The Lady In The Lake The Little Sister The Long Goodbye Playback

Author : Raymond Chandler
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 1007 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780375415029

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The Lady in the Lake, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, Playback by Raymond Chandler Pdf

Creator of the famous Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler elevated the American hard-boiled detective genre to an art form. Chandler’s last four novels, published here in one volume, offer ample opportunity to savor the unique and utterly compelling fictional world that made his works modern classics. The Lady in the Lake moves Marlowe out of his usual habitat of city streets and into the mountains outside of Los Angeles in his strange search for a missing woman. The Little Sister takes Marlowe to Hollywood, where he tries to find a sweet young thing’s missing brother, uncovering on the way a little blackmail, a lot of drugs, and more than enough murder. In The Long Goodbye, a case involving a war-scarred drunk and his nymphomaniac wife has Marlowe constantly on the move: a psychotic gangster’s on his trail, he’s in trouble with the cops, and more and more corpses keep turning up. Playback features a well-endowed redhead who leads Marlowe to the California coast to solve a tale of big money and, of course, murder. Throughout these masterpieces, Marlowe’s wry humor and existential sense of his job prove yet again why he has become one of the most recognized and imitated characters in fiction. Featuring the iconic character that inspired the forthcoming film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.

Author : Raymond Chandler
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547190479

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The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Lady in the Lake" 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.

Author : Raymond Chandler
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 1216 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1995-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1883011078

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Raymond Chandler: Stories & Early Novels (LOA #79) by Raymond Chandler Pdf

In Raymond Chandler’s hands, the pulp crime story became a haunting mystery of power and corruption, set against a modern cityscape both lyrical and violent. Now Chandler joins the authoritative Library of America series in a comprehensive two-volume set displaying all the facets of his brilliant talent. In his first novel, The Big Sleep (1939), the classic private eye finds his full-fledged form as Philip Marlowe: at once tough, independent, brash, disillusioned, and sensitive—and man of weary honor threading his way (in Chandler’s phrase) “down these mean streets” among blackmailers, pornographers, and murderers for hire. In Farewell, My Lovely (1940), Chandler’s personal favorite among his novels, Marlowe’s search for a missing woman leads him from shanties and honky-tonks to the highest reaches of power, encountering an array of richly drawn characters. The High Window (1942), about a rare coin that becomes a catalyst by which a hushed-up crime comes back to haunt a wealthy family, is partly a humorous burlesque of pulp fiction. All three novels show Chandler at a peak of verbal inventiveness and storytelling drive Stories and Early Novels also includes every classic noir story from the 1930s that Chandler did not later incorporate into a novel—thirteen in all, among them such classics as “Red Wind,” “Finger Man,” The King in Yellow," and “Trouble Is My Business.” Drawn from the pages of Black Mask and Dime Detective, these stories show how Chandler adapted the violent conventions of the pulp magazine—with their brisk exposition and rapid-fire dialogue—to his own emerging vision of twentieth-century America. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Author : Raymond Chandler
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547190363

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Playback by Raymond Chandler Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Playback" 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.

Author : Raymond Chandler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 0345223969

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The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler Pdf

Author : Raymond Chandler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012010406

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The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler Pdf

Author : Raymond Chandler
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 1762 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:SMP2200000103987

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The Classic Collection of Raymond Chandler. Сomplete collection of novels. Illustrated by Raymond Chandler Pdf

The Big Sleep Farewell, My Lovely The High Window The Lady in the Lake The Little Sister The Long Goodbye Playback

Author : Raymond Chandler
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547189206

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Trouble is My Business by Raymond Chandler Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Trouble is My Business" 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.

Author : Raymond Chandler
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551998701

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The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler Pdf

In his fourth novel appearance, private investigator Philip Marlowe is hired to find a businessman’s estranged wife, but instead finds a series of dead bodies and crooked cops. Although Chandler himself adapted the novel into a screenplay, it has never been used. The novel was filmed by Robert Montgomery, using a different, shorter script. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.

