Complete Works of Ian Fleming

by Ian Fleming

Former naval intelligence officer Ian Fleming achieved great fame for his James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming’s wartime service and his career as a journalist provided much valuable material his 007 novels, which are highly regarded for their development of the thriller genre in literature. This comprehensive eBook presents Fleming’s complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Fleming’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts
* All 12 novels, with individual contents tables
* Includes the complete James Bond short stories
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories
* Includes Fleming’s seminal children’s classic, THE MAGICAL CAR
* Fleming’s non-fiction books
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres

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The Novels
CASINO ROYALE
LIVE AND LET DIE
MOONRAKER
DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
FROM RUSSIA, WITH LOVE
DR. NO
GOLDFINGER
THUNDERBALL
THE SPY WHO LOVED ME
ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN

The Short Story Collections
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
OCTOPUSSY AND THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS
MISCELLANEOUS STORIES

The Short Stories
LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

The Children’s Book
THE MAGICAL CAR

The Non-Fiction
THE DIAMOND SMUGGLERS
THRILLING CITIES
NEWSPAPER PIECES

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3204 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 14, 2016

About the author

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Ian Lancaster Fleming was an English writer, best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., and his father was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Henley from 1910 until his death on the Western Front in 1917. Educated at Eton, Sandhurst, and, briefly, the universities of Munich and Geneva, Fleming moved through several jobs before he started writing.
While working for Britain's Naval Intelligence Division during the Second World War, Fleming was involved in planning Operation Goldeneye and in the planning and oversight of two intelligence units: 30 Assault Unit and T-Force. He drew from his wartime service and his career as a journalist for much of the background, detail, and depth of his James Bond novels.
Fleming wrote his first Bond novel, Casino Royale, in 1952, at age 44. It was a success, and three print runs were commissioned to meet the demand. Eleven Bond novels and two collections of short stories followed between 1953 and 1966. The novels centre around James Bond, an officer in the Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6. Bond is also known by his code number, 007, and was a commander in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. The Bond stories rank among the best-selling series of fictional books of all time, having sold over 100 million copies worldwide. Fleming also wrote the children's story Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang and two works of non-fiction. In 2008, The Times ranked Fleming 14th on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
Fleming was married to Ann Fleming. She had divorced her husband, the 2nd Viscount Rothermere, because of her affair with the author. Fleming and Ann had a son, Caspar. Fleming was a heavy smoker and drinker for most of his life and succumbed to heart disease in 1964 at the age of 56. Two of his James Bond books were published posthumously; other writers have since produced Bond novels. Fleming's creation has appeared in film twenty-seven times, portrayed by six actors in the official film series.