Spy stories, English
Satire, English
Nuestro hombre en La Habana : un entretenimiento
Nuestro hombre en la Habana
Unser Mann in Havanna Roman ; mit einer Krimi-Analyse der Zeit-Redaktion
Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power cuts. His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him, so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he's tempted. In return all he has to do is carry out a little espionage and file a few reports. But when his fake reports start coming true, things suddenly get more complicated and Havana becomes a threatening place.
Our man in Havana; an entertainment
Nash chelovek v Gavane ; Tikhiĭ amerikanet︠s︡
Vår man i Havanna : [en agentroman]
Wormold, the quintessential ordinary man, accepts an assignment as a Secret Service agent in Havana. Its is a superior thriller.
Adaptations
Nosso homem em Havana
Our Man in Havana
Notre agent a la Havane : suivi de Les destructeurs
Miehemme Havannassa
Spy stories
Vår man i Havanna ; Den tredje mannen
Wormold is just an average man-a divorced vacuum cleaner salesman with a teenage daughter who puts quite a strain on his finances. Into this regular man's life slithers the British Secret Service with a rather unusual proposition: the agency needs a man in Havana. To keep the cash flowing, Wormold fabricates agents, fakes expense accounts, and falsifies stories. He even invents a phony weapons conspiracy by sending the London office some sketches of a fighter plane that looks a lot like a vacuum cleaner. But when his preposterous stories start coming true, Wormold learns "there is always another side to a joke." His only recourse is to strike a blow against organized stupidity, and find out just how extraordinary an ordinary man can be.
Follows the plight of Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman, who becomes a slave to the expensive whims of his thirteen-year-old daughter, Milly, and takes on a job in Havana as a secret agent to pay for them.
First pub. 1958. Humorous tale of a vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana who becomes M.I.6 man.
Vor mand i Havana : Omsl.: Knud Agergaard
Ha wa na te pai yuan = Our man in Havana
History
Humorous fiction
Notre agent à La Havane : traduit de l'anglais par Marcelle Sibon
Typefaces (Type evidence)
"Mr Wormold, vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts, is, as always, short of money. His daughter, sixteen, followed everywhere by wolf whistles, is spending his money with a skill that amazes him, so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he's tempted. All he has to do is run agents, file reports: spy. But his fake reports have an alarming tendency to come true, and the web of lies he weaves around him starts to get more and more tangled.
Vår man i Havanna : Monsignore Quijote
Notre agent à La Havane ["Our man in Havana"] : Traduit de l'anglais par Marcelle Sibon. [Illustrations de Daniel Dupuy.]
Line drawings
Our man in Havana
Wormold's daughter had reached an expensive age - so he accepted a mysterious Englishman's offer of extra income. All he has to do is run agents, file reports, and spy. But his fake reports have an alarming tendency to come true.
Nuestro hombre en la Habana / Marisa Martínez
GENERAL & LITERARY FICTION. 'He carried with him the breath of beaches and the leathery smell of a good club'. This title comes with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens. Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power cuts. His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him, so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he's tempted. In return all he has to do is carry out a little espionage and file a few reports. But when his fake reports start coming true things suddenly get more complicated and Havana becomes a threatening place.
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Nonsense-suspense story about a middle-aged Englishman, a mousey shopkeeper in Cuba, who is recruited for the secret service without quite knowing what it's all about.
Wormold, in an effort to support his spoiled daughter, accepts a job as a secret agent in Havana, in service to England, but the imaginary reports he files in the interest of keeping his job, somehow start coming true.
Il nostro agente all'avana
Our Man in Havana. An entertainment
Nasz człowiek w Hawanie : [Our man in Havana.] Tłumaczyła Maria Skibniewska
Our Man in Havana, etc
Il nostro agente all'Avana
Our man in Havana : an entertainment
Nasz człowiek w Hawanie
Nuestro hombre en La Habana
Our man in Havana an entertainment
Our man in Havana. An entertainment. With an introduction by Tom Jupp
Satire
Powieść angielska
Vor mand i Havana
Nový Greenův román navazuje na jeho protikolonialistické protesty, pokračuje v ostré kritice kapitalistického znevážení ceny lidského života a zesměšňuje anglickou tajnou službu. Humor a osobitá ironie však nezmenšuje dramatičnost překvapujících zápletek této špionážní satiry.
Satirische roman over een Britse spion, die in Cuba een spionagenetwerk opbouwt met niet-bestaande agenten.
Our man in Havana. An entertainment. (Repr.)
Nuestro hombre en la Habana un entretenimiento
Unser Mann in Havanna : Roman ; mit Krimi-Analyse der Zeit-Redaktion ; [Tatort Kuba]
James Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power cuts, is short on money and has a teenage daughter with expensive tastes. When he's approached by the MI-6 to become an agent, he reluctantly takes the lucrative job and soon begins fabricating wild reports, inventing bogus recruits, and dreaming up secret military constructions out of vacuum cleaner designs. But his deceptions soon start becoming disturbingly real.
