Literary Spy Novels
S06
Annabel Davis-Goff
The thriller and spy novel reflects the fears, values, and concerns of its time. We will read Kipling, Erskine Childers, and trace the development of British spy fiction through the first and second World Wars, to The Untouchable, John Banville’s novel about the last of the Cambridge spies. Readings will include Conrad, Maugham, and Greene. Students will write two essays.