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The Gentle Art of Murder: The Detective Fiction of Agatha Christie
Earl F. Bargainnier
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paperback. A study of the technique of Agatha Christie's detective fiction. Providing an analysis of her accomplishments as a writer, the author demonstrates that Christie thoroughly understood the conventions of her genre and, with seemingly inexhaustible ingenuity, was able to develop for several years surprising variations within those conventions. Num Pages: 238 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
This study of the technique of Agatha Christie's detective fiction - sixty-seven novels and more than one hundred short stories - is the first extensive analysis of her accomplishments as a writer. Bargainnier demonstrates that Christie thoroughly understood the conventions of her genre and, with seemingly inexhaustible ingenuity, was able to develop for more than fifty years surprising variations within those conventions.
This study of the technique of Agatha Christie's detective fiction - sixty-seven novels and more than one hundred short stories - is the first extensive analysis of her accomplishments as a writer. Bargainnier demonstrates that Christie thoroughly understood the conventions of her genre and, with seemingly inexhaustible ingenuity, was able to develop for more than fifty years surprising variations within those conventions.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1980
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press United States
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
Number of Pages
238
Place of Publication
Bowling Green, United States
ISBN
9780879721596
SKU
V9780879721596
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99-1
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