agathachristie（Agatha Christie是谁）_阿加莎_克里斯蒂_侦探小说

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• Agatha Christie是谁
• 罗杰疑案的作者简介
• 求关于Agatha Christie的英文资料
• 阿加莎克里斯蒂 英文简介
• 阿加莎克里斯蒂简介翻译（英译中或中译英）

Agatha Christie是谁

阿加莎·克里斯蒂Agatha christie（1890-1976）：一个被誉为“举世公认的侦探小说女王”的英国小说家与剧作家。英国皇家文学会会员，英国女王钦点“侦探女王”，“不列颠帝国勋章”获得者，埃克塞特大学名誉文学博士。因侦探小说成名，一生所获殊荣则远远超过了柯南·道尔。她的作品被译成103种文字，在157个国家出版，总印量仅次于《圣经》，并与《圣经》、《莎士比亚戏剧集》同列世界畅销书前三名。主要成就：创造出一个叫“赫邱里·波罗”的小人物，并凭借这个小人物使侦探小说正式步入正统文学的殿堂。
赫邱里·波罗：与福尔摩斯齐名的比利时人，鸭蛋脑袋，矮个子，有翘起的弯胡子。其貌不扬，有特殊的洁癖，在可以选择的情况下，宁愿挨子弹也不愿裤子沾土泥泞。常常向人提起他脑袋里的“小小的灰色细胞”，而这些“灰色细胞”就是他侦破各类奇谋怪案的唯一工具。曾因侦破诸如《东方快车谋杀案》、《尼罗河上的惨案》、《ABC谋杀案》等小案件而使自己与阿加莎·克里斯蒂同享世界级盛誉。

罗杰疑案的作者简介

阿加莎·克里斯蒂（AgathaChristie，1890-1976），被誉为举世公认的侦探推理小说女王。她的著作英文版销售量逾10亿册，而且还被译成百余种文字，销售量亦逾10亿册。她一生创作了80部侦探小说和短篇故事集，19部剧本，以及6部以玛丽·维斯特麦考特的笔名出版的小说。著作数量之丰仅次于莎士比亚。　　阿加莎·克里斯蒂的第一部小说《斯泰尔斯庄园奇案》写于第一次世界大战末，战时她担任志愿救护队员。在这部小说中她塑造了一个可爱的小个子比利时侦探赫尔克里·波格，成为继福尔摩斯之后侦探小说中最受读者欢迎的侦探形象。1926年，阿加莎·克里斯蒂写出了自己的成名作《罗杰疑案》（又译作《罗杰·艾克罗伊德谋杀案》）。1952年她最著名的剧本《捕鼠器》被搬上舞台，此后连续上演，时间之长久，创下了世界戏剧史上空前的纪录。　　1976年，她以85岁高龄永别了热爱她的人们。

