- Bond, James (Fictitious character), Fiction, thrillers, espionage, Bond, james (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction
The life of secret agent James Bond has begun to fall into a pattern that threatens complacency... until the sunny afternoon when M is kidnapped. The action ricochets across the globe to a volcanic Greek island, where Colonel Sun Liang-tan of the People's Liberation Army of China collaborates with an ex-Nazi atrocity expert in a world-menacing conspiracy.
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Classical in form, resolved, plot-driven and epic.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Kingsley Amis
- First published
- 1968
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape Ltd., Pan, Titan Books
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780786120765
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KingsleyAmis, the author of *Lucky Jim*, was born in the south of London in 1922. His first interest in literature was in the field of poetry. At the age of eleven he was writing verse, at the university he was one of the editors of *Oxford Poetry 1949*, and his own poetry has been published in two books: *A Frame of Mind* and *A Case of Samples*. His name is often to be seen in British newspapers and magazines as the writer of articles and reviews. Lucky Jim, published in 1954, was Amis's first novel. It was something so different, so fresh and so brilliantly clever that the critics welcomed it with excitement. Kingsley Amis is a university lecturer in English. In Lucky Jim he takes us into
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