Agatha Christie At Home /anglais - Couverture rigide

Macaskil, Hilary

 
9781914902000: Agatha Christie At Home /anglais
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ISBN 10 : 1914902009 ISBN 13 : 9781914902000
Editeur : Pimpernel Press Ltd, 2023

Synopsis

This new and revised edition of Hilary Macaskill’s classic book, with many new illustrations, offers an insight into the life and work of the world’s bestselling author.

Hilary Macaskill examines the houses that meant most to Agatha Christie, including her childhood home, Ashfield, in Torquay; Winterbrook in Oxfordshire, and, above all, Greenway, soaring above the River Dart and Agatha’s favorite home from 1938 to the end of her life in 1976 (though requisitioned in the Second World War by the Admiralty, and from 1943 to 1945 home also to the United States Coast Guard).

The author also explores more temporary abodes, not only a succession of flats and houses in London (mainly in Kensington and Chelsea) but also the homes she set up at the digs (mostly in the Middle East) that she traveled to with her archaeologist husband, Max Mallowan, and the hotels – notably the Moorland Hotel on Dartmoor, to which she adjourned in the grip of writer’s block to complete her first detective novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, and the Burgh Island Hotel, a major inspiration for And Then There Were None and Evil Under the Sun.

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À propos de l?auteur

Hilary Macaskill is a journalist and travel writer. She is the author of Downhill All the Way, Virginia Woolf at Home, Charles Dickens at Home, Daphne du Maurier at Home and Agatha Christie at Home. She lives in London.

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Mathew Prichard is Agatha Christie's grandson, and was, until he handed over the reins to his son, the chairman of Agatha Christie Limited.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

This new and revised edition of Hilary Macaskill’s classic book, with many new illustrations, offers an insight into the life and work of the world’s bestselling author.

Hilary Macaskill examines the houses that meant most to Agatha Christie, including her childhood home, Ashfield, in Torquay; Winterbrook in Oxfordshire, and, above all, Greenway, soaring above the River Dart and Agatha’s favorite home from 1938 to the end of her life in 1976 (though requisitioned in the Second World War by the Admiralty, and from 1943 to 1945 home also to the United States Coast Guard).

The author also explores more temporary abodes, not only a succession of flats and houses in London (mainly in Kensington and Chelsea) but also the homes she set up at the digs (mostly in the Middle East) that she traveled to with her archaeologist husband, Max Mallowan, and the hotels – notably the Moorland Hotel on Dartmoor, to which she adjourned in the grip of writer’s block to complete her first detective novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, and the Burgh Island Hotel, a major inspiration for And Then There Were None and Evil Under the Sun.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Pimpernel Press Ltd
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1914902009
ISBN 13 
9781914902000
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
3
Nombre de pages
192
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0711230293 ISBN 13 :  9780711230293
Editeur : Frances Lincoln, 2009
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