求关于Agatha Christie的英文资料

以下内容,转自’“And now, messieurs et mesdames,“ said Poirot rapidly, “I will continue with what I was about to say. Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seeker after it. I am much aged, my powers may not be what they were.“ Here he clearly expected a contradiction. “In all probability this is the last case I shall ever investigate. But Hercule Poirot does not end with a failure. Messieurs at mesdames, I tell you, I mean to know. And I shall know - in spite of you all.“’ (from The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1926)
Agatha Christie was born in Torquay, in the county of Devon, as the daughter of Frederick Alvah Miller, an American with a moderate private income, and Clarissa Miller. Her father died when she was a child. Christie was educated home, where her mother encouraged her to write from very early age. 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. In her books Christie seldom referred to music, although her detectives, Poirot and Miss Marple, show interest in opera and Poirot sings in THE A.B.C. MURDERS (1936) a World War I song. When Christie’s mother took her to Cairo for a winter, she wrote there a novel. Encouraged by Eden Philpotts, neighbor and friend in Torquay, she devoted herself into writing and had short stories published.
In 1914 Christie married Archibald Christie, an officer in the Flying Royal Corps; their daughter, Rosalind, was born in 1919. During World War I she worked in a Red Cross Hospital in Torquayas a hospital dispenser, which gave her a knowledge of poisons. It was to be useful when she started writing mysteries. Christie’s first detective novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, introduced Hercule Poirot, the Belgian detective, who appeared in more than 40 books, the last of which was CURTAIN (1975). The Christies bought a house and named it ’Styles’ after the first novel.
Poirot was an amiably comic character with egg-shaped head, eccentric whose friend Captain Hastings represents the “idiot narrator“ - familiar from Sherlock Holmes stories. Poirot draws conclusions from observing people’s conduct and from objects around him, creating a chain of facts that finally reveal the murderer. ’“He tapped his forehead. “These little gray cells. It is ’up to them’ - as you say over here.“’ Behind the apparently separate details is always a pattern, which only Poirot is able to see.
Miss Marple, an elderly spinster, was a typical English character, but when Poirot used logic and rational methods, Marple relied on her feminine sensitivity and empathy to solve crimes. She was born and lived in the village of St. Mary Mead. Both Poirot and Marple did not have any family life, but Poirot also travelled much. Marple was featured in 17 novels, the first being MURDER AT THE VICARAGE (1930) and the last SLEEPING MURDER (1977). She was reportedly based on the author’s own grandmother. Miss Marple made her first screen appearance in 1961 in Murder She Said, starring Margaret Rutherford. It was based on the novel 4:50 FROM PADDINGTON (1957). It was followed by Murder at the Galop (1963), Murder Ahoy (1964), and Murder Most Foul (1964), all directed by George Pollock. The BBC TV series starring Joan Hickson ran 1984-87. Gracie Fields played Miss Marple on television in an adaptation of A Murder Is Announced (1956).
Poirot, a former policeman, was forced to flee his country after the German invasion of Belgium in 1914. His assistant Captain Hastings married in the early 1930s and Poirot settled to London’s Whitehaven Mansions. Poirot is short - only five feet four inches tall. He has waxed moustache, egg-shaped head and small feet. Poirot first appeared on screen in Alibi (1931). It was based on THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD (1926), which was partly inspired by Anton Chekhov’s novel The Shooting Party (1884-1885). “Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend,“ Christie wrote in it. With these kind of insights in motives and methods of a murder Christie proved that she could have been a competent teacher at police academies. Peter Ustinov played Poirot in Death on the Nile (1978), Evil under the Sun (1982), and Appointment with Death (1988). David Suchet was Poirot in the UK television series (1989-91). In Murder by the Book (1986) Ian Holm’s Poirot investigated his own murder. Tony Randall played Poirot in Frank Tashlin’s unorthodox adaptation The Alphabet Murders (1965), in which Anita Ekberg galloped on horseback through Kensington Gardens.
In 56 years Christie wrote 66 detective novels, among the best of which are The Murder of Roger Acroyd, MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (1934), DEATH ON THE NILE (1937), and TEN LITTLE NIGGERS (1939). The film version of Ten Little Niggers (1945, US title: And Then There Were None) by the French director René Clair, starring Walter Huston and Barry Fitzgerald, is one of the most faithful Christie adaptations. In addition to these mysteries, Christie wrote her autobiography (1977), and several plays, including THE MOUSETRAP, which run more than 30 years continuously in London, and had 8 862 performances at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. The play was based on the short story ’Three Blind Mice’, and was produced in 1952 in Nottingham and London. The original company at the Ambassadors Theatre included Richard Attenborough as the detective.
Christie’s marriage broke up in 1926. Archie Christie, who worked in the City, announced that he had fallen in love with a younger woman, Nancy Neele. In the same year Christie’s beloved mother died. After hearing that her husband had left for Miss Neele’s house, Christie disappeared for a time. “I would gladly give £500 if I could only hear where my wife is,“ said Colonel Christie. The story of her real life (love?) adventure in the 1926, when she lived in a Harrowgate hotel under the name Mrs. Neele, was basis for the film Agatha. It was directed in 1978 by Michael Apted. In title role was Vanessa Redgrave. Christie’s divorce was finalized in 1928, and two years later she married the archaeologist Max Mallowan. She had met him on her travels in Near East in 1927, and accompanied him on his excavations of sites in Syria and Iraq. Later Christie used these exotic settings in her novels MURDER IN MESOPOTAMIA (1936) and Death on the Nile (1937). Her own archeological adventures were recounted in COME TELL ME HOW YOU LIVE (1946). Mallowan was Catholic and fourteen years her junior; he became one of the most prominent archaeologist of his generation. Of her marriage the writer told reporters: “An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.“ Mallowan worked in Iraq in the 1950s but returnmed to England, when Christie’s health grew weaker. His most famous book was Nimrud and its Remains.
Christie’s most prolific period began in the late 1920s. During the 1930s he published four non-series mystery novels, fourteen Poirot novels, two Marple novels, two Superintendent Battle books, a book of stories featuring Harley Quin and another featuring Mr. Parken Pyne, an additional Maru Westmacott book, and two original plays. In 1936 she published the first of six psychological romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. After visiting Luxor in 1937, where Christie saw Howard Carter, she wrote the play AKHNATON, which was not published until 1973. It dramatized the fate of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhnaton, who tried to replace the old gods with monotheism, and Nefertiti, his wife. Curiously, the Finnish writer Mika Waltari, who gained later international fame with his historical novel The Egyptian (1945), wrote also in the same year a play about the same king, Akhnaton, auringosta syntynyt (1937). Christie’s play was prodeced in New York as Akhnaton and Nefertiti in 1979 and next year in London.
