- Roman policier, French language materials, Français (langue), Lectures et morceaux choisis
And Then There Were None is a mystery novel by the English writer Agatha Christie, described by her as the most difficult of her books to write. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November 1939, as Ten Little Niggers, after the children's counting rhyme and minstrel song, which serves as a major element of the plot.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Grave, intimate, bleak and plot-driven.
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- First published
- 1939
- Pages
- 222
- Publisher
- Agatha Christie Ltd, HarperCollins Publishers, Independently Published
- Editions
- 215
- Language
- hun, fin, Japanese, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9780060736330
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 332 have read it and 1,903 want to.
“IN THE CORNER of a first-class smoking carriage, Mr. Justice Wargrave, lately retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar and ran an interested eye through the political news in the Times.”
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, in the United Kingdom, the daughter of a wealthy American stockbroker. Her father died when she was eleven years old. Her mother taught her at home, encouraging her to write at a very young age. At the age of 16, she went to Mrs. Dryden's finishing school in Paris to study singing and piano. In 1914, at age 24, she married Colonel Archibald Christie, an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps. While he went away to war, she worked as a nurse and wrote her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), which wasn't published until four years later. When her husband came back from the war, they had a daughter. In 1928 she divorced her hus
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
Of Mice and Men 193754% alikeBoth intimate, grave, earnest; this one is more character-led.
Lord of the Flies 195453% alikeBoth grave, earnest, classical in form; this one is more open-ended.
Dracula 189753% alikeBoth grave, earnest, bleak; this one is more epic.
Both grave, classical in form.
Six of Crows 201551% alikeBoth grave, classical in form, earnest; this one is more epic.
The Secret History 199251% alikeBoth grave, bleak; this one is more character-led.
Animal Farm 194551% alikeBoth plot-driven; this one is more ironic.
Frankenstein 201748% alikeBoth grave, earnest, classical in form.
The Woman in the Window 194477% alikeFilm · Both grave, earnest, classical in form.
The Postman Always Rings Twice 194675% alikeFilm · Both grave, intimate, classical in form.