Not only is she the best-selling novelist of all time ( certified by the Guinness World Record folks), her works continue to be extremely popular despite being products of their age, with descriptions and class attitudes that are either charmingly old-fashioned or alarmingly conservative, depending on your own views.
A hundred years later, few people know his name, and if they know the title of his most famous work, it’s probably because of Richard Pryor.īut Christie is something else entirely. A favorite example is George Barr McCutcheon, who had several bestsellers in the early 20 th century - including "Brewster’s Millions," which has been adapted to film seven times - and was quite the literary star. Most authors - even best-selling authors who won awards and enjoyed huge sales of their books - fade away shortly after they die, their work falling out of fashion. Agatha Christie is one of the rare writers who has completely transcended pop culture to become a more or less permanent fixture in the literary filament.
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