'my Name's Bond...': An Anthology from the Fiction of Ian Fleming - Hardcover

Fleming, Ian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0713994754 ISBN 13: 9780713994759

Publisher: Allen Lane, 2000

Synopsis

'She looked sharply up at him. "And who might you be?" "My name's Bond, James Bond."' This book celebrates the greatest of all post-war British fictional icons. For too long the films of the Bond novels have overshadowed their literary source - the bizarre, baroque imagination of Ian Fleming. Full rein is given in this anthology to Fleming's wonderful creations - the magically deranged villains, their appalling sidekicks and their surreal lairs, from Dr No's guano island to Blofeld's Garden of Death. Fleming emerges too from this book as a remarkable writer on nature (albeit nature of a purely malevolent variety) and as an inventor of extraordinarily imagined set pieces - the source of the films' enormous success.

About this title

Synopsis:

This book celebrates the greatest of all postwar British fictional icons. For too long the Bond films have overshadowed their literary source - the bizarre, baroque world of Ian Fleming. Full rein is given in this anthology to Fleming's wonderful creations - the deranged villains, their horrifying associates and their surreal lairs; from Dr. No's guano island to Blofeld's Garden of Death. Full attention to is paid to the girls, cars, food, drink and cigarettes consumed by the books' brutal, resourceful hero. From the first Bond novel, "Casino Royale" to the last to be fully finished, "You Only Live Twice", there is an extraordinary zest and ingenuity to Fleming's imagination and "My Name's Bond..." allows readers to see perhaps as never before the author's remarkable abilities. He was, above all, a creator of great set pieces and it is these that are surely at the root of the films' great and lasting success.

About the Author:

Ian Fleming (1908-1964) wrote CASINO ROYALE aged 42 and followed it with a further eleven Bond novels which have to date sold about 40 million copies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0713994754
• ISBN 13: 9780713994759
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Winder Simon