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What happened to 10 little Indians (or then there were none). I guess they changed the title for political correctness, unless I'm missing something? In any c
by dannylandau 9y ago
What happened to 10 little Indians (or then there were none). I guess they changed the title for political correctness, unless I'm missing something?
In any case, greatest mystery novel of all time.
- lisper 9y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16547452 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16547452
- dang 9y agoAlso the best selling, proving that the mass market sometimes gets art right. It's Agatha at her most brilliant, ruthless not only in story but in style. The English is as hard and bare as possible. IIRC it's almost all dialog and minimal dialog at that. But you don't notice because the story is such a drug. It stands apart from her other books by having no familiar characters and being completely sealed. A perfect idea, perfectly executed. I wonder if Nabokov ever read it.
- ghaff 9y agoIt was released in the US as And Then There Were None because the original UK title was, shall we say, significantly more offensive to a US audience than Ten Little Indians would have been. It's not exactly a case of "political correctness." Later, it went through various renaming iterations in the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Then_There_Were_None https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Then_There_Were_None