Chandler Before Marlowe
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Chandler Before Marlowe
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Author : Raymond Chandler
language : en
Publisher: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 1973
Chandler Before Marlowe written by Raymond Chandler and has been published by Columbia : University of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Literary Criticism categories.
Farewell My Lovely
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Author : Raymond Chandler
language : en
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Release Date : 2002-06-11
Farewell My Lovely written by Raymond Chandler and has been published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-06-11 with Fiction categories.
The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson. Philip Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption than your average graveyard.
The World Of Raymond Chandler
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Author : Raymond Chandler
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2014-12-02
The World Of Raymond Chandler written by Raymond Chandler and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Raymond Chandler never wrote a memoir or autobiography. The closest he came to writing either was in—and around—his novels, shorts stories, and letters. There have been books that describe and evaluate Chandler’s life, but to find out what he himself felt about his life and work, Barry Day, editor of The Letters of Noël Coward (“There is much to dazzle here in just the way we expect . . . the book is meticulous, artfully structured—splendid” —Daniel Mendelsohn; The New York Review of Books), has cannily, deftly chosen from Chandler’s writing, as well as the many interviews he gave over the years as he achieved cult status, to weave together an illuminating narrative that reveals the man, the work, the worlds he created. Using Chandler’s own words as well as Day’s text, here is the life of “the man with no home,” a man precariously balanced between his classical English education with its immutable values and that of a fast-evolving America during the years before the Great War, and the changing vernacular of the cultural psyche that resulted. Chandler makes clear what it is to be a writer, and in particular what it is to be a writer of “hardboiled” fiction in what was for him “another language.” Along the way, he discusses the work of his contemporaries: Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Agatha Christie, W. Somerset Maugham, and others (“I wish,” said Chandler, “I had one of those facile plotting brains, like Erle Gardner”). Here is Chandler’s Los Angeles (“There is a touch of the desert about everything in California,” he said, “and about the minds of the people who live here”), a city he adopted and that adopted him in the post-World War I period . . . Here is his Hollywood (“Anyone who doesn’t like Hollywood,” he said, “is either crazy or sober”) . . . He recounts his own (rocky) experiences working in the town with Billy Wilder, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, and others. . .We see Chandler’s alter ego, Philip Marlowe, private eye, the incorruptible knight with little armor who walks the “mean streets” in a world not made for knights (“If I had ever an opportunity of selecting the movie actor who would best represent Marlowe to my mind, I think it would have been Cary Grant.”) . . . Here is Chandler on drinking (his life in the end was in a race with alcohol—and loneliness) . . . and here are Chandler’s women—the Little Sisters, the “dames” in his fiction, and in his life (on writing The Long Goodbye, Chandler said, “I watched my wife die by half inches and I wrote the best book in my agony of that knowledge . . . I was as hollow as the places between the stars.” After her death Chandler led what he called a “posthumous life” writing fiction, but more often than not, his writing life was made up of letters written to women he barely knew.) Interwoven throughout the text are more than one hundred pictures that reveal the psyche and world of Raymond Chandler. “I have lived my whole life on the edge of nothing,” he wrote. In his own words, and with Barry Day’s commentary, we see the shape this took and the way it informed the man and his extraordinary work.
Raymond Chandler S Philip Marlowe
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Author : Byron Preiss
language : en
Publisher: ibooks
Release Date : 2011-08-09
Raymond Chandler S Philip Marlowe written by Byron Preiss and has been published by ibooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-09 with Fiction categories.
This book is a homage to the greatest detective story writer of the 20th century, an Anglo-American who took Los Angeles, his adopted home, off the road maps and into the land of legend. For Raymond Chandler, who died in 1959, his literary descendants will do just about anything, and that includes contributing to an anthology honoring him. Thus, in here we find the likes of Sara Paretsky, Robert Crais, Loren D. Estleman, Jonathan Valin, Robert Campbell, Eric Van Lustbader, Simon Brett, Julie Smith, Jeremiah Healy, Roger L. Simon, James Grady, and numerous others creating stories in the style of Chandler and in the voice of Marlowe. But, as editor Byron Preiss remarks, "The contributors of this book are here to honor Chandler, not to steal from him."