O Nosso agente em havana
Our man in Havana, an entertaimnent
Notre agent à la Havane : ["Our man in Havana"]. Traduit de l'anglais par Marcelle Sibon
Parodie op de geheime dienst waarin een agent van de Britse Secret Service een denkbeeldig apparaat opbouwt met niet bestaande onderagenten.
Notre agent à la Havane : ("Our man in Havana"), roman traduit de l'anglais par Marcelle Sibon
Into an ordinary vacuum cleaner salesman's life slithers the Secret Service with a not-so-ordinary proposition, and Wormold, high on incredulity but low on cash, accepts the offer: a $300 a month assignment as England's new "man" in Havana. To keep the job and, more importantly, the cash flowing, Wormold fabricates non-existent agents, fake expense accounts, false stories, even a phony weapons conspiracy. But the stakes change when people start turning up murdered.
Wormold is making a precarious living as a vacuum cleaner salesman in 1950s' Havana. But as the political tensions heat up, he worries that his teenage daughter Milly might be left prenniless if anything happens to him. So when a polite Englishman offers him $300-plus a month, he quickly agrees to the proposed arrangement and becomes Agent 59200/5 - M6's man in Havana. The money comes at a price, however, and as Wormold isn't keen on spying he creates imaginary reports based on Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare and sketches millitary installations based on drawings of the insides of vacuum cleaners. As his creations become incresingly involved and elaborate, strange things begin happening - his imaginary creations develop the disturbing habit of turning into fact.
Our Man in Havana follows the plight of Wormold, a former vacuum cleaner salesman, who becomes a slave to the expensive whims of his thirteen-year-old daughter, Milly, and takes on a job for MI6 as Secret Agent 5920015 to pay for them. In The Destructors, the childish pranks of the Wormsley Common Gang turn serious when the newest member suggests destroying an old man's house.
Door een fictief netwerk van geheime agenten verdient een medewerker van de Britse Secret Service in Havana een aanzienlijk honorarium.
Notre agent à la Havane = Our Man in Havana : roman
Translations
OUR MAN IN HAVANA
Follows the plight of Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman, who becomes a slave to the expensive whims of his thirteen-year-old daughter, Milly, and takes on a job as Secret Agent 5920015 to pay for them.
Our man in Havana. With introduction, glossary and notes by Tom Jupp
Follows the plight of Wormold, a former vacuum cleaner salesman, who becomes a slave to the expensive whims of his thirteen-year-old daughter, Milly, and takes on a job for MI6 as Secret Agent 5920015 to pay for them.
Vår man i Havanna
Notre agent à La Havane ; suivi de Les destructeurs
Nuestro hombre en La Habana ; Un caso acabado
Our man in Havana : a complete novel
Our man in Havana : [film script]
American fiction
Parodie op de geheime dienst, waarin een agent van de Britse Secret Service een denkbeeldig apparaat opbouwt met niet bestaande onderagenten.
Humorous stories, English
Nuestro hombre en la Habana : novela
Vor Mand i Havana
Nashii︠a︡t chovek v Khavana : zabavna istorii︠a︡
Notre agent à La Havane : suivi de Les destructeurs
Drama
Our man in Havana / by Graham Greene
Unser Mann in Havanna : Roman. Berechtigte Übers. aus d. Engl. von Lida Winiewicz
Our man in Havana. An entertainment
Large type books
[Our Man in Havana.] Nasz człowiek w Hawanie. Tlumaczyła Maria Skibniewska
The story of a British vacuum cleaner salesman who gets accidentally drawn into cold war espionage with disastrous and hilarious results.
Notre agent à la Havane ... Roman traduit ... par Marcelle Sibon
Notre agent a la Havane = (Our man in Havana)
Notre agent à La Havane ; (suivi de) Les Destructeurs
Havannai emberünk : [regény]
Our man in Havana, an entertainment
Il nostro agente all'Avana : romanzo
In pre-Castro Cuba, vacuum cleaner salesman Jim Wormold is a single father whose teenage daughter's spending outstrips his modest salary. To make a little extra money, he agrees to work for the British Secret Service, but lacking any actual inside information, he invents a ring of spies and sends his handlers fictitious reports. Imagine his surprise when the stories he creates start to come true and enemy spies attempt to kill him.
Fiction
El Nostre home a l'Havana
An unsuccessful English vacuum cleaner salesman accepts a job as a secret agent with no intention of doing the job. When his reports begin to come true, he finds himself involved in a frightening intrigue.
מוכר שואבי אבק שנענה להצעה מפתה להפוך למרגל של שירות הביון האנגלי, לספק קצת מידע, ובתמורה ליהנות מהכנסה צדדית מכובדת. אבל כשהדוחות הבדויים שהוא שולח הופכים למשהו ממשי, העניינים מסתבכים והוואנה הופכת למקום מסוכן.
Our man in Havanna
The story of a British vacuum cleaner salesman who is accidentally drawn into cold war espionage with disastrous and risible results.
Tajna obveščevalna služba Velika Britanija V leposlovju.