Download or read book Agatha Christie: Power and Illusion written by R.A. York and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study shows how she sought to reconcile her attachment to the Victorian past with her recognition of a new society that undermined established order and in doing so gave more opportunities to women, confused class-boundaries, extended tolerance, allowed the cult of pleasure and self-assertion and revealed the ambiguities of respectability.