Jules Verne in Eighty Days" (1873). Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation is markedly different in Anglophone regions, where he has often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books, largely because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels are often reprinted. Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, ranking between Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare. He has sometimes been called the "Father of Science Fiction", a
Agatha Christie bibliography at March 2018, was still running; in 2009 the London run exceeded 25,000 performances. In September 2015 a public vote identified "And Then There Were None"—originally published in 1939 under the name "Ten Little Niggers"—as the public's favourite Christie novel; the book was the writer's favourite, and the one she found most difficult to write. In September 1930 Christie married the archaeologist Max Mallowan. The pair travelled frequently on archaeological expeditions and she used the experiences as a basis for some plots, including "Murder on the Orient Express" (1934), "Murder in Mesopotamia" (1936) and "Death on the Nile" (1937). She