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Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels (LOA #79) : Pulp Stories / the Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely / the High Window by Raymond Chandler (1995, Hardcover)

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PublisherLibrary of America, T.H.E.

ISBN-101883011078

ISBN-139781883011079

eBay Product ID (ePID)539534

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Book TitleRaymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels (LOA #79) : Pulp Stories / the Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely / the High Window

Number of Pages1216 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicMystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Mystery & Detective / Collections & Anthologies, Short Stories (Single Author), Noir, Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators

Publication Year1995

GenreFiction

AuthorRaymond Chandler

Book SeriesLibrary of America Raymond Chandler Edition Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight26.6 Oz

Item Length8.1 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN94-045462

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Series Volume Number1

SynopsisIn Raymond Chandler's hands, the pulp crime story became a haunting mystery of power and corruption, set against a modern cityscape both lyrical and violent. Now Chandler joins the authoritative Library of America series in a comprehensive two-volume set displaying all the facets of his brilliant talent. In his first novel, The Big Sleep (1939), the classic private eye finds his full-fledged form as Philip Marlowe: at once tough, independent, brash, disillusioned, and sensitive--and man of weary honor threading his way (in Chandler's phrase) "down these mean streets" among blackmailers, pornographers, and murderers for hire. In Farewell, My Lovely (1940), Chandler's personal favorite among his novels, Marlowe's search for a missing woman leads him from shanties and honky-tonks to the highest reaches of power, encountering an array of richly drawn characters. The High Window (1942), about a rare coin that becomes a catalyst by which a hushed-up crime comes back to haunt a wealthy family, is partly a humorous burlesque of pulp fiction. All three novels show Chandler at a peak of verbal inventiveness and storytelling drive Stories and Early Novels also includes every classic noir story from the 1930s that Chandler did not later incorporate into a novel--thirteen in all, among them such classics as "Red Wind," "Finger Man," The King in Yellow," and "Trouble Is My Business." Drawn from the pages of Black Mask and Dime Detective , these stories show how Chandler adapted the violent conventions of the pulp magazine--with their brisk exposition and rapid-fire dialogue--to his own emerging vision of twentieth-century America. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

LC Classification NumberPS3505.H3224A6