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Stories and Early Novels
Pulp Stories/the Big Sleep/Farewell, My Lovely/the High Window
by Raymond Chandler
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Now that Raymond Chandler's work has been admitted into the Library of America, his legendary gumshoe Philip Marlowe joins Captain Ahab and Huckleberry Finn among the ranks of legendary fictional characters. This collection of his earliest stories exemplifies how Chandler transformed conventions of pulp fiction and elevated the detective story to an art form, a distinction which has made him one of the greatest mystery writers ever.
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9781883011079,
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Library of America,
1995
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Publisher Notes
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.
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"Philip Marlowe, wisecracking detective, gets two volumes in the Library of America....It's high time....[Chandler is a] literary genius with a sense of humor--what more do you want?"
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