Alarms and Epitaphs The Art of Eric Ambler

Name: Alarms and Epitaphs The Art of Eric Ambler
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ISBN: 9780879726034

ISBN-10: 0879726032

ISBN-13: 9780879726034

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Authors: Peter Wolfe

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Eric Ambler's novelistic career falls into two halves. In the first half belong the works he published between 1935–1940. These include the highly acclaimedEpitaph for a Spy(1938) andThe Mask of Dimitrios(1939), both of which were made into successful films in 1944. The intrigue books of this period unfold in interwar Europe, a bitten-up, anxious place reeling between the extremes of fascism and Soviet communism. To reflect changes in the postwar world, Ambler set his later books in third-world countries where first-world financing collides with unstable, often revolutionary, politics—all within the shadow of large multinational corporations. These powerful firms with connections in high…

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List price: $15.95
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 1/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English



Acknowledgments



The Point of Danger



Eric Ambler's Maze



Marked Down for Action



This Madhouse Called Europe



Playing Ball with the Regime



Enter Eliot Reed



Baiting the Trap



Echoes of Old Lies


Conclusion


Notes


Works Cited


Index