Hello everybody!
As you've just read, the book we are going to read this sememster for the FCE English class is going to be "And then there were none", by Agatha Christie.
In this novel, ten people who had been complicit in the death(s) of other human beings but either escaped notice or were not subject to legal sanction, are tricked or lured into coming to an island under different pretenses, comprising various different sorts of reasons, mainly for either employment or, for the better off, an unexpected vacation or holiday. Although they are the only people on the island, and cannot escape due to the distance from the mainland and the inclement weather, each guest is killed in a manner seeming to parallel the deaths enumerated in the nursery rhyme.
It is Christie's best-selling novel with 100 million sales to date, making it the world's best-selling mystery ever, and one of the
best-selling books of all time. (Publications International lists it as 7th best-selling.) The novel has been made into several films and adapted for radio.
It is a fantastic (and also adictive) book that I'm sure you'll enjoy a lot.
For our next class, I would like you to read the first chapter of the novel, until everybody gets to the house. Don't be dissapointed by the introduction, it is a little bit boring, but essential to understand the rest of the book.
Here is the link to the book:
https://archive.org/details/AndThenThereWereNone_726On the left bar, click on the button that says Pdf (or the format you like most) and it will instantly start downloading the file. If you have an e-book, I reccomend you download the epub version of the file.
