Agatha Christie: Radio 4 Book of the Week 阿加莎·克里斯蒂 Lucy Worsley

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 432 pages

Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton

Imprint:Hodder Paperback

ISBN:9781529303919

Published:31 Aug 2023

Classifications:c 1800 to c 1900, 20th century, Biography: arts & entertainment, Biography: literary, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Readership:General (US: Trade)

Dimensions:198 x 129 (mm)

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书籍简介

一位杰出女性讲述另一位杰出女性的故事：令人难以抗拒的组合。- 安东尼娅-弗雷泽'这是我读过的令人愉快的传记之一。- A.N. Wilson "阅读沃斯利就像阅读克里斯蒂本人一样令人愉快。- Ruth Scurr "充满了独特的洞察力、令人大开眼界的细节、犀利的分析......扣人心弦。扣人心弦。- 为什么阿加莎-克里斯蒂在她的职业生涯中一直假装自己 "只是 "一名普通的家庭主妇，而她显然不是？正如露西-沃斯利（Lucy Worsley）所说，"她是一个令人激动、令人惊叹的现代人"。

她去夏威夷冲浪，她喜欢快车，她对心理学这门新科学很感兴趣，这帮助她度过了毁灭性的精神疾病。那么，为什么尽管有种种相反的证据，阿加莎却以一位爱德华时代的退休休闲女士自居呢？1890年，她出生在一个对女性能做什么和不能做什么有着自己规定的世界。露西-沃斯利（Lucy Worsley）的传记不仅讲述了一位国际知名的畅销书作家。

这也是一个人的故事，她克服了阶级和性别的障碍，成为了一位令人惊叹的成功职业女性。露西-沃斯利的传记获得了极少见的私人信件和文件，既权威又有趣，让我们认识到阿加莎-克里斯蒂是一位非凡的先驱--真正书写了20世纪的女性。

'One brilliant woman writing about another: an irresistible combination.' - Antonia Fraser'One of the most delightful biographies I have ever read.' - A.N. Wilson'Reading Worsley is as enjoyable as reading Christie herself.' - Ruth Scurr'Full of unique insight, eye opening detail, sharp analysis... Gripping.' - Kate Williams 'Nobody in the world was more inadequate to act the heroine than I was.'Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was 'just' an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? 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 which had its own rules about what women could and couldn't do. Lucy Worsley's biography is not just of an internationally renowned bestselling 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 realise what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was - truly a woman who wrote the twentieth century.

作者简介

露西-沃斯利（Lucy Worsley OBE）是慈善机构 "历史皇家宫殿"（Historic Royal Palaces）的首席策展人，还为英国广播公司（BBC）制作历史纪录片。她的畅销书包括《维多利亚女王》（Queen Victoria）、《简-奥斯汀在家》（Jane Austen at Home）、《英国谋杀案》（A Very British Murder）、《如果墙壁会说话》（If Walls Could Talk： 2019年，她与露西-沃斯利（Lucy Worsley）合作的BBC One节目《女权运动者》（Suffragettes）荣获英国电影电视艺术学院奖。

Lucy Worsley OBE is Chief Curator at the charity Historic Royal Palaces and also presents history documentaries for the BBC. Her bestselling books include Queen Victoria, Jane Austen at Home, A Very British Murder, If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home, Courtiers, Cavalier and four historical novels for young readers. In 2019 her BBC One programme Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley won a BAFTA.