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著者:
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Worsley, Lucy. |
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题名:
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Agatha Christie : [ an elusive woman /] / , |
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版次:
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First Pegasus Books cloth ed. |
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出版发行:
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出版地： New York : 出版社： Pegasus Crime, 出版日期： 2022. |
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载体形态:
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xvi, 415 p., 16 unnumbered p. of plates : ill., genealogical table ; 24 cm. |
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内容提要:
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"Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was "just" an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? Her life is fascinating for its mysteries and its passions and, as Lucy Worsley says, "She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern." She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating mental illness. So why--despite all the evidence to the contrary--did Agatha present herself as a retiring Edwardian lady of leisure? She was born in 1890 into a world that had its own rules about what women could and couldn't do. Lucy Worsley's biography is not just of a massively, internationally successful writer. It's also the story of a person who, despite the obstacles of class and gender, became an astonishingly successful working woman. With access to personal letters and papers that have rarely been seen, Lucy Worsley's biography is both authoritative and entertaining and makes us realize what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was--truly a woman who wrote the twentieth century"--Dust jacket flap. |
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主题词:
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Women novelists, English 20th century |
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Novelists, English 20th century |
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Detective and mystery stories, English History and criticism. |
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主题词:
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Women and literature History 20th century. England |
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Authors, English 20th century |
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Women authors, English 20th century |
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K835.615.6/69 |