The Big Sleep
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Author : Raymond Chandler
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-08-16
The Big Sleep written by Raymond Chandler and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-16 with Fiction categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Black Eyed Blonde
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Author : John Banville
language : en
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Release Date : 2014-03-04
The Black Eyed Blonde written by John Banville and has been published by Henry Holt and Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-04 with Fiction categories.
Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe returns in The Black-Eyed Blonde—also published as Marlowe as by John Banville—the basis for the major motion picture starring Liam Neeson as the iconic detective. "Somewhere Raymond Chandler is smiling . . . I loved this book. It was like having an old friend, one you assumed was dead, walk into the room." —Stephen King "It was one of those Tuesday afternoons in summer when you wonder if the earth has stopped revolving." The streets of Bay City, California, in the early 1950s are as mean as they get. Marlowe is as restless and lonely as ever, and the private eye business is a little slow. Then a new client is shown in: blond, beautiful, and expensively dressed, she wants Marlowe to find her former lover. Almost immediately, Marlowe discovers that the man's disappearance is merely the first in a series of bewildering events. Soon he is tangling with one of Bay City's richest and most ruthless families—and developing a singular appreciation for how far they will go to protect their fortune. “It’s vintage L.A., toots: The hot summer, rain on the asphalt, the woman with the lipstick, cigarette ash and alienation, V8 coupes, tough guys, snub-nosed pistols, the ice melting in the bourbon . . . . The results are Chandleresque, sure, but you can see Banville’s sense of fun.” —The Washington Post
Raymond Chandler S Philip Marlowe
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Author : Raymond Chandler
language : en
Publisher: iBooks
Release Date : 1999
Raymond Chandler S Philip Marlowe written by Raymond Chandler and has been published by iBooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with American fiction categories.
Twenty-five writers of mystery fiction present stories featuring Chandler's introspective private eye and his Southern California milieu.
Only To Sleep
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Author : Lawrence Osborne
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2018-09-06
Only To Sleep written by Lawrence Osborne and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-06 with Fiction categories.
Wealthy dead American. Beautiful young widow. This case has PI Philip Marlowe’s name written all over it. Is it enough to bring him back for one last adventure? The year is 1988. The place, Baja California. Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is living out his retirement sipping margaritas and playing cards when in saunter two men dressed like undertakers with a case that has his name written all over it. His mission is to investigate Donald Zinn – supposedly drowned off his yacht, leaving a much younger and now very rich wife. Marlowe’s speciality. But is Zinn actually alive? And are the pair living off the spoils? 'Osborne and Chandler are a perfect match' William Boyd Discover the rest of the inimitable Philip Marlowe series – nine classic Chandler adventures, from The Big Sleep to The Long Goodbye, available now in paperback and ebook from Penguin Books.
Raymond Chandler
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Author : Tom Hiney
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-12-15
Raymond Chandler written by Tom Hiney and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Born in Nabraska of Irish Quaker parents, educated at Dulwich College, and in the `mean streets' of Los Angeles about which he wrote, Raymond Chandler-writer, oil executive, poet, recluse, charmer, gentlman, drunk-was full of contradictions as his origins. His seven Philip Marlowe stories had sold 5 million copies by the time of his death in1059. Since the first authorised biography 20 years ago, much new material can be revealed about the man and his life. For this major new biography, Tom Hiney has had some access to unseen personal papers, as well as previously unrecorded reminiscences by those who knew him well and he vividly evokes the strange early years, brings alive the danerous glamour of the Hollywood era, and puts Chandler`s writing in the context of the crime and corruption in Prohibition LA. He gives illuminating details of friendships with Ian Fleming, Somerset Maugham, the Spenders, Alfred Hitchcock and fully records for the first time his relationship with Cissy, his wife of 30 years, 17 years his senior, and his paradoxical relations with other women.
Raymond Chandler Speaking
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Author : Raymond Chandler
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1997-04-30
Raymond Chandler Speaking written by Raymond Chandler and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-04-30 with Fiction categories.
Tough-minded and typically idiosyncratic, here is Chandler on Chandler, the mystery novel, writing, Hollywood, TV, publishing, cats, and famous crimes. This skillfully edited selection of letters, articles, and notes also includes the short story "A Couple of Writers" and the first chapters of Chandler's last Philip Marlowe novel, The Poodle Springs Story, left unfinished at his death. Paul Skenazy has provided a new introduction for this edition as well as a new selected bibliography. --Publisher description.