christie worked in the dispensary of University Collage Hospital in London.

After the war she continued to write.

of the British Detection Club.
In 1971 the Queen gave her the title "Dame of the British Empire", which is an honorary rank equivalent to knighthood, but awarded much more rarely.

After a hugely successful career and a wonderful life Agatha died peacefully on 12 January 1976 in Wellington, Oxfordshire.

The last Poirot book, The Curtain, appeared shortly before the writer's death, and the last Miss Marple story, The Sleeping Murder, and her autobiography were published after her death.

At present Agatha Christie's grandson - Matthew Prichard lives in England.

of readers lies in her ability to combine clever plots with excellent character drawing and a keen sense of humour with a great observation.

Her plots always mislead the reader and keep him in suspense. He cannot guess who the criminal is. Fortunately, evil is always conquered in her novels.

Agatha Christie’s language is simple and good and it is pleasant to read her books in the original.