Wireless: A Short Story
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Previously published in the print anthology The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories.
Wealthy Mrs. Harter has a heart condition. Her nephew, Charles, who lives with her, buys her a radio for amusement, but strange messages come from it. Could her dead husband really be sending her messages? And why is he warning that her life is in danger?
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A strong - but very sad - ending of Wiesels trilogy (Night, Dawn, Day). A Holocaust-survivor reflects about his life as he is in the hospital trying to recover from a car-accident that nearly killed him. Three persons try to help him - a doctor, his fiance/lover/friend and a hungarian painter. And we get glimpses of his past experiences/memories/dreams. He reflects about life and death, the distant silent God, his inability to love, his desire to die, the emptiness of life - his soul died in the nazi-camps - is it at all possible for him to return to life and to love again? The question is a hard one, and by the end of the book there is mostly despair - the tears in the end...a lament? A turning point?
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Could I have found meaning in my life as a survivor of the Holocaust? More and more I have to wonder. "The Accident" makes me wonder what I would need to live again after such horrors. Very moving.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I Didn't like his writing style to begin with in Night, yet it still was a good book. Then he tries fiction and really takes the cake with failure. I just didn't think Weisel really knew what to write when he put this book together. He tries to repeat lines to make it seem enforcing, but only comes off trying to make a another book with tons of filler. I know I use to write like him in 6th grade. He's not an author in my view, but a raconteur of past experiences. That is why this book fails in its attempt at provoking any kind of realism or manifest emotions.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The worst book in the trilogy. No need to rehash how much I disliked it, or its predecessor.He could have done better. However I plan to re-read it, eventually.
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Wireless - Agatha Christie
Contents
Wireless
About the Author
The Agatha Christie Collection
Copyright
About the Publisher
WIRELESS
Above all, avoid worry and excitement," said Dr. Meynell, in the comfortable fashion affected by doctors.
Mrs. Harter, as is often the case with people hearing these soothing but meaningless words, seemed more doubtful than relieved.
There is a certain cardiac weakness,
continued the doctor fluently, "but nothing to be alarmed about. I can assure you of that.
All the same,
he added, it might be as well to have a lift installed. Eh? What about it?
Mrs. Harter looked worried.
Dr. Meynell, on the contrary, looked pleased with himself. The reason he liked attending rich patients rather than poor ones was that he could exercise his active imagination in prescribing for their ailments.
Yes, a lift,
said Dr. Meynell, trying to think of something else even more dashing—and failing. Then we shall avoid all undue exertion. Daily exercise on the level on a fine day, but avoid walking up hills. And above all,
he added happily, plenty of distraction for the mind. Don’t dwell on your health.
To the old lady’s nephew, Charles Ridgeway, the doctor was slightly more explicit.
Do not misunderstand me,
he said. Your aunt may live for years, probably will. At the same time shock or overexertion might carry her off like that!
He snapped his fingers. "She must lead a very quiet life. No exertion. No fatigue. But, of course, she must not be allowed to brood. She must be kept cheerful and the mind