While the Light Lasts (1997)
“To those familiar with the works of Sir Alfred Lord Tennyson, Arden’s true identity will not have come as a surprise.
Tennyson was among Christie’s favourite poets, together with Yeats and T. S. Eliot, and his Enoch Arden also inspired the Poirot novel Taken at the Flood (1948). The plot of ‘While the Light Lasts’ was later used to greater effect as part of Giant’s Bread (1930), the first of her six novels written under the pseudonym of Mary Westmacott. Although of less interest to many than he...r detective fiction, the Westmacott novels are generally considered to provide a commentary of sorts on some of the events of Christie’s own life, a sort of parallel autobiography.MoreLess
Tennyson was among Christie’s favourite poets, together with Yeats and T. S. Eliot, and his Enoch Arden also inspired the Poirot novel Taken at the Flood (1948). The plot of ‘While the Light Lasts’ was later used to greater effect as part of Giant’s Bread (1930), the first of her six novels written under the pseudonym of Mary Westmacott. Although of less interest to many than he...r detective fiction, the Westmacott novels are generally considered to provide a commentary of sorts on some of the events of Christie’s own life, a sort of parallel autobiography.MoreLess
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