Ian Fleming Summary

The name is Bond, James Bond, that highbrow agent of the British secret service, as suave and stalwart as he is sex-charged, a cold-hearted holder of his government's license to kill. Since his creati... Read more

Ian Fleming is best known as the creator of James Bond (Agent 007). He was also, however, a book collector who, with the guidance of bookseller Percy Muir, assembled a library of more than one thousan... Read more

Critical Essay by Bernice Larson Webb The legendary Teutonic superman Beowulf would seem to have a counterpart today in the teenagers' culture hero James Bond, secret agent 007…. [An] e... Read more

Critical Essay by Leroy L. Panek The perspective given by eighty-odd years of spy novels shows Ian Fleming to be a minor writer who, himself, did little to advance the form. Fleming possessed only me... Read more

Critical Essay by Martin Dodsworth Mr Bergonzi's extremely interesting essay … 'The Case of Mr Fleming' [see excerpt above] raises two important points about the examinati... Read more

Critical Essay by Robert Hatch Fleming's tradition is sub-literary. Since 1954 he has written novels at the rate of one-and-a-half a year; you can read them without undue strain at the rate of... Read more