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Finestra Sul Vuoto
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Author : Raymond Chandler
language : it
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
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Finestra Sul Vuoto
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Author : Raymond Chandler
language : it
Publisher: Adelphi Edizioni spa
Release Date : 2024-03-12T00:00:00+01:00
Finestra Sul Vuoto written by Raymond Chandler and has been published by Adelphi Edizioni spa this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-12T00:00:00+01:00 with Fiction categories.
L’aria di Pasadena è «immobile, rovente e profumata» quando Marlowe, sigaretta spenta fra le labbra e cappello calcato sulla fronte, fa il suo ingresso nella sontuosa residenza di Mrs. Elizabeth Murdock. L’incarico che la donna gli prospetta dalla sua chaise-longue di vimini, mentre si scola un bicchiere di porto dopo l’altro, non si direbbe dei più difficili, né dei più pericolosi: ritrovare un’antica e rarissima moneta d’oro – il prezioso doblone Brasher – sottratta alla collezione del defunto marito, probabilmente dalla nuora scomparsa. Ma non appena Marlowe fiuta una pista promettente e sente a portata di mano la soluzione del caso, una serie di omicidi indecifrabili fa calare sull’indagine una fitta coltre di mistero. Per vederci chiaro dovrà spingersi a Bunker Hill – «città vecchia, perduta, fatiscente e piena di balordi» – e frugare palazzi popolati da inquilini sfuggenti, portieri che «sono sempre un po’ cani da guardia e un po’ ruffiani», «uomini anziani dai volti che sembrano battaglie perse». Niente, comunque, che un detective del suo calibro, armato come sempre di laconico cinismo e un'aria imperturbabile da eroe romantico, non possa affrontare, e come sempre nella sua inimitabile maniera, attraversando la nera notte di Los Angeles fra ricatti, night club, pinte di whisky e segreti celati dal tempo.
Finestra Sul Vuoto
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Author : Raymond Chandler
language : it
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
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The High Window
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Author : Raymond Chandler
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-08-16
The High Window 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.
Raymond Chandler's 'The High Window' is a quintessential example of hard-boiled detective fiction, imbued with the author's signature blend of sharp dialogue, complex plotting, and a richly described 1940s Los Angeles backdrop. This third novel in Chandler's oeuvre follows the cynical private detective Philip Marlowe as he navigates a sordid web of murder, blackmail, and family secrets, beginning with the seemingly straightforward task of recovering a wealthy widow's stolen coin. Chandler's prose, characterized by its trenchant wit and metaphorical richness, brings the seedy underbelly of the city to life, placing this work firmly within the literary context of mid-20th-century American crime fiction. Chandler's own experiences in the oil industry and as a Hollywood screenwriter undoubtedly color the pessimism and moral ambiguity that define his hard-nosed protagonist and the unsentimental portrayal of the societal elite. 'The High Window', like many of Chandler's novels, reflects the disillusionment of its era while also casting a critical eye on the veneer of respectability that conceals the rot within the American Dream. His narrative skill ensures the reader is swept along in Marlowe's investigation, making each twist and revelation both a surprise and an inevitability in the gritty landscape Chandler so masterfully depicts. 'The High Window' is recommended with enthusiasm to readers who cherish detective tales that not only offer a compelling mystery but also serve as a vehicle for exploring deeper ethical and societal concerns. Chandler's work transcends the genre's boundaries, achieving the status of literature through its exploration of human nature and critique of social mores. This novel will appeal to aficionados of classic crime novels and those who appreciate the artistry with which Chandler weaves his suspenseful yarns. DigiCat Publishing's commitment to honoring the literary legacy of 'The High Window' ensures that both new and returning readers will find much to admire in this timeless classic.
The High Window
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Author : Raymond Chandler
language : en
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Release Date : 2002-06-11
The High Window 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. A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin worth a small fortune—the elements don't quite add up until Marlowe discovers evidence of murder, rape, blackmail, and the worst kind of human exploitation. "Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude." Erle Stanley Gardner "Raymond Chandler has given us a detective who is hard-boiled enough to be convincing . . . and that is no mean achievement." --The New York Times
The High Window
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Author : Raymond Chandler
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-03-29
The High Window written by Raymond Chandler and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-29 with categories.
Philip Marlowe's client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband's collection. Easy. Probably too easy. Unfortunately, each time the Doubloon pops up, so does a murder. That's unlucky for a private investigator, because leaving a trail of corpses around LA gets cops' noses out of joint. If Marlowe doesn't wrap this one up fast, he's going to end up in jail - or worse, in a box in the ground. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
The High Window
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Author : Raymond Chandler
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-11-10
The High Window written by Raymond Chandler and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-10 with categories.
Philip Marlowe's client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband's collection. Easy. Probably too easy. Unfortunately, each time the Doubloon pops up, so does a murder. That's unlucky for a private investigator, because leaving a trail of corpses around LA gets cops' noses out of joint. If Marlowe doesn't wrap this one up fast, he's going to end up in jail - or worse, in a box in the ground.
The High Window
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Author : Raymond Chandler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-07-14
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The body count in this thriller, starring Chandler's quintessential Private Eye: Philip Marlowe, is comparatively higher compared than some of his other works. One could say the bodies fall one-two-three-four as Marlowe tracks down a missing gold doubloon. Who knew one piece of metal could lead to so much trouble? As always, Chandler's prose is on his own level, however unpleasant Marlowe's cases may become. What I find fascinating in Chandler's detective novels is the extraordinary contrast in terms of character development. Trophy wives and strong-armed husbands all undergo serious emotional upheaval, death, and unforgettable changes to their lives; while our companion Phillip Marlowe, ever the frank, gruff shamus, never has any of this himself. While he may have guns pointed at him, framed for murder, or beaten up and tossed in the slammer (The Long Goodbye), Marlowe always goes back to his home to play chess, drink gin and smoke a cigarette.
The American Detective Novel In Translation
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Author : Daniel Peter LINDER MOLIN
language : en
Publisher: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca
Release Date : 2011-09-01
The American Detective Novel In Translation written by Daniel Peter LINDER MOLIN and has been published by Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-01 with Fiction categories.
Empleando una metodología propia de los estudios descriptivos de traduc- ción, se analiza un corpus de cuatro novelas del autor norteamericano Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep, 1939; Farewell, My Lovely, 1940; The Little Sister, 1949; y The Long Goodbye, 1954) y las traducciones al español publica- das en Argentina y España.
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.