Originally released in June 2004, the first
round of Modern Classics featured ten of Fleming's
novels. On October 5th 2006, the novels that were missed
first time around were added to complete the collection: For
Your Eyes Only, The
Spy Who Loved Me, The
Man with the Golden Gun and Octopussy & The
Living Daylights.
Following the success of its Fleming omnibuses, Penguin
Modern Classics are now publishing four more novels individually,
celebrating Fleming's brilliant imagination and a group
of books which have kept their panache but to modern readers
now also speak volumes about a post-War and increasingly
post-Empire country. There can be no more potent figure in post-War British
fiction than Ian Fleming's James Bond. For fifty years,
for better or worse, he has created a sense of heroism
which has shaped (or warped) the male mind to a degree
that is impossible to imagine British self-identity without
it.
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here to view cover art of the previous 10 Modern Classics
released in June 2004
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