The book of spies : an anthology of literary espionage / edited and with an introduction by Alan Furst.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Furst, Alan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spy stories, English.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xi, 374 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

2003 Modern Library edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Modern Library, [2003]

Summary:

Based on the prodigious research of one its most talented and intelligent practitioners, FurstUs new anthology creates a canon of espionage as addictively readable as it is robustly literary. Writers include Eric Ambler, Joseph Conrad, John le Carr, and John Steinbeck.

Contents:

Eric Ambler, from A coffin for Dimitrios

Anthony Burgess, from Tremor of intent

Joseph Conrad, from Under western eyes

Maxim Gorky, from The spy

Graham Greene, from The quiet American

John Le Carré, from The Russia house

W. Somerset Maugham, from Ashenden

Charles McCarry, from The tears of autumn

Baroness Orczy, from The scarlet pimpernel

John Steinbeck, from The moon is down

Rebecca West, from The birds fall down.

ISBN:

067964251X

OCLC:

49531315