Exercise 1, page 102.0:04
Agatha Christie was a famous English crime writer who is best known for her detective stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple.0:29
Agatha was born in 1890 in the seaside town of Torquay in Devon, England, to an American father and an English mother.0:39
Her family was well-to-do and conservative, and she was the youngest of 3 children.0:50
Although Agatha never attended school, she didn't lack education.0:57
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.1:02
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.1:15
When she was 11, her father died, and she became very close to her mother, with whom she started to travel a lot.1:27
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.1:35
Although she finished the story in a year, it wasn't published until 5 years later.1:46
The Mysterious Affair at Styles introduced the retired Belgian police officer Hercule Poirot to the world and was a great success.1:52
Following this, Agatha would write more than 30 novels featuring Poirot.2:03
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-selling writer of her time, with over 4 billion books sold throughout2:08
In 1971, she was awarded the high honour of Dame of the British Empire before passing away peacefully on 21 January 1976.2:26
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