Exercise 1, page 102.0:03
Agatha Christie was a famous English crime writer who is best known for her detective stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple.0:26
Agatha was born in 1890 in the seaside town of Torquay in Devon, England, to an American father and an English mother.0:35
Her family was well-to-do and conservative, and she was the youngest of 3 children.0:43
Although Agatha never attended school, she didn't lack education.0:49
She taught herself how to read when she was only 4, and later her parents hired tutors to provide lessons in subjects such as music, dance, mathematics, and French.0:53
Agatha was a shy child and having problems expressing herself verbally, she first turned to music and later to writing and became very good at making up stories.1:03
When she was 11, her father died and she became very close to her mother with whom she started to travel a lot.1:13
During the First World War, Agatha worked as a nurse in a hospital, and it was during this time that Agatha Christie got the idea of writing a detective novel.1:20
Although she finished the story in a year, it wasn't published until 5 years later.1:29
The Mysterious Affair at Styles introduced the retired Belgian police officer Hercule Poirot to the world and was a great success.1:34
Following this, Agatha would write more than 30 novels featuring Poirot, In all, she wrote over 66 novels, the most famous being Murder on the Orient Express, and according to the Guinness Book of Records, Agatha Christie is the best-selling1:42
writer of her time, with over 4 billion books sold throughout the world.1:56
In 1971, she was awarded the high honour of Dame of the British Empire before passing away peacefully on the 21st of January, 1976.2:01
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