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Stories & Early Novels: Pulp Stories, The Big Sleep, Farewell, My by Chandler, Raymond
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #198946 in Books
- Published on: 1995-10-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.48" h x 5.32" w x 8.06" l, 1.68 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 1216 pages
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Review
If you're looking for a ideal present for yourself or some other partner of mysteries, this beautifully-made volume from a Library of America array will really infer that we caring adequate to send a really best. And if we haven't picked adult The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, or The High Window recently, you'll be vacant during how good they mount adult to a exam of time. (A second large volume, Later Novels & Other Writings -- including The Long Goodbye -- is also available.)
From Library Journal
These additions to a princely array make central what poser fans have always known: Raymond Chandler is one of a gods of American literature. Following a route blazed by Dashiell Hammett, Chandler combined Philip Marlowe and set a customary opposite that all private investigator novella is measured. This two-volume set covers a full criterion of Chandler's work from early pap stories to all a Marlowe novels, a screenplay for Double Indemnity, and essays on a poser genre and a common Library of America goodies such as records on a content and a chronology of a author's life. In terms of literary inventions, a Wild West cowboy and a hard-boiled P.I. are this country's usually loyal local sons and are honourable of respect. One of them during slightest now has it.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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17 of 20 people found a following examination helpful.
Great Stories, Great Edition, Great Book
By A Customer
Just my personal opinion, yet we cruise Raymond Chandler is one of a many underrated American authors. Anyone who hasn't examination "The Long Goodbye" contingency be punishing themselves for sins in a past life. "The Big Sleep" and "The High Window" are also glorious novels--good mysteries.
But what unequivocally creates Chandler's stories reason adult so good is a language: "The Dancers is a kind of bar that will retraction we about what a lot of additional golf income can do for a personality" or "What does it matter, if you're respirating breeze and atmosphere or oil and water--when you're sleeping a large sleep."
While a plots are smashing duration pieces of a immature Los Angeles, a characters are richly drawn. Ever consternation where all those tv detectives came from? Right here.
Chandler's brief stories are also supurb. My opinion for a singular best investigator brief story of all time is Red Wind--there is so many that happens in such a brief story. No one should ever die though reading it....."Trouble is my Business" is also excellent....
Is this a finish collection of his brief stories? No--There are a few we would have added, even yet several of them were "canibalized" (Chandler's phrase) into after novels. The tract of "Bay City Blues" was built into "Lady in a Lake," yet we cruise that story still binds adult on a own. An progressing examination also mentioned that "The Pencil" is missing. we can't know since it was left out. "Killer in a Rain" also became "The Big Sleep," yet it still has charm. "No Crime in a Mountains" is not included, yet that's not many of a loss.
Not all of a stories in this book work--but that's going to be loyal with any collection. What is available with Library of America is a bindings are wonderful, a imitation rise easy to read, a books distortion flat, and will final forever. The list prices are a small steep--but not if we cruise a volume of novel you're removing for a cost. I've bought this book 3 times, and have loaned it out--only for it to never return. But that's since we buy books.
One final note--The prior examination mentioned that in this book Johnny Dahlmas was transposed by Phillip Marlowe in "Red Wind." we was certain it was Johnny, and used Amazon's "Look Inside" to confirm--it is. Chandler had a few detectives, that eventually developed into Marlowe, and any was a small different. we have a really soothing mark in my heart for Dahlmas (I'm substantially spelling his name wrong, so a soothing mark might be in my head), so if a editor x-ed him out, I'd be furious....
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8 of 9 people found a following examination helpful.
Good, good, GOOD editorial choice here!
By Paul Dana
Earlier anthologies of Raymond Chandler's works mostly core on what have come to be famous as his 'big four' or beginning novels -- The Big Sleep, Farewell My Lovely, The High Window, The Lady In The Lake -- or on his later, and admittedly (with a probable difference of The Little Sister) 'inferior' works. Chandler's progressing brief stories ( many of that he "cannibalized," to use his word, for a element in his successive novels) are routinely treated as a apart genre altogether.
This sold collection, rightly, combines Chandler's initial 3 novels with a best of his progressing brief stories, noticing a thematic togetherness in those works. (Good as it is, "The Lady In The Lake" final to be treated alone from Chandler's progressing efforts.)
Chances are, if you're reading this, you've examination most, if not all, of Chandler's Phillip Marlowe novels. You might as good have examination many, if not all, of a brief stories presented here. But have we examination these novels, and these brief stories, TOGETHER in this context? Likely not. But we merit to.
In a brief stories, for example, there are protagonists named John Evans, Ted Carmody and Tony Resick (the final dual of which, interestingly, live locations that were many expected Los Angeles' Hotel Mayfair, with that Chandler had some-more than a nodding familiarity). And when, in Chandler's writings, did they mix themselves into what would be his penultimate creation, Phillip Marlowe?
And during that indicate did Chandler start to write, as associate author Ross McDonald termed it, "like a slumming angel . . ."? The answers to both questions might good distortion here, in this collection.
Pick adult this collection! Read it! Discover a element anew!
3 of 3 people found a following examination helpful.
Pour a thwart and fume 'em if you've got 'em
By Deric Clarke
What we cruise one of a biggest detailed writers in a Western cannon, Chandler can ride we in to aged Los Angeles. Every story will make we crave a unbending splash and maybe even withdrawal a smell of tabacoo in your clothes. we recomend these stories to people who wish to know LA improved since Chandler held a hint of a city that can even be seen today. Look down a 2nd travel hovel during 2 am and see that tub of a gun or expostulate to a Rosebowl and see since he creates anxiety that there are no sidewalks in that rich neighborhood. If we wish to learn about noir, there is a reason Chandler is deliberate one of a fathers.
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