Raymond Chandler: The Library of America Edition
$132.11
- Hardcover
2275 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2018
Summary
It was about eleven o’clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark blue clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn’t care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.
With these words, priv…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781598533194 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1598533193 |
| Author: | Raymond Chandler |
| Publisher: | Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 2275 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2018 |
| Weight: | 1.59kg |
| Dimensions: | 79mm x 137mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
“This two-volume set covers the full canon of Chandler’s work, from early pulp stories to all the Marlowe novels, the screenplay for Double Indemnity, and essays on the mystery genre plus the usual Library of America goodies such as notes on the text and a chronology of the author’s life.”
Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) was born in Chicago but raised in London, returning to the U.S. to live in California in 1919. His first story, “Blackmailers Don’t Shoot,” was published in 1933 and “The Big Sleep”, his first novel, in 1939.
Paul Skenazy is the author of “The New Wild West: The Urban Mysteries of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler” and he is Professor of American Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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