Agatha Christie (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)

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Summary: No newness for students of Agatha Christie's work
Review: As a master student of Agatha Christie's work I expected more from this book. The book contains essays extracted mainly from books of the 70s easily found and bought, such as the ones from Anne Hart, Gillian Gill, Charles Osborne, Julian Symons, Robert Barnard, Pam McAllister and a chapter from her own autobiography. Unfortunately, Prof Bloom's one-and-half-page essay does not add much to the critical fortune on her.

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Summary: Blends biography with literary coverage
Review: Harold Bloom's Agatha Christie blends biography with a literary coverage of Christie's extensive mystery works. From her poetry and short stories to a posthumous autobiography, Christie produced far more than just the mystery genre: this outlines her works and provides essays by many notable literary analysts.