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Collected Stories
by Raymond Chandler
ISBN: 0375415009
ISBN-13: 9780375415005
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
This Everyman's Library volume brings together all of Raymond Chandler's short fiction,
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Everymans Library
Published date: 2002
Size: 5.75 x 8.35 inches
Weight: 2.7 pounds
Pages: 1299
Publisher's Notes
The only complete edition of stories by the undisputed master of detective literature, collected here for the first time in one volume, including some stories that have been unavailable for decades.
When Raymond Chandler turned to writing at the age of forty-five, he began by publishing stories in pulp magazines such as Black Mask before later writing his famous novels. These stories are where Chandler honed his art and developed his uniquely vivid underworld, peopled with good cops and bad cops, informers and extortionists, lethally predatory blondes and redheads, and crime, sex, gambling, and alcohol in abundance. In addition to his classic hard-boiled stories—in which his signature atmosphere of depravity and violence swirls around the cool, intuitive loners whose type culminated in the famous detective Philip Marlowe—Chandler also turned his hand to fantasy and even a gothic romance. This rich treasury of 25 stories shows Chandler developing the terse, laconic, understated style that would serve him so well in his later masterpieces, and immerses the reader in the richly realized fictional universe that has become an enduring part of our literary landscape.
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Collected Stories
Chandler, Raymond
North Clarendon, Vermont, U.S.A.: Everymans Library, 2002 Hard Cover. Good/Good. Ex-Library. ( more information) Offered by Book Castle (United States)
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Chandler, Raymond
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