Raymond Chandler: a documentary volume
Chronicles the career of Raymond Chandler from an aspiring man of letters in London to a professional novelist and literary celebrity who achieved commercial success and established an enduring reputation as a great American novelist. His novels are works of perceptive social realism that capture and interpret American life between 1939 and 1959. He wrote seven of the best novels in the American hard-boiled tradition, as well as lyrical and evocative prose.
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- Full title :Raymond Chandler : a documentary volume / edited by Robert F. Moss.
Summary
Chronicles the career of Raymond Chandler from an aspiring man of letters in London to a professional novelist and literary celebrity who achieved commercial success and established an enduring reputation as a great American novelist. His novels are works of perceptive social realism that capture and interpret American life between 1939 and 1959. He wrote seven of the best novels in the American hard-boiled tradition, as well as lyrical and evocative prose.
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- Publication Date:2002.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Gale Group
- Place of Publication:Detroit, Mich
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2002.
Notes
"A Bruccoli Clark Layman book."
The Physical Object
- Description:xxviii, 404 pages : : illustrations, portraits ; : 29 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0787652474, 9780787652470
- oclc:ocm48667718
- LC Classification:PS3505.H3224
- Dewey Decimal:813/.52
Table of Contents
Books by Raymond Chandler -- Raymond Chandler: a chronology of his career and writings -- Chandler before the pulps, 1888-1932 -- Apprenticeship and The big sleep, 1933-1939 -- Early novels, 1939-1944: Farewell, my lovely; The high window; and The ladyin the lake -- The Hollywood years, 1943-1947 -- The return of a novelist, 1947-1952: The little sister -- The last years, 1952-1959: The long goodbye and Playback -- Chandler's popular and literary legacy.
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