Fimela.com, Jakarta Novel yang sebanarnya memiliki judul asli 10 Anak Negro ini merupakan karya terbesar dan tersulit bagi penulis Agatha Christie. Untuk versi Amerikanya, diterjemahkan jadi Lalu Semuanya Lenyap. Di Indonesia sendiri novel ini sudah diterjemahkan dan diterbitkan oleh Gramedia Pustaka Utama dengan total 296 halaman.
Singkatnya, And Then There Were None berkisah tentang 10 orang dengan latar belakang yang berbeda, mereka diundang ke sebuah rumah di Pulau Negro untuk berlibur. Masing-masing memiliki rahasia yang disembunyikan dengan rapat sampai liburan di Pulau Negro itu membuka semuanya dan menjadikan rumah tersebut sebagai tempat penghakiman.
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Meskipun bergenre misteri, namun novel ini memiliki sejumlah kutipan yang sayang jika kamu lewatkan. Untuk itu, berikut Fimela.com telah merangkum 30 kutipan terbaik novel And Then There Were None karya Agathe Christie. Dilansir dari goodreads.com, simak semua kutipannya di bawah ini.
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Kutipan Novel And Then There Were None Bagian I
1. “In the midst of life, we are in death.”― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
2. “But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.”― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
3. “Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.”― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
4. “Unpleasant to feel that people were discussing you”― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
5. “...You can't save someone who doesn't want to be saved.”― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
6. “This is no time for refusing to look facts in the face.”― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
7. “Women are fiends-absolute fiends.”― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
8. “It’s only in books people carry revolvers around as a matter of course.”― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
9. “A slightly uncommon condition of the some-long-word. Nothing at all serious, but it just needs putting right. A simple treatment.”― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
10. “One takes things for granted too much," said Emily Brent.”― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
Kutipan Novel And Then There Were None Bagian II
11. “The rain was pouring down again. The wind came in fitful gusts. The depressing sound of the pattering rain nearly drove them mad. By”― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
12. “Of course often those places went very cheap - islands didn't suit everybody. They thought the idea was romantic but when they came to live there they realised the disadvantages and were only too glad to sell.”― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
13. “But afterwards you went on remembering.”― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
14. “The innocent must not suffer.”― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
15. “Success had its penalties.”― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
16. “When a man's neck's in danger, he doesn't stop to think too much about sentiment.”― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
17. “But self-preservation’s a man’s first duty. And natives don’t mind dying, you know. They don’t feel about it as Europeans do.”― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
18. “It‘s true, isn‘t it? We‘re all waiting for the end.”― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
19. “move, hoping to save itself by its immobility.”― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
20. “Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any further... you've got to the end of things.”― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
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Kutipan Novel And Then There Were None Bagian III
21. “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
22. “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
23. “Very few of us are what we seem.”― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
24. “The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
25. “If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.”― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
26. “Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.”― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
27. “Providence leaves the work of conviction and chastisement to us mortals—and the process is often fraught with difficulties. There are no short cuts.”― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
28. “No, my death should take place in a blaze of excitement. I would live before I died.”― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
29. “You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
30. “One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.”― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None