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Eric Ambler Biografía y Hechos

Eric Clifford Ambler (Londres, Reino Unido, 28 de junio de 1909 - 22 de octubre de 1998),[1]​[2]​ más conocido como Eric Ambler[3]​ o con el seudónimo Eliot Reed (cuando escribió obras junto a Charles Rodda), fue un escritor británico[4]​ de novela negra y novela de espionaje (a las que introdujo un nuevo realismo), guionista y productor cinematográfico.[5]​ Biografía Eric Ambler tuvo una infancia feliz, según su propia autobiografía (Here Lies: An Autobiography, 1985),[6]​ en donde narra con humor y modestia la primera parte de la vida del que llegará a ser maestro de la nueva novela de espionaje. En 1928 obtiene su título de ingeniero y tras trabajar como actor de vaudeville, prefiere dedicarse a la publicidad, profesión que ejercerá hasta finales de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y que alternará con la novela.[7]​ Entre 1936 y 1940 escribe seis novelas de espionaje, que se convertirán en clásicos, entre ellas su primera obra The Dark Frontier. Se enrola en el ejército británico en 1940 y permanecerá seis años sirviendo en los batallones de propaganda cinematográfica, escribiendo guiones y realizando filmaciones en los lugares de batalla, en donde conoce a John Huston. Abandona con la graduación de teniente coronel. Tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial prueba sin éxito la aventura americana, como guionista en Hollywood,[8]​ pero al cabo de poco tiempo regresa en 1951 a la novela. En 1958 decide volver a Europa y prosiguió su carrera literaria hasta 1981. La contribución de Eric Ambler será fundamental para elevar el thriller a la categoría de literatura noble.[9]​ La novela negra será el género preferido por Ambler, ya que le permitía expresar sus opiniones políticas, aunque nunca caerá en las ilusiones de las utopías.[10]​ Sus personajes son personas normales, en muchas ocasiones llegadas a espías sin pretenderlo, antihéroes vapuleados por fuerzas que les superan con mucho.[11]​ A menudo Ambler utiliza su experiencia en los negocios y su formación como ingeniero para dar verosimilitud a sus relatos, sirviéndose de un muy británico sentido del humor y de un estilo de escritura inimitable.[12]​ Obras literarias Filmografía Guionista 1943 : The New Lot, dirigida por Carol Reed 1944 : The Way Ahead, dirigida por Carol Reed 1947 : The October Man, dirigida por Roy Ward Baker 1949 : Amigos apasionados (The Passionate Friends), dirigida por David Lean 1950 : Armas secretas (Highly Dangerous), dirigida por Roy Ward Baker 1951 : The Magic Box, dirigida por John Boulting 1951 : Encore, dirigida por Harold French 1952 : The Card, dirigida por Ronald Neame 1953 : The Cruel Sea, dirigida por Charles Frend 1953 : Rough Shoot, dirigida por Robert Parrish 1954 : The Purple Plain, dirigida por Robert Parrish 1954 : Lease of Life, dirigida por Charles Frend 1957 : Yangtse Incident: The Story of HMS Amethyst, basada en el Incidente del Yangtsé, dirigida por Michael Anderson. 1958 : A Night to Remember, dirigida por Roy Ward Baker 1959 : Misterio en el barco perdido (The Wreck of the Mary Deare), dirigida por Michael Anderson 1962 : Rebelión a bordo (Mutiny on the Bounty), dirigida por Lewis Milestone 1971 : Love Hate Love (TV), dirigida por George McCowan Productor 1947 : The October Man, dirigida por Roy Ward Baker. 1949 : Amigos apasionados (The Passionate Friends), dirigida por David Lean. Premios y distinciones Premios Óscar Bibliografía Ambler, Eric (2012). Here Lies: An Autobiography: An Autobiography (en inglés). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 9780307950109.  Referencias Enlaces externos Web oficial (en inglés) Eric Ambler en IMDb (en inglés). Descubre los libros populares de Eric Ambler. Encuentra los 100 libros más populares de Eric Ambler

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  • Plain Murder sinopsis y comentarios

    Plain Murder

    C. S. Forester

    At the Universal Advertising Agency on the Strand, London, a murder is being planned. Three men have been discovered taking bribes and face the grim prospect of the dole queue, unl...

