And Then There Were None is a 1939 mystery novel by the English writer Agatha Christie. It is the world's best-selling mystery novel and one of the best-selling books of all time, with more than 100 million copies sold by 2007. It has been adapted for film, television, radio, theatre, …
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And Then There Were None is a 1939 mystery novel by the English writer Agatha Christie. It is the world's best-selling mystery novel and one of the best-selling books of all time, with more than 100 million copies sold by 2007. It has been adapted for film, television, radio, theatre, and other media more often than any other of Christie's works. In 2015, it was named the "World's Favourite Christie" in a global vote organised by the author's estate. The story takes place on an isolated island off the coast of Devon. Ten individuals are accused of past crimes and are killed one by one according to the lines of a popular rhyme. Christie described the book as the most difficult of her novels to write because of the complexity of the plot and its solution, and regarded it as a better piece of craftsmanship than anything else she had written. The novel received largely positive reviews on first publication, with critics praising the ingenuity of its plot, and it has since been frequently named among the greatest crime novels ever written. In 1990 the Crime Writers' Association ranked it nineteenth on its list of the best crime novels, and in 1995 the Mystery Writers of America placed it tenth on a comparable list. The book was first published in the United Kingdom by Collins Crime Club in 1939 as Ten Little Niggers, after an 1869 minstrel song that forms the central element of the plot. It appeared in the UK under that title until 1985. The first American edition, published in 1940, was called And Then There Were None from the start, as the original was considered unacceptably racially loaded in the United States; the book was also issued there as Ten Little Indians between 1964 and 1986. Later editions in both countries revised the text and the rhyme to remove the original racial language, and the novel is now published in English only as And Then There Were None.
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- 7962202
- BNF ID:
- 17796845t
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And Then There Were none
300 pages
English language
Published April 1, 2011 by Harper.
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- 978-0-06-207348-8Copied ISBN!
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- 61866983
And Then There Were None
264 pages
English language
Published Jan. 1, 2004
- ISBN:
- 978-0-312-33087-3Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 16299
Ten Little Niggers
252 pages
English language
Published 1977
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- 978-0-00-231835-8Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 105097
And then there were none
224 pages
English language
Published 1993 by HarperCollins.
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- 978-0-00-616540-8Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 1124625
And Then There Were None
247 pages
English language
Published Jan. 18, 2011
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- 978-0-06-207347-1Copied ISBN!
And Then There Were None
224 pages
English language
Published March 3, 2003 by HarperCollins.
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- 978-0-00-713683-4Copied ISBN!
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- 181133
Ils étaient dix (Nouv. éd. de "Dix petits nègres")
288 pages
French language
Published Aug. 26, 2020 by Le Livre de poche.
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- 978-2-253-24178-2Copied ISBN!
Dix petits Nègres
312 pages
French language
Published 2007 by Le Livre de poche jeunesse.
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- 978-2-01-322402-4Copied ISBN!
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- 58561848
Dieci piccoli indiani
229 pages
Italian language
Published June 19, 2012 by Gruppo Mondadori.
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- 978-88-04-61698-6Copied ISBN!
Dix petits nègres
312 pages
French language
Published Oct. 2, 2002 by Hachette Jeunesse.
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- 978-2-01-322062-0Copied ISBN!
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- 1954129
Dix petits nègres
224 pages
French language
Published Sept. 1, 1976 by Le Livre de poche.
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- 978-2-253-00396-0Copied ISBN!
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- 1835695
Dix petits nègres
312 pages
French language
Published 2014
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- 978-2-01-000910-5Copied ISBN!
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- 83803369
Dix petits nègres
221 pages
French language
Published 1988 by Éditions du Masque.
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- 978-2-7024-1004-2Copied ISBN!
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- 947567
Dix petits nègres
221 pages
French language
Published March 17, 1999 by Éditions du Masque.
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- 978-2-7024-2469-8Copied ISBN!
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- 1140084
Agatha Christie, tome 6
1182 pages
French language
Published 1993 by Éditions du Masque.
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- 978-2-7024-2239-7Copied ISBN!
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- 1954135
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