From Russia With Love

Afbeeldingen

Artikel vergelijken

  • Engels
  • Paperback
  • 9780141187600
  • 03 juni 2004
  • 272 pagina's
Alle productspecificaties

Ian Fleming

Ian Fleming werd geboren op 28 mei 1908 in Londen. Hij bezocht Eton College en na een korte periode op de beroemde Royal Military Academy van Sandhurst trad hij in dienst van het persbureau Reuters. Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog werkte Fleming voor de marine-inlichtingendienst, waar hij van dichtbij kennismaakte met de spionagewereld die hij in zijn James Bond-boeken zou vereeuwigen. Ian Fleming overleed in 1964.

Samenvatting

Bond does not himself feature until quite late in this novel - the opening chapters, one of Fleming's most amazing fantasies, creates the nightmare world of SMERSH - the Russian counter-spy organisation, its sickeningly foul section head Rosa Klebb and her top assassin Grant. When the action shifts to Istanbul and Klebb's plot to destroy the unsuspecting Bond one of the most brilliant chase sequences in fiction (unrivalled even by Buchan or Greene) unfolds. One of the defining books of the Cold War (and one of President Kennedy's favourite books) From Russia with Love is perhaps even more enjoyable to read now than when it first became a huge international bestseller.

Productspecificaties

Inhoud

Taal
en
Bindwijze
Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
03 juni 2004
Aantal pagina's
272
Illustraties
Nee

Betrokkenen

Hoofdauteur
Ian Fleming
Hoofduitgeverij
Penguin Books Ltd

Vertaling

Eerste Vertaler
Simon Vance

Overige kenmerken

Editie
New ed
Extra groot lettertype
Nee
Studieboek
Nee
Verpakking breedte
129 mm
Verpakking hoogte
16 mm
Verpakking lengte
198 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht
206 g

EAN

EAN
9780141187600

Je vindt dit artikel in

Taal
Engels
Boek, ebook of luisterboek?
Boek
Beschikbaarheid
Leverbaar
Studieboek of algemeen
Algemene boeken

Reviews

1 review
0
1
0
0
0
  • Homage to Eric Ambler

    My latest haul from the library included this 1957 title and “The Mask of Dimitrios” (1939) by Eric Ambler. Both books were freshly (2015 ) translated into my mother tongue. Read it as a teenager in cheap paperback form when school libraries banned authors like Ian Fleming and Georges Simenon. As a book, it is not as thrilling as e.g. “Marathon Man” or “Kolymsky Heights”, younger spy thrillers, but still quite good reading matter today against a backdrop of mounting frustration about New Russia.
    James Bond on paper and on screen differ. Writers endow characters with thoughts, the ability to read and far more speech than screenwriters and film directors can visualize. In this book, James Bond is more naive than on screen and he even reads books. On his slow flight from London to Istanbul, later in his hotel, Bond is immersed in “The Mask…”, regarded by experts like Alfred Hitchcock, Graham Greene and John Le Carré as an absolute masterpiece.
    This fifth Bond adventure is a true homage to Eric Ambler and “The Mask…”. The Orient-Express running between Paris and Istanbul plays a role in both books. So is the occasional mention of roses, having titled chapters and exactly the same length. Most of all, the Dimitrios character, a faceless, rootless international criminal, must have inspired Ian Fleming hugely.
    Political correctness was invented long after 1957. Here, Ian Fleming’s good guys are blue-eyed, the bad ones are caricatures with Soviet or Balkan roots, whilst France with its communist labor unions, is another suspect nation… Otherwise, a compelling plot, some excellent, some lesser scenes, and not too many brand names. It has not aged much, except re devices and transport. Everyone except James Bond in his prestigious Chelsea street has this new contraption called a television. Flying in 1957 happened 50% (s)lower than today. And the Orient-Express is history.
    The closing chapters have plenty of loose ends. The finish is a cliff hanger.

    Vond je dit een nuttige review?
    0
    0

Prijsinformatie en bestellen

De prijs van dit product is 31 euro en 02 cent. Dit is een tweedehands product.
Alleen tweedehands
Goed
Ref8156
1 - 2 weken
Verkoop door BAY EXPRESS
8,4
  • Bestellen en betalen via bol
  • Prijs inclusief verzendkosten, verstuurd door BAY EXPRESS
  • 30 dagen bedenktijd en gratis retourneren

Alle bindwijzen en edities (10)

  • 22,99
    Nog niet verschenen - reserveer een exemplaar
  • 29,49
    1 - 2 weken Tooltip

  • 2010
    28,45
    1 - 2 weken Tooltip

  • 2004
    60,73
    1 - 2 weken Tooltip
  • 31,02
    1 - 2 weken Tooltip
  • 29,48
    1 - 2 weken Tooltip
  • 29,49
    1 - 2 weken Tooltip
  • 39,00
    Op voorraad. Voor 15:00 uur besteld, dinsdag in huis Tooltip
  • 117,78
    1 - 2 weken Tooltip
  • 19,95
    Op voorraad. Voor 15:00 uur besteld, dinsdag in huis Tooltip