Heya frnds briefly tell me about Agatha Christie Novel # And Then There Were None.
And also write about all ten characters.
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And Then There Were None is a mystery novel by English writer Agatha Christie, her best selling novel and described by her as the most difficult of her books to write.
Anthony James Marston, an amoral and irresponsible young man, killed two young children (John and Lucy Combes) while driving recklessly, for which he felt no real remorse and accepted no personal responsibility, complaining only that his driving licence had been suspended as a result. He was the first island victim.
Mrs Ethel Rogers, the cook/housekeeper and Thomas Rogers' wife, described as a pale and ghost-like woman who walks in mortal fear. She was dominated by her bullying husband, who coerced her into agreeing to withhold the medicine of a former employer (Miss Jennifer Brady, an elderly spinster) in order that they might collect an inheritance they knew she had left them in her will. Mrs Rogers was the second victim.
General John Gordon MacArthur, a retired World War I war hero, who sent his late wife's lover (a younger officer, Arthur Richmond) to his death by assigning him to a mission where it was practically guaranteed he would not survive. Leslie MacArthur had mistakenly put the wrong letters in the envelopes on one occasion when she wrote to both men at the same time. The general tells Vera that no one will leave the island alive.
Agatha Christie was compelled to write ATTWN because it was such a difficult plot to write effectively that the idea fascinated her. The story line went through massive rewrites before she was ready to write it.Agatha Christie originally considered including at least twelve characters on the island which is two more than the ten that she finally settled on.In early brainstorming sessions, the crimes that some characters committed were quite different from the ones in the final book.
The character who eventually became Vera Claythorne originally drove her lover to suicide, the character who became Emily Brent bullied her servant into taking poison, and the military man sent thirty soldiers to die in battle unnecessarily.As Christie worked on the stage adaptation of ATTWN, she decided to change the ending to a 'happier' one where characters survive and fall in love, because as the play was being performed during WWII, she thought that the original ending would have been far too bleak.
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At first, no one wanted to produce the play version of ATTWN because they insisted that the storyline wouldn't work on stage and that people would laugh at it. After a lot of effort, Christie was able to find a producer willing to take a chance on ATTWN.