  • Goodbye Mickey Mouse sinopsis y comentarios

    Goodbye Mickey Mouse

    Len Deighton

    'The sheer charge of the writing swept me into another world' The TimesDecember 1943. A group of US fighter pilots is camped at a windswept air base in Norfolk. Their job is to esc...

  • Down There on a Visit sinopsis y comentarios

    Down There on a Visit

    Christopher Isherwood

    WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PHILIP HENSHERBerlin, the Greek Islands, London and California. 1928, 1932, 1938 and 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators, all known as 'C...

  • The Godfather: The Lost Years sinopsis y comentarios

    The Godfather: The Lost Years

    Mark Winegardner

    Brought to you by Penguin.'The bloody victory of the Corleone Family was not complete,' begins the final chapter of Mario Puzo's The Godfather, 'until a year of delicate manoeuvrin...

  • The Small Back Room sinopsis y comentarios

    The Small Back Room

    Nigel Balchin

    A true modern classic, THE SMALL BACK ROOM is a towering novel of the Second World War.Sammy Rice is a weapons scientist, one of the 'back room boys' of the Second World War. A cri...

  • Hope sinopsis y comentarios

    Hope

    Len Deighton

    A BERNARD SAMSON NOVEL'A master of fictional espionage' Daily MailWhen Bernard Samson is woken in the middle of the night and discovers an injured man on his doorstep, he knows it ...

  • Utopia sinopsis y comentarios

    Utopia

    Lincoln Child

    The world's grandest theme park is a place known for its cuttingedge robots, aweinspiring holographics, and whiteknuckle thrills. Stretching out beneath a vast golden dome in the ...

  • Spy Hook sinopsis y comentarios

    Spy Hook

    Len Deighton

    'A master of fictional espionage' Daily Mail'In Deighton's best books like this one the narrative glides forward on rollers, and the scenes and characters fit perfectly into plac...

  • Magnetism sinopsis y comentarios

    Magnetism

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Film star George Hannaford oozes charm. Although women fall at his feet, his marriage is the most solid in the movie business. But when he sees his wife staring into another man’s ...

  • The Long Shadow sinopsis y comentarios

    The Long Shadow

    Mark Mills

    From Mark Mills, author of the awardwinning THE SAVAGE GARDEN comes THE LONG SHADOW, a firstclass thriller in the vein of Robert Harris and William Boyd. Blood brothers or sworn en...

  • Stop What You’re Doing and Read…Classic Crime: The Adventures And Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes & The Murders in the Rue Morgue sinopsis y comentarios

    Stop What You’re Doing and Read…Classic Crime: The Adventures And Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes & The Murders in the Rue Morgue

    Arthur Conan Doyle & Edgar Allan Poe

    To mark the publication of Stop What You're Doing and Read This!, a collection of essays celebrating reading, Vintage Classics are releasing 12 limited edition themed ebook 'bundle...

  • The Saboteur sinopsis y comentarios

    The Saboteur

    Simon Conway

    A stunning, apocalyptic standalone sequel to The Stranger.The Terrorist Guy Fowle, known as the Stranger, escapes from prison. A mysterious Russian hacker is murdered in London and...

  • Oroonoko sinopsis y comentarios

    Oroonoko

    Aphra Behn & Janet Todd

    Aphra Behn, the poet, playwright, novelist and political satirist was the first truly professional woman writer in English. This selection, edited and introduced by Professor Janet...

  • The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China sinopsis y comentarios

    The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China

    Lu Xun & Julia Lovell

    Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) is arguably the greatest writer of modern China, and is considered by many to be the founder of modern Chinese literature. Lu Xun's stories both indict outdated Ch...

  • Spy Story sinopsis y comentarios

    Spy Story

    Len Deighton

    'Len Deighton's spy novels are so good they make me sad the Cold War is over' Malcolm GladwellAfter six weeks in a nuclear submarine gathering computer data on Soviet activity, the...

  • The Military Philosophers sinopsis y comentarios

    The Military Philosophers

    Anthony Powell

    'He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great ...

  • Motivo d'allarme sinopsis y comentarios

    Motivo d'allarme

    Eric Ambler

    Per chiedere a Claire di sposarlo l’ingegner Nicholas Marlow non avrebbe dovuto scegliere il giorno in cui la sua ditta gli comunica il licenziamento. E prima di accettare un nuovo...

  • Close-Up sinopsis y comentarios

    Close-Up

    Len Deighton

    'Stylish and stimulating' The TimesAgeing Hollywood star Marshall Stone is scared. Scared that the parts are drying up. Scared of being forgotten. So when he hears an eminent autho...

