With more than two billion books sold, Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time, and "Murder on the Orient Express"is one of her most popular novels. The 1934 novel features her internationally renowned detective, Hercule Poirot.

1. Agatha Christie

2. The dawn of the modern Age
• Free schooling for
everyone
• New social welfare
programs
• The cold war had ended
• Women were allowed to
vote and have jobs

3. World War 1
• WW1 started in August 1914
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and ended in November
1918
Seven Million died
Five Million were injured
Some poets started to write
One of these poets was
Robert Graves…

4. Robert Graves
• Born in 1895 and died in 1985
• Beauty in Trouble Beauty in trouble flees to
the good angel On whom she can rely To pay
her cab-fare, run a steaming bath, Poultice
her bruised eye; Will not at first, whether for
shame or caution, Her difficulty disclose; Until
he draws a cheque book from his plumage,
Asking her how much she owes; (Breakfast in
bed: coffee and marmalade, Toast, eggs,
orange-juice, After a long, sound sleep - the
first since when? - And no word of abuse.)
Loves him less only than her saint-like
mother, Promises to repay His loans and most
seraphic thoughtfulness A million-fold one
day. Beauty grows plump, renews her broken
courage And, borrowing ink and pen, Writes a
news-letter to the evil angel (Her first gay act
since when?): The fiend who beats, betrays
and sponges on her, Persuades her white is
black, Flaunts vespertilian wing and cloven
hoof; And soon will fetch her back. Virtue,
good angel, is its own reward: Your dollars
were well spent. But would you to the
marriage of true minds Admit impediment?
Robert Graves

5. A new kind of writing
• E.M Foster (1879-1970)
• A major influence was the British
writer T.S Elliot (1888-1965)
• T.S Elliot tried to create a new type
of writing. He also wrote poems
• A novel by James Joyce brought
attention to the new literature
• These writers dealt with the affects
of the War

6. Agatha Christie
• Her full name was Agatha May
Clarissa Miller
• She was born 1890 in Devon
England
• Her parents were Fredrick and
Clara Miller
• Her Dad died when she was 11

7. School
• She did not attend school until she was sixteen
• She attended a school in Paris where she studied music
• She looked to music to express herself

8. Writing
• Her mother introduced her to writing
• Her mother loved mysteries and was
curious about the unknown
• Agatha got some of her ideas from
these stories
• She began to develop her interest…

9. Married life
• She married at the age of 24
• She married a flight pilot named Archibald
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Christie
They had a child called Rosalind
In 1914, Archibald joined WWI
Agatha wanted to help the War, so she
worked as a nurse in a pharmacy.
Working as a nurse inspired her to write

10. Writing
• Most of her books were set during the
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War
She wrote 80 mystery novels
She sold over two billion copies in forty
five different languages
Only - Shakespeare and the Bible have
sold more books.
Agatha faced difficulties. Eight publishers
refused to help her - so she wrote under a
pen name: Nathaniel Miller

11. Rebirth
• Her mother died at the age of seventy-two
• Her husband left her
• As a result - she disappeared
• She remarried in September 1936 and started writing again
• She wrote Death on the Nile…

12. Fame
• Her books and plays
started to appear on
television
• In 1950, she became very
popular.
• Radio and television gave
her a lot of fame
• Many people started to
read her novels.

13. Autobiography
• She wrote it to let people
know about her life, the
hard times she faced
growing up and why she
disappeared etc.
• She has also wrote a
special book that she
dedicated to both her
husband and her daughter.

14. Dame of the British Empire
• Queen Elizabeth named her Dame of the British
Empire in 1971
• She died January 12, 1976
• She was buried in a small Church
• Agatha once said “I like living. I have sometimes
been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked
with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite
certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”

15. The end
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