During WW II Christie worked in the dispensary of University College Hospital in London. She also produced twelve completed novels. After the war she continued to write prolifically, also gaining success on the stage and in the cinema. Witness for the Prosecution, for example, was chosen the best foreign play of the 1954-55 season by the New York Drama Critics Circle. Play had opened in London in October 1953 and by December 1954, it was on Broadway. With Max Mallowan she traveled in 1947 and 1949 to expeditions to Nimrud, the ancient capital of Assyria, and in the Tigris Valley.
Among the many film adaptations are Murder on the Orient Express (1974), directed by Sidney Lument and with Albert Finney as Poirot, and Death on the Nile (1978), with Peter Ustinov as Poirot. (see list below) Both films were nostalgic costume dramas. Sidney Lumet wrote in Making Movies (1995) that clothes contribute an enormus amount to the style of the picture. “When Betty Bacall makes her first appearance in Murder on the Orient Express, she’s wearing a full-length peach-colored bias-cut velvet dress with a matching hat and egret feather. Jacqueline Bisset, for her first appearance, wears a full-length blue silk dress, a matching jacket with a white ermine collar, and a tiny pillbox hat with a feather... The object was to thrust the audience into a world it never knew - to create a feeling of how glamorous things used to be.“ Even the small parts in Murder on the Orient Express was filled by famous stars. Richard Widmark was the victim, Lauren Bacall the American matron, Vanessa Redgrave the lady with the husband, Ingrid Berman the nurse, and John Gielgud the Jeeves character. Also Sean Connery and Anthony Perkins appeared.
According to Billy Wilder, Christie herself considered his Witness for the Prosecution the best film adaptation of her work. Wilder rewrote with Harry Kurnitz Christie’s dialogue but did not change the clever plot with a surprise ending. In the film Charles Laughton was Sir Wilfrid, a barrister, who defends Leonard Vole (Tyrone Power), an inventor, accused of murdering a middle-aged widowed woman. Marlene Dietrich was his German wife Christie, an actress, eager to testify against her husband. Wilfrid has just recovered from a severe heart attack. The role of his dominating nurse, Miss Plimsoll, was played by Laughton’s wife, Elsa Lanchester. In one scene she threatens to resign, if Wilfried doesn’t go to sleep. “Splendid,“ he replies. “Give her a month’s pay and kick her down the stairs.“ Dietrich’s performance had everything - she sang, kissed passionately Tyrone Power, said “I never use smelling salts because they puff up the eyes,“ and had a double role as a hard Cockney woman and a coldly articulating German woman. She was very disappointed when she did not even earn an Oscar nomination.
Christie’s characters are usually well-to-do people. Often the comfortable lifestyle of his characters is undermined by financial problems, which lead to murder. Although her villains use very complicated plans, they are not impossible, but are firmly grounded on the everyday reality: “Miss Lyall’s hobby in life, as has been said, was the study of human beings. Unlike most English people, she was capable of speaking to strangers on sight instead of allowing four days to a week to elapse before making the first cautious advance as is the customary British habit.“ (from ’Trinagle at Rhodes’ in Murder in the Mews, 1937) In many stories the reader is fooled to suspect an innocent character, but most innovative Christie was when she revealed the guilty party: it has been the narrator, a group of people, a serial killer who tries to hide an obvious motive for his killing one of the victims, and so forth. Christie’s world view was conservative and rational, but there is always a place for accidents: “’...Does it not strike you that the easiest way of removing someone you want to remove from your path is to take advantage of accident? Accidents are happening all the time. And sometimes - Hastings - they can be helped to happen!’“ (from Dumb Witness, 1937). Christie gives always a logical explanation for crimes, but society is not blamed. Murder is not a sign of degeneration of middle-class values. After the crime is solved, life continues happily. Although Christie’s writing career spanned over six decades, she was conscious of social change without fixating on the period between the two World Wars. “When I reread those first books,“ she said in 1966, “I’m amazed at the number of servants drifting around. And nobody is really doing any work, they’re always having tea on the lawn.“ However, she did not like editing her own text and was even reluctant to change the spelling unless a word has actually been misspelt.
By 1955 Christie had become a limited company, Agatha Christie Ltd, which was acquired in the late 1960s by Booker Books. It had already acquired Ian Fleming. In 1967 Christie became president of the British Detection Club, and in 1971 she was made a Dame of the British Empire. Christie died on January 12, 1976 in Wallingford, Oxforshire. Mallowan died two years later, but he had married after Christie’s death an old family friend. With over one hundred novels and over one hundred translations into foreign languages, Christie was by the time of her death the best-selling English novelist of all time. As Margery Allingham said: Christie has “entertained more people for more hours at time that any other writer of her generation.“ (New York Times Book Review, 1950)
For further reading: F. Behre: STUDIES IN AGATHA CHRISTIE’S WRITING (1967); G.C. Ramsey: AGATHA CHRISTIE (1967); J.Feinman: THE MYSTERIOUS WORLD OF AGATHA CHRISTIE (1975); D. Murdoch: THE AGATHA CHRISTIE MYSTERY (1976); N.B. Wynne: AN AGATHA CHRISTIE CHRONOLOGY (1976); Agatha Christie: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY (1977); H.R.F. Keating (ed.): AGATHA CHRISTIE (1977); M. Mallowan: MALLOWAN’S MEMOIRS (1977); G. Robyns: THE MYSTERY OF AGATHA CHRISTIE (1979); D. Riley and P. McAllister (eds.): THE BEDSIDE, BATHTUB AND ARMCHAIR COMPANION TO AGATHA CHRISTIE (1979); R. Toye: THE AGATHA CHRISTIE’S WHO IS WHO (1980); J. Mann: DEADLIER THAN MALE (1981); R.A. Barnard: A TALENT TO DEVEIVE (1981); J. Symons: AGATHA CHRISTIE (1981); H. Gregg: AGATHA CHRISTIE AND ALL THAT MOUSETRAP (1981); E.F. Bargainnier: THE GENTLE ART OF MURDER (1981); P.D. Maida and N.B. Spornick: A STUDY OF AGATHA CHRISTIE’S DETEDTIVE FICTION (1982); Charles Osborne: THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF AGATHA CHRISTIE (1982); N.B. Spornick: MURDER SHE WROTE (1982) Jane Morgan: AGATHA CHRISTIE (1984); A. Hart: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MISS MARPLE (1985); D. Sanders and L. Lovallo: THE AGATHA CHRISTIE COMPANION (1984); B. Morselt: AN A TO Z OF THE NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES OF AGATHA CHRISTIE (1986); M. Wagoner: AGATHA CHRISTIE (1986); G. Gill: AGATHA CHRISTIE (1990); A. Hart: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HERCULE POIROT (1990); G. Larsen: DOROTHY AND AGATHA (1990); R.T. Ryan: AGATHA CHRISTIE TRIVIA (1990); M. Shaw and S. Vanecker: REFLECTING ON MISS MARPLE (1991); Carol Dommermuth-Costa: AGATHA CHRISTIE (1997); Dawn B. Sova, et al.: AGATHA CHRISTIE A TO Z (1997); Charlotte Trümpler (ed.): AGATHA CHRISTIE AND ARCHAEOLOGY (2001) - See also: “Great Ladies“ of the English mystery’s golden age; Margery Allingham, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh - Latest posthumously published novel: Black Coffee (1998) - originally play, which was produced in 1930 and lated filmed. Adapted from the play by Charles Osborne. Hercule Poirot solves the theft of an explosive, which was invented by sir Clad Amory. - “I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.“ (from An Autobiography, 1977)

