[And Then There Were None // Ten Little Indians]
Year:
1939
Type:
Public:
Publisher:
HarperCollins
Year of publication:
2011
Pages:
320
Moral assessment:
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
Literary quality:
Recommendable:
Transmits values:
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Ideas that contradict Church teaching:
The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators
The premise is simple: ten people, all of them murderers, are in a hotel on on an isolated island. One by one, they all die – who is the murderer?
Dame Agatha Christie was born in 1890 in Torquay, England, and died in 1976. Working as a dispenser of medicines in the First World War gave her a deep knowledge of poisons. Her marriage broke up in 1926 and she re-married. In all, she wrote 66 detective novels. Hugely popular, easy to read, and ingenious at misdirecting the reader. However, the written style is undistinguished and there is no development of character except with her famous detectives.
C.C. (U.K., 2016)