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The James Bond Dossier
''The James Bond Dossier'' (1965), by Kingsley Amis, is a critical analysis of the James Bond novels. Amis dedicated the book to friend and background collaborator, the poet and historian Robert Conquest. Later, after Ian Fleming's death, Amis was commissioned as the first continuation novelist for the James Bond novel series, writing ''Colonel Sun'' (1968) under the pseudonym Robert Markham. ''The James Bond Dossier'' was the first, formal, literary study of the James Bond character. More recent studies of Fleming's secret agent and his world include ''The Politics of James Bond: From Fleming's Novels to the Big Screen'' (2001), by the historian Jeremy Black. History Written at the Bond-mania's zenith in the 1960s, ''The James Bond Dossier'' is the first, thorough, albeit tongue-in-cheek, literary analysis of Ian Fleming's strengths and weaknesses as a thriller-writer. As a mainstream novelist, Amis respected the Bond novels, especially their commercial success, believing t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Octopussy And The Living Daylights
''Octopussy and The Living Daylights'' (sometimes published as ''Octopussy'') is the 14th and final James Bond book written by Ian Fleming in the Bond series. The book is a collection of short stories published posthumously in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape on 23 June 1966. The book originally contained two stories, "Octopussy" and "The Living Daylights", with subsequent editions also including "The Property of a Lady" and then " 007 in New York". The stories were first published in different publications, with "Octopussy" first serialised in the ''Daily Express'' in October 1965. "The Living Daylights" had first appeared in ''The Sunday Times'' on 4 February 1962; "The Property of a Lady" was commissioned by Sotheby's for the 1963 edition of their journal, ''The Ivory Hammer''; while "007 in New York" first appeared in the ''New York Herald Tribune'' in October 1963. The two original stories, "Octopussy" and "The Living Daylights", were both adapted for publication in c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Books By Kingsley Amis
A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a book cover, cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is ''codex'' (plural, ''codices''). In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a Recto, leaf and each side of a leaf is a page (paper), page. As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it takes a considerable investment of time to compose and still considered as an investment of time to read. In a restricted sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer composition, a usage reflecting that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on several scrolls and each scroll had to be identified by the book it contained. Each part of Arist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
