Bibliograph

The book of spies, an anthology of literary espionage, edited and with an introduction by Alan Furst

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The book of spies, an anthology of literary espionage, edited and with an introduction by Alan Furst

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

The book of spies

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

297116520

Responsibility statement

edited and with an introduction by Alan Furst

Sub title

an anthology of literary espionage

Summary

These are not just stories of professional intelligence officers. We meet diplomats, political police, agents provocateurs, secret operatives, resistance fighters, and assassins -- players in the Great Game, or victims of the Cold War. The Book of spies brings us the aristocratic intrigues of The scarlet pimpernel, in which French émigrés duel with Robespierre's secret service; the savage political realities of the 1930s in Eric Ambler's classic A coffin for Dimitrios; the ordinary citizens (well, almost) of John le Carré's The Russia House, who are drawn into Cold War spy games; and the 1950s Vietnam of Graham Greene's The quiet American, with its portrait of American idealism and duplicity

Table Of Contents

Eric Ambler, from A coffin for Dimitrios -- Anthony Burgess, from Tremor of intent -- Joseph Conrad, from Under western eyes -- Maxim Gorky, from The spy -- Graham Greene, from The quiet American -- John Le Carré, from The Russia House -- W. Somerset Maugham, from Ashenden -- Charles McCarry, from The tears of autumn -- Baroness Orczy, from The scarlet pimpernel -- John Steinbeck, from The moon is down -- Rebecca West, from The birds fall down

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