Author : Gene D. Phillips
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813160016

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Creatures of Darkness by Gene D. Phillips Pdf

“[An] exhaustively researched survey of Raymond Chandler’s thorny relationship with Hollywood during the classic period of film noir.” —Alain Silver, film producer and author Raymond Chandler’s seven novels, including The Big Sleep (1939) and The Long Goodbye (1953), with their pessimism and grim realism, had a direct influence on the emergence of film noir. Chandler worked to give his crime novels the flavor of his adopted city, Los Angeles, which was still something of a frontier town, rife with corruption and lawlessness. In addition to novels, Chandler wrote short stories and penned the screenplays for several films, including Double Indemnity (1944) and Strangers on a Train (1951). His work with Billy Wilder and Alfred Hitchcock on these projects was fraught with the difficulties of collaboration between established directors and an author who disliked having to edit his writing on demand. Creatures of Darkness is the first major biocritical study of Chandler in twenty years. Gene Phillips explores Chandler’s unpublished script for Lady in the Lake, examines the process of adaptation of the novel Strangers on a Train, discusses the merits of the unproduced screenplay for Playback, and compares Howard Hawks’s director’s cut of The Big Sleep with the version shown in theaters. Through interviews he conducted with Wilder, Hitchcock, Hawks, and Edward Dmytryk over the past several decades, Phillips provides deeper insight into Chandler’s sometimes difficult personality. Chandler’s wisecracking private eye, Philip Marlowe, has spawned a thousand imitations. Creatures of Darkness lucidly explains the author’s dramatic impact on both the literary and cinematic worlds, demonstrating the immeasurable debt that both detective fiction and the neo-noir films of today owe to Chandler’s stark vision.

Author : Elizabeth Haynes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781591589198

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Crime Writers by Elizabeth Haynes Pdf

This invaluable resource provides information about and sources for researching 50 of the top crime genre writers, including websites and other online resources. Crime Writers: A Research Guide is an easy-to-use launch pad for learning more about crime fiction authors, including those who write traditional mystery novels, suspense novels, and thrillers with crime elements. Emphasizing the best and most popular writers, the book covers approximately 50 contemporary authors, plus a few classics like Agatha Christie. Each entry provides a brief quotation that gives some indication of writing style; a biographical sketch; lists of major works and awards; and research sources, including websites, biographies, criticism, and research guides. There are also read-alikes for selected authors. Of special note is the inclusion of websites and other online resources, such as blogs and social networking sites, which are often overlooked in author-reference sources. The book also provides an overview of the genre and subgenres, a timeline, and a comprehensive bibliography. An ideal resource for genre studies and literature classes, this guide will also be invaluable to readers' advisors, book club leaders, students, and genre fans.

Author : Lucy Andrew,Samuel Saunders
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783030749897

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The Detective's Companion in Crime Fiction by Lucy Andrew,Samuel Saunders Pdf

This book aims to establish the position of the sidekick character in the crime and detective fiction literary genres. It re-evaluates the traditional view that the sidekick character in these genres is often overlooked as having a small, generic or singular role—either to act as the foil to the detective in order to accentuate their own abilities at solving crimes, or else to simply tell the story to the reader. Instead, essays in the collection explore the representations and functions of the detective’s sidekick across a range of forms and subgenres of crime fiction. By incorporating forms such as children’s detective fiction, comics and graphic novels and film and television alongside the more traditional fare of novels and short stories, this book aims to break down the boundaries that sometimes exist between these forms, using the sidekick as a defining thread to link them together into a wider conceptual argument that covers a broad range of crime narratives.

Author : John Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004-07-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781411609976

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Hollywood Classics 2 by John Reid Pdf

What makes a "B" movie? This survey examines a hundred typical "B" movies (with complete cast and credit details)from Hollywood's Golden Age, including good movies ("Charlie Chan at Treasure Island", bad movies ("Dangerous Cargo") and cult movies ("Abbott and Costello Meet Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde").

Author : Alexander N. Howe
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786434541

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It Didn't Mean Anything by Alexander N. Howe Pdf

This critical study of American detective fiction examines the history and development of the detective genre through the lens of psychoanalysis. Applying the ideas of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, the author identifies and categorizes popular works according to the fictional protagonist's hysteria, obsessive neurosis, perversion or psychosis. The first chapter identifies several instances of hysteria within the fiction of two of the genre's pioneers, Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle. Chapter Two traces the development of the hard-boiled detective's code of honor through the works of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Mickey Spillane, identifying the often-paradoxical nature of this code and its origins in obsessive neurosis. Chapter Three analyzes the anti-detective fiction of Philip K. Dick in terms of paranoid psychosis, and the final chapter returns to the question of hysteria, taking up the female hard-boiled detectives of author Marcia Muller.

Author : Raymond Chandler
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1997-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0520208358

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Raymond Chandler Speaking by Raymond Chandler Pdf

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.