Ten little niggers
1) “And Then There Were None” is a mystery novel by the English writer Agatha Christie.
2) It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November 1939, as Ten Little Niggers.
3) The title f the book “Ten Little Niggers” is inspired by the children counting and minstrel song. In this song word “Indian” was used instead of niggers.
4) The counting and minstrel song “ten little niggers” or “ten little Indians” eliminates each person by certain mishap which kills or injures that person.
5) Meaning of niggers is indigenous North American people.
6) Both Indians and indigenous North American people are of generally brown or black race.
7) The book “ten little niggers” was renamed as “And Then There Were None” for its US edition.
8) The phrase “And then there were none” is the last line of the counting and minstrel song “ten little niggers” or “ten little Indians”.
9) Further American editions of the novel “Ten little niggers” were named as “Ten little Indians”
10) The book is the world's best-selling mystery, and with over 100 million copies.
11) There is one more version of the counting and minstrel song “ten little niggers” or “ten little Indians” published in 2008 named as “ten little soldiers”.
12) The counting and minstrel song “ten little niggers” or “ten little Indians” or “ten little soldiers” as well as the novel written by Agatha Christie “Ten little niggers” or “And then there were none” mentions about deaths of ten people in ten different way. And these rhymes are sang by children as a back counting song.
13) The term ‘niggers’ more often translated as ‘nigro’ or ‘nigrito’ which are again black races from South Africa and South Asia respectively.
14) A Hindi film “Gumnam” was adapted from the story of the novel “ten little niggers”.
15) There are about 25 films released based on the story of the novel “ten little niggers”
16) There are about 14 Television adaptations of the novel “ten little niggers” telecasted around the world in different languages.
17) Many mobile games and PC games are based on the plot of the novel “Ten little niggers”.
18) The 2014 live action comedy-crime and murder mystery TV web series Ten Little Roosters, produced by American company Rooster Teeth, is largely inspired by And Then There Were None.
19) In 2010, American animated TV series Family Guy adapted the story.
20) And this song full of deaths of black and/or brown race is part of curriculum of many countries specially in English medium schools.
21) The poem and the novel mentioned above is only spreading hate about the certain races which are indigenous, black or brown.
So this was the piece of information about a writer who was willing to kill all the people of black and brown race. Now let us know about the writer of the story.
Agatha Christie
1) Full name: Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan.
2) Birth: 15 September 1890.
3) Death: 12 January 1976.
4) Agatha Christie was an English writer.
5) She also wrote the world's longest-running play “The Mousetrap”.
6) Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.
7) Initially Agatha Christie was an unsuccessful writer with six consecutive rejections.
8) In 1920, her popular book The Mysterious Affair at Styles was published, which featured detective Hercule Poirot.
9) Her first husband was Archibald Christie; they married in 1914 and had one child before divorcing in 1928.
10) Following her marriage to archaeologist Max Mallowan in 1930, Agatha Christie spent several months each year on digs in the Middle East and used her first-hand knowledge of this profession in her fiction.
11) During both World Wars, Agatha Christie served in hospital dispensaries, acquiring a thorough knowledge of the poisons which featured in many of her novels, short stories, and plays.
12) According to UNESCO's Index Translationum – Database of Translated books, Agatha Christie remains the most-translated individual author.
13) The play “The Mousetrap” had performed more than 27,500 times since 25 November 1952 till September 2018 and it is still played in the theatres.
14) In 1955, Christie was the first recipient of the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award.
15) In 1955, the play Witness for the Prosecution received an Edgar Award for best play. The play was adapted from Agatha Christie’s short story “Traitor’s Hand”.
16) After a quarrel with her first husband Archibald Christie on 3rd December, 1926 Agatha Christie disappeared and her disappearance was featured on the front page of The New York Times. The missing case got heated as price money was announced to find her.
17) Christie's first published book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, was released in 1920 and introduced the detective Hercule Poirot, who appeared in 33 of her novels and more than 50 short stories.
18) Miss Jane Marple was introduced in a series of short stories that began publication in December 1927 and were subsequently collected under the title The Thirteen Problems.
19) Agatha Christie has been called the "Duchess of Death", the "Mistress of Mystery", and the "Queen of Crime".
20) Agatha Christie included stereotyped descriptions of characters in her work, especially before 1945 (when such attitudes were more commonly expressed publicly), particularly in regard to Italians, Jews, and non-Europeans.
21) Christie published six mainstream novels under the name Mary Westmacott, a pseudonym which gave her the freedom to explore "her most private and precious imaginative garden".
22) Agatha Christie was named "Best Writer of the Century" and the Hercule Poirot series of books was named "Best Series of the Century" at the 2000 Bouchercon World Mystery Convention.
23) In 2016, one hundred years after Agatha Christie wrote her first detective story, the Royal Mail released six stamps in her honour.
24) In 2020, Christie was commemorated on a £2 coin by the Royal Mint for the first time to mark the centenary of her first novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles.
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