Modesti Blejz 5

МОДЕСТИ БЛЕЈЗ #5

by Peter O'Donnell, Enrique Badía Romero (Illustrator)

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Nemojte brinuti, peta knjiga biblioteke „Modesti Blejz“ pokriva sva vaša interesovanja, a pritom nas kroz čitav ovaj spektar neobičnih situacija i još neobičnijih izleta dvoje protagonista vodi nikad sigurnija spisateljska O’Donelova ruka i razigrani Romerov crtež. Karakter i doslednost naših Modesti i Vilija, pred možda nikad većom opasnošću po život, dok im o glavi rade i neki stari neprijatelji, i ovog puta će se pokazati kao neprocenjivo blago i poruka svim čitaocima koji decenijama prate svojevrsnu kulturološku ikonu. Uz to, imaćete priliku da otkrijete kako je Modesti svojim stavom i pristupom životu i prijateljima postala to što jeste, i kako je fizička spremnost morala biti vazda praćena i onom duhovnom, tako retkom u modernom svetu.

Kako i priliči našoj biblioteci, sladokusci između korica mogu naći i nove intervjue sa autorima, analize izbačenih kadrova, analitičke tekstove i iscrpnu hronologiju prethodnih objavljivanja epizoda kod nas.

#33 The Greenwood Maid (Дама из Гринвуда)
#34 Тhose About to Die (Они који ће умрети)
#35 The Inka Trail (Трагом Инка)
#36 The Vanishing Dollybirds (Нестале лепотице)
#37 The Junk Man (Велика тројка)
#38 Death Trap (Смртоносна замка)
#39 Idаho George (Ајдахо Џорџ)
#40 Golden Frog (Златна жаба)

276 pages, Hardcover

Published March 1, 2024

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.

Peter O'Donnell also wrote as Madeleine Brent.

http://www.cs.umu.se/~kenth/modesty.html
is an excellent resource on this author.

To help keep the novels and the adventure strip collections separate, here's some info about the Modesty Blaise works.

In 1963, O'Donnell began his 38-year run as writer of the Modesty Blaise adventure story strip, which appeared six days a week in English and Scottish newspapers. He retired the strip in 2001.

Each strip story took 18-20 weeks to complete. Several publishers over the years have attempted to collect these stories in large softcovers. Titan Publishing is currently in the process of bringing them all out in large-format softcover, with 2-3 stories in each books. These are called "graphic novels" in the Goodreads title.

Meanwhile, during those 38 years, O'Donnell also wrote 13 books about Modesty Blaise: 11 novels and 2 short story/novella collections. These stories are not related to the strip stories; they are not novelizations of strip stories. They are entirely new, though the characters and "lives" are the same. These have been labeled "series #0".

There is a large article on Peter O'Donnell on Wikipedia, with a complete bibliography.

Reviews

[Dragan Nanic · Rating 5 out of 5]

Priče u ovom tomu su posebno nadahnute. I O'Donel i Romero su na vrhuncu.