Agatha Christie, Author, Charles Osborne, Author, Charles Osborne, Adapted by St. Martin's Press $23.95 (210p) ISBN 978-0-312-24262-6
As he did with Black Coffee (1998), Osborne has taken one of Christie's original play scripts and turned it into a (slight) novel. For those who can't see the play in production or who find a script dull or difficult reading, Osborne's adaptation...
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Agatha Christie, Author, Charles Osborne, Author, Charles Osborne, Adapted by St. Martin's Press $22.95 (221p) ISBN 978-0-312-19241-9
Christie biographer Osborne's adaptation of the grande dame's 1930 play has been blessed by the Christie estate and heartily endorsed by her grandson Michael Prichard. It's a classic ""someone in this room is the murderer"" tale set in 1934....
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Charles Osborne, Adapted by, Agatha Christie, Author, Charles Osborne, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-26650-9
Osborne completes his homage to Christie with this third and final adaptation of an original Christie play, following Black Coffee (1998) and The Unexpected Guest (1999). Though the play was written in 1954, the story suffers little from the passage
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Charles Osborne, Author . St. Martin's $25.95 (421p) ISBN 978-0-312-28130-4
Though she has been dead for 25 years, was fond of self-deprecating comments ("What I'm writing is meant to be entertainment") and many of her later books suffered from faults that would have derailed the career of a lesser author,...
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Charles Osborne, Author Fromm International $11.95 (360p) ISBN 978-0-88064-106-7
This is a ``lively'' account of the personality and achievements of a dynamic, imperious, fanatically honest cultural hero. PW predicted that Osborne's biography, which is based largely on letters to and from the 19th century composer, ``will take...
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Charles Osborne, Author Alfred A. Knopf $48 (209p) ISBN 978-0-394-54111-2
For the music lover who wants a straightforward biography of Franz Schubert, without complicated technical or psychological analyses, this will be useful. Drawing heavily on Otto Erich Deutsch's ""documentary biography'' as well as on Schubert's own
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Charles Osborne, Author Alfred A. Knopf $22.95 (360p) ISBN 978-0-394-54110-5
Author of The Complete Operas of Verdi, Osborne here assesses Verdi's career as a practical man of the theater. Not comparable to Julian Budden's massive three-volume study or to Warren Weaver's collection of documents, it is nevertheless a lively,...
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Charles Osborne, Author M. Evans and Company $14.95 (344p) ISBN 978-0-87131-788-9
Drawing on his own long-standing friendship with Auden, Osborne's 1979 biography attempts to reveal the private self behind one of England's most admired 20th-century poets. (Nov.)
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