![]() ![]() As well as her infamous eleven-day disappearance, she served as a nurse in World War One, travelled widely (hence the exotic locations of many of her novels), and casually became the world’s bestselling author after Shakespeare. She’s written some of the most widely beloved crime novels of all time: And Then There Were None, Murder on the Orient Express, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Death on the Nile, The Body in the Library – the list goes on. Despite the censors, Dame Agatha’s literature will live on, and as a lifelong fan, any opportunity to sing her praises from the rooftops is one I will gladly take.ĭame Agatha, born in 1890, had anything but an uneventful life. Therefore, there is no time like the present to celebrate the legacy of the Queen of Crime. ![]() Literature tells us where we’ve come from, be it good, bad, or ugly. ![]() I believe that rewriting classics not only unintentionally implies that we cannot cope with books of their time, but also produces airbrushed versions of texts that entirely miss the point of literature. As Agatha Christie becomes the latest in a line of authors whose works are being rewritten, censorship (even well-intentioned censorship) sees no sign of dissipating. ![]()
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