  • Eric Ambler’s Novels sinopsis y comentarios

    Eric Ambler’s Novels

    Robert Lance Snyder

    Bridging what is often perceived as a divide between the thriller and literary fiction, Eric Ambler's eighteen novels undertake a wideranging critique of modernity. Among the twent...

  • Bomber sinopsis y comentarios

    Bomber

    Len Deighton

    'Probably the best thing ever written about the wartime air campaign against Germany' Max Hastings'Magnificent ... rich with historical detail' The Times31 June, 1943. An RAF crew ...

  • A Kind of Anger sinopsis y comentarios

    A Kind of Anger

    Eric Ambler

    'A thriller of the highest quality ironic, witty, literate, ingenious, understated and unflaggingly suspenseful' The New York Times Book ReviewThe last time anyone saw Lucia Berna...

  • Topkapi sinopsis y comentarios

    Topkapi

    Eric Ambler

    «Avevo bisogno di soldi, e quel tizio pareva averne ... Come diavolo facevo a sapere che genere di persona era Harper?». Arthur Abdel Simpson è un apolide egiziano che si professa ...

  • Killer in the Rain sinopsis y comentarios

    Killer in the Rain

    Raymond Chandler

    'I pushed her back into the house without saying anything, shut the door. We stood looking at each other inside. She dropped her hand slowly and tried to smile. Then all expression...

  • Funeral in Berlin sinopsis y comentarios

    Funeral in Berlin

    Len Deighton

    'The classic and gripping spy novel of Cold War Berlin' Guardian1963 Berlin is dark and dangerous. The anonymous hero of The IPCRESS File has been sent to help arrange the defectio...

  • Il caso Schirmer sinopsis y comentarios

    Il caso Schirmer

    Eric Ambler

    Jena, ottobre 1806: il sergente Franz Schirmer, gravemente ferito in battaglia, trova rifugio presso la famiglia locale dei Dutka. Subito dopo, con brusco stacco cinematografico, c...

  • Charity sinopsis y comentarios

    Charity

    Len Deighton

    A BERNARD SAMSON NOVEL'The master of espionage writing at his brilliant best' Mail on SundayWith the Cold War drawing to a close in the East, Bernard Samson is still haunted by the...

  • Mexico Set sinopsis y comentarios

    Mexico Set

    Len Deighton

    'Deighton is a marvel ... a tale told by an author at the height of his power' Chicago TribuneWorldweary agent Bernard Samson is losing control of his personal and professional lif...

  • The Madman of Bergerac sinopsis y comentarios

    The Madman of Bergerac

    Georges Simenon & Ros Schwartz

    A new translation of Simenon's tense novel, book fifteen in the new Penguin Maigret series.He recalled his travelling companion's agitated sleep was it really sleep? his sighs, a...

  • The Fallen Sparrow sinopsis y comentarios

    The Fallen Sparrow

    Dorothy B. Hughes

    Who killed Louie Lepetino?Was it Barby, with her silvery sheen of hair, looking like a top model and acting like a woman madly in love?Or the beautiful Toni, who is hiding some str...

  • The Galton Case sinopsis y comentarios

    The Galton Case

    Ross MacDonald

    Twenty years ago, Anthony Galton vanished, along with his streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of the Galton fortune. Now his dying mother wants him found, and Lew Archer ...

  • La frontiera proibita sinopsis y comentarios

    La frontiera proibita

    Eric Ambler

    Se in una affamata repubblica balcanica un genio offuscato dal più selvaggio nazionalismo mette a punto un ordigno capace di sovvertire l’ordine mondiale non c’è da stare allegri. ...

  • Faith sinopsis y comentarios

    Faith

    Len Deighton

    A BERNARD SAMSON NOVEL'The plotting is masterly, the atmospheric descriptions superb ... absolute bliss' Sunday TelegraphSummer 1987, the final years of the Cold War. Bernard Samso...

  • La maschera di Dimitrios sinopsis y comentarios

    La maschera di Dimitrios

    Eric Ambler

    Istanbul, intorno alla metà degli anni Trenta. Nel corso di un ricevimento Charles Latimer, giallista inglese di successo, viene avvicinato dal più imprevedibile degli ammiratori, ...

