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Chandler, Raymond
McShane, Frank MacShane, Frank
ISBN: 9781883011079
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Library of America
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Stories and Early Novels includes every story that Chandler did not later incorporate into a novel - thirteen in all. Drawn from the pages of Black Mask and Dime Detective, these stories show how Chandler adapted the violent conventions of the pulp magazines - with their brisk exposition and rapid-fire dialogue - to his own emerging vision of 20th-century America. Raymond Chandler…
Stories and Early Novels includes every story that Chandler did not later incorporate into a novel - thirteen in all. Drawn from the pages of Black Mask and Dime Detective, these stories show how Chandler adapted the violent conventions of the pulp magazines - with their brisk exposition and rapid-fire dialogue - to his own emerging vision of 20th-century America. Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels contains a newly researched chronology of Chandler's life, explanatory notes, and an essay on the texts.
| ISBN | 1883011078 | | DEWEY | FIC | | ISBN13 | 9781883011079
(What's this?) | | Pages | 1216 | | Publisher | Library of America | | Volumes | 1 | | Imprint | LIBRARY OF AMERICA | | Weight (grammes) | 763 | | Format | Hardback | | Series ISSN | 80 | | Publication date | 01 Oct 1995 | | Height (mm) | 205 | | Library of Congress | 94045462 | | Width (mm) | 135 |
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| | | Blackmailers Don't Shoot | | 5 | | | | Smart-Aleck Kill | | 52 | | | | Finger Man | | 94 | | | | Nevada Gas | | 146 | | | | Spanish Blood | | 191 | | | | Guns at Cyrano's | | 235 | | | | Pick-Up on Noon Street | | 285 | | | | Goldfish | | 326 | | | | Red Wind | | 368 | | | | The King in Yellow | | 418 | | | | Pearls Are a Nuisance | | 469 | | | | Trouble Is My Business | | 514 | | | | I'll Be Waiting | | 569 | | | | The Big Sleep | | 587 | | | | Farewell, My Lovely | | 765 | | | | The High Window | | 985 | | | | Chronology | | 1181 | | | | Note on the Texts | | 1191 | | | | Notes | | 1194 |
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