阿加莎克里斯蒂 英文简介

She is the “Queen of detective novels” British writer Agatha Christie. Agatha Christie was born in Devon County in 1890. When she was five she had already read a lot of books and tried to write novels. At the age of thirty, she had finished her first detective novel the Mysterious Affair at Styles. In the novel, she molded a Belgium detective Hercule Poirot. He is a little chap and has bending beard. He has many “gray brain cells” -reasoning factor, so he can always detection intelligently. He became the second famous detective after Sherlock Holmes. I esteem him very much. Death on the Nile is another famous book of Agatha Christie. And it had been film for a long time. Many people like it very much. In Agatha Christie’s life, she had written over sixty detective novels and she deserves to be the “Queen of detective novels”.

阿加莎克里斯蒂简介翻译（英译中或中译英）

Agatha Christie(1890--1976),a famous woman detective novelist,playwright and one of three great masters of reasoning literature.Her representative works,A Murder on the Eastern Express,A Murder by the Nile,are both welcomed warmly by many people.
Agatha Christie is known as the Queen of reasoning novels all over the world. Her works in English are sold more than 1 billion copies,besides, they are translated into more than 100 languages, which are also sold more than 1 billion copies.She created 80 detective novels and collections of short stories,19 plays and 6 novels which are published with the pen name of Mary Wistemykot.The number of her works is so great that it is just after the number of Shakespare’s works.
She was born in Dewen shire,Britain on September 15th 1890. And when she was 85 years old, she died at her home which was in Oxford shire,Britain.She was burried in the Saint Mary Cathedral.
Agatha Christie gained cultural qualities wholely from her mother. Her mother was a unique woman in characteristics with active thinking mode. Agatha Christie married for two times, and her first husband was a army commander who hoped to become a pilot. Her second husband was an archeologist.