  • Only When I Larf sinopsis y comentarios

    Only When I Larf

    Len Deighton

    'Dazzling ingenuity and cleverness' IndependentThree con artists are on the make, and making millions. There's Silas, the leader, slick and selfassured; Liz, his glamorous lover; a...

  • The Godfather's Revenge sinopsis y comentarios

    The Godfather's Revenge

    Mark Winegardner

    It is 1963 in New York, and things have never been better for the Corleones. They've taken out their Mafia rivals, and legitimised the Family. Outside the fortified building owned ...

  • The Sound of Trumpets sinopsis y comentarios

    The Sound of Trumpets

    John Mortimer

    When a Tory MP is found dead in a swimmingpool wearing a leopardskin bikini, the embittered Leslie (now Lord) Titmuss sees the ideal opportunity to reenter the political arena. All...

  • The Ice sinopsis y comentarios

    The Ice

    Laline Paull

    An electrifying story of friendship, power and betrayal by the bestselling, Baileysprize shortlisted author of The Bees.‘A memorable ecothriller. This is a world of arms dealers, h...

  • The Citizen (Storycuts) sinopsis y comentarios

    The Citizen (Storycuts)

    Frederick Forsyth

    On a routine flight from Bangkok to Heathrow the captain receives an anonymous tipoff from an overzealous family man that he checks out as a matter of course. Meanwhile, Bill Butle...

  • The IPCRESS File sinopsis y comentarios

    The IPCRESS File

    Len Deighton

    'A stonecold Cold War classic' Toby Litt, GuardianA highranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British intelligence agency must find out why. But as the quarry is pursued f...

  • A Way Through the Wood sinopsis y comentarios

    A Way Through the Wood

    Nigel Balchin

    A psychological study of marriage, loyalty and justice, A WAY THROUGH THE WOOD is a remarkable postwar novel.'A superb storyteller' SUNDAY TIMES 'I'd place him up there with Graha...

  • The Old Curiosity Shop sinopsis y comentarios

    The Old Curiosity Shop

    Charles Dickens

    With an essay by Lyn Pykett.'But what added most to the grotesque expression of his face, was a ghastly smile, which, appearing to be the mere result of habit and to have no connex...

  • Whispering Wind (Storycuts) sinopsis y comentarios

    Whispering Wind (Storycuts)

    Frederick Forsyth

    An astonishing and beautiful tale of a frontier scout who saves a young Cheyenne girl from the prospect of rape and murder at the hands of his own army. The favour is returned when...

  • The Ipcress File sinopsis y comentarios

    The Ipcress File

    Len Deighton

    NOW A MAJOR NEW TV SERIESA highranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British intelligence agency must find out why. But as the quarry is pursued from grimy Soho to the oth...

  • London Match sinopsis y comentarios

    London Match

    Len Deighton

    'Spying at its most captivating and intricate' The Times'Deighton has woven an intricate and satisfying plot, peopled it with convincing characters and even given a new twist to th...

  • The Davidian Report sinopsis y comentarios

    The Davidian Report

    Dorothy B. Hughes

    One of them is the link to Davidian.One of them is holding out . . .Steve Wintress's flight to Los Angeles is forced down in bad weather, and he shares a car into town with three f...

  • Passage of Arms sinopsis y comentarios

    Passage of Arms

    Eric Ambler

    'The man who lit the way for us all' Len DeightonAn Indian clerk, Girija Krishnan, sees the opportunity of his lifetime when he stumbles on an abandoned cache of arms hidden in the...

  • Il levantino sinopsis y comentarios

    Il levantino

    Eric Ambler

    Per allestire un intrigo internazionale, come Alfred Hitchcock ha dimostrato, bastano due ingredienti: un’ambientazione esotica – oppure familiare, ma che da un momento all’altro a...

  • The Chill sinopsis y comentarios

    The Chill

    Ross MacDonald

    Private detective Lew Archer has better things to do than take on an investigation for Alex Kincaid, a young man claiming that his new bride, Dolly, has gone missing. Snapped by a ...

  • XPD sinopsis y comentarios

    XPD

    Len Deighton

    'A stunning spy story ... incomparable' GuardianIt is the most dangerous secret of the Second World War, one that could destroy Britain's reputation forever. In 1940, a clandestine...

  • The Night of the Hunter sinopsis y comentarios

    The Night of the Hunter

    Davis Grubb

    'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouthwatering prospect' Daily TelegraphTwo young children hold the key to a secret stash of money and a relen...