Casino Royale (Italian Edition)

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James Bond viene inviato in missione a Royale-les-Eaux, dove dovrà intercettare un uomo che lavora per la SMERSH, la sinistra organizzazione sovietica che minaccia la libertà in occidente. Il piano consiste nel mandarlo in bancarotta sconfiggendolo al tavolo del baccarà, ma non tutto va come previsto e la fortuna sembra poter voltare le spalle all’agente 007! Casino Royale, il romanzo con cui Ian Flemming ha fatto il suo debutto letterario e che presenta per la prima volta al mondo l’agente segreto James Bond, diventa un’elegante graphic novel grazie al lavoro dello scrittore Van Jensen e del disegnatore Dennis Calero.

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ISBN-13:	9788891249906
Publisher:	Panini Spa - Socio Unico
Publication date:	07/17/2019
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	97 MB
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Language:	Italian

About the Author

Jason Haslam is Professor of English at Dalhousie University. Julia M. Wright, FRSC is Professor of English and University Research Professor at Dalhousie University.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Ian Fleming: His Life and Times
A Note on the Text

Casino Royale

Appendix A: Other Works by Ian Fleming

1. From “Foreign News,” The Kemsley Manual of Journalism (1950)
2. “Mudscape with Figures,” Spectator (5 August 1955)
3. From The Diamond Smugglers (1957)
4. “If I Were Prime Minister,” Spectator (9 October 1959)
5. “For Your Eyes Only” (1960)
6. “Quantum of Solace” (1960)
7. “Gary Powers and the Big Lie,” Sunday Times (11 March 1962)
8. “How to Write a Thriller,” Show (August 1962)

Appendix B: Tales of International Intrigue before Bond

1. From Erskine Childers, The Riddle of the Sands (1903, c. 1913)
2. Baroness Orczy, “The Fate of the ‘Artemis,’” Royal Magazine (November 1904)
3. From W. Somerset Maugham, Ashenden, or the British Agent (1928)
4. From Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon (1930, 1931)

Appendix C: Secret Intelligence: Some Historical Documents

1. D.C. Stapleton to Orme Sargent, Top Secret Letter (23 December 1947)
2. Orme Sargent, Top Secret Memo (19 October 1948)
3. House of Commons, “Foreign Service (Missing Officials),” Hansard (11 June 1951)
4. From Stanley Moss, “Christine the Brave: Bullets and Bluff with the Maquis,” Picture Post (27 September 1952)

Works Cited and Select Bibliography

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Editorial Reviews

Here Bond is not the charming, witty sophisticate that Sean Connery, Roger Moore and other actors have made him. Casino Royale is noticeably lacking in humor, and Bond is equally noticeably cold and ruthless, yet at the same time a romantic susceptible to love's pangs. In fact, the novel is as much a love story - with a sad ending - as an espionage thriller. — Roger K. Miller

The Denver Post

The allure of James Bond was best described by Raymond Chandler, who insisted that 007 is "what every man would like to be and what every woman would like to have between her sheets." Who can argue with that? This month marks the 40th anniversary of the film release of Dr. No, which was the first Bond adventure to make the big screen, and two big coffee-table books are being published to honor the occasion (LJ 10/1/02, p. 96). Shockingly, Fleming's original novels have gone out of print, but Penguin here reproduces a trio of the British secret agent's early outings, released in 1952, 1958, and 1959, respectively, sporting stylish cover art. These stories were racy for the nifty Fifties but are quite tame by today's standards. Still, they can be fun. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

...The first part of the book is a brilliant novelette in itself, dealing with the unlikely but imaginitive plot to ruin a Communist agent by gambling against him for high stakes...But then he decides to pad out the book to novel length and leads the weary reader through a set of tough cliches to an ending which surprises no one save operative 007... Books of the Century, New York Times review April 1954

B Wright

Love him or hate him, James Bond remains relevant to some of the biggest debates of the times. This fine edition takes us to the source: the first Bond novel. Jason Haslam and Julia Wright provide the critical and historical tools to understand how Ian Fleming created what they call ‘rich registers’ of culture. From parsing his attention to grated boiled egg for what it suggests about post-war rationing to tracing his conversion of global politics and real-world documents of espionage into sensate narrative to placing his novel within a wider range of his own writings and several literary genres, the editors tease out layers and point to connections with depth, precision, and wit.” — Christine Bold, University of Guelph

“Some seven decades on, the figure of James Bond is as firmly embedded in popular culture as Sherlock Holmes or Dracula. This critical edition gives us the material we need to think through the many iterations of Bond, and the complexly nuanced world in which he moves in the novels. Immaculately researched and full of the kind of contextual detail needed for both those new to Bond and old friends to make sense of the nodes of masculinity, empire and sexuality that swirl around the ultimate spy, this is the edition for which we have been waiting.” — Stacy Gillis, Newcastle University

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