Ian Fleming's James Bond: Annotations and Chronologies for Ian Fleming's Bond Stories

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AuthorHouse, 2006 - Fiction - 476 pages
****Updated and expanded including many illustrations by George Almond. Plus clearer translations of foreign terms. Ian Fleming's James Bond: Annotations and Chronologies for Ian Fleming's Bond Stories officially approved by Ian Fleming Publications Ltd (formerly Glidrose), with a Preface by Andrew Lycett and Forewords by Zoë Watkins, Publishing Manager, Ian Fleming Publications Ltd.; Raymond Benson, author of The James Bond Bedside Companion, six original 007 novels, and numerous non-Bond novels. This book is the result of analysis of each of Fleming's James Bond novels. Within are glossaries of applicable terminology and references with detailed chronologies of events including annotations. Detailed chronologies of events are represented at a day-of-week, month, day, year, and time-of-day level. Glossaries contain translations of foreign terms, annotations, and other information of interest such as detailed information on the origin of Saramanga's name (The Man with the Golden Gun). Maps have been created for many of the novels along with in-depth information concerning specific topics such as, the Moonraker bridge game and the Goldfinger golf game. In many instances, monetary amounts have been converted to their 2001 purchasing power equivalent. Differences found between published versions and the original Fleming manuscripts archived at Indiana University's Lilly Library have been noted.
 

Contents

CASINO ROYALE
47
LIVE AND LET DJE
74
GLOSSARY FOR MQONRAKER
93
THE DETAILED CHRONOLOGY OF MQONRAKER
105
DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
137
FROMJiussiA rmuyE
168
DOCTOR NO
204
GLOSSARY FOR GOLDFINGER
226
THE HILDEBRAND RARITY
274
FOR YQmEYES ONLY
282
GLOSSARY FOR OCTOPUSSY
328
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
339
QJjHmMAJOTXS NEW YQRK
355
GLOSSARY FOR YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
393
Sayonara to James Bond by Richard Hughes
411
THE DETAILED CHRONOLOGY OF YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
417

THE DETAILED CHRONOLOGY OF GOLDFINGER
243
A Closer Look at Goldfinger Golf Game Wednesday May 22 1957
255
ARJSJCO
266
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
426
A CHRONOLOGY OF DEATHS
445
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
455

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