Ian Fleming, in full Ian Lancaster Fleming, was a suspense-fiction novelist whose character James Bond, the stylish, high-living British secret service agent 007, who became one of the most successful and widely imitated heroes of 20th-century popular fiction. As well as the hugely successful Bond novels, Ian Fleming also wrote the novel Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car, on which the 1968 film musical was based. Framed in the voice of a narrator retelling a story that he has overheard, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a three-part, primarily third-person adventure narrative built around an eccentric family and their magical car. In the first part, the Pott family is introduced. Having a lineage going back to the Romans, the Potts live beside a lake near a turnpike outside Canterbury, England. Jeremy and Jemima are eight-year-old twins living with their mother, Mimsie, and their father, Commander Caractacus Pott, a humorous, dreamy, unsuccessful explorer and inventor known in the neighbourhood as “Crackpot Pott.” They are poor, without money to buy a car, but happy. The unconventional Commander invents “Crackpot’s Whistling Sweets,” a combination toy and candy that he sells to a candy maker, Lord Scrumptious, for one thousand pounds. This money allows the family to buy an extraordinary automobile… Fleming did not live to see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang published: he suffered a further heart attack on 11 August 1964 and died in the early morning of the following day in Canterbury, Kent. Enjoy free online English audiobook “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”, a novel by Ian Fleming.
