The Man with the Golden Typewriter

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The Man with the Golden Typewriter The Man with the Golden Typewriter

by Bloomsbury Publishing

Genre: Other9

Published: 2015

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On August 16, 1952, Ian Fleming wrote to his wife, Ann, "My love, This is only a tiny letter to try out my new typewriter and to see if it will write golden words since it is made of gold." He had bought the golden typewriter as a present to himself for finishing his first novel, Casino Royale. It marked in glamorous style the arrival of James Bond, agent 007, and the start of a career that saw Fleming become one the world's most celebrated thriller-writers. And he did write golden words. Before his death in 1964 he produced fourteen best-selling Bond books, two works of non-fiction and the famous children's story Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang. Fleming's output was matched by an equally energetic flow of letters. He wrote constantly, to his wife, publisher, editors, fans, friends and critics—and to the wife of the man whose name Fleming appropriated for his hero—charting 007's progress with correspondence that ranged from badgering Jonathan Cape...

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