Christie, Agatha - While the Light Lasts by Christie Agatha

Author:Christie, Agatha [Christie, Agatha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1997-01-15T05:00:00+00:00

Afterword

‘The Lonely God’ was first published in the Royal Magazine in July 1926. It is one of Christie’s few purely romantic stories and she herself considered it to be ‘regrettably sentimental’.

Nevertheless, the story is interesting for it foreshadows Christie’s life-long interest in archaeology, which she identified as being her favourite study in her contribution to Michael Parkinson’s Confessions Album (1973), a book published for charity. It was a common interest in archaeology that led to her meeting the man who became her second husband, the celebrated archaeologist Max Mallowan. For many years after the Second World War, she and Mallowan spent each spring at Nimrud in Assyria and Christie’s own account of excavations at Tell Brak in Syria in 1937 and 1938, Come, Tell Me How You Live (1946), is an entertaining and informative guide to the sites and this important other side of her character. While she never, apparently, wrote while on expedition, her experiences did provide material for several novels, including the Poirot mysteries Murder in Mesopotamia (1936), Death on the Nile (1937) and Appointment With Death (1938), as well as the extraordinary Death Comes as the End (1944), which is set in ancient Egypt over two thousand years before the birth of Christ.

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