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Raymond Chandler

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Raymond Chandler. Stories & Early Novels
	Edited by: Frank MacShane Library of America ISBN: 1-883011-07-8 Series Number: 79 Product Code: 200792 Price: $35.00
With humor, and an unerring sense of dialogue and the telling details of dress and behavior, Chandler created a distinctive fictional universe out of the dark side of sunlit Los Angeles. Gathered here are the first three novels featuring the classic private eye Philip Marlowe. In The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; and The High Window: Marlowe's investigations lead him from Los Angeles shanties and honkytonks to the highest reaches of power, encountering a world of gangsters and crooked politicians, lost souls and small-time operators. Along with the novels are thirteen stories drawn from the pages of the classic pulp magazines Black Mask and Dime Detective, including such classics as "Red Wind" and "Trouble is My Business." This volume, with its companion, Later Novels & Other Writings, comprises the most comprehensive edition available of America's greatest mystery writer. "Philip Marlowe, wise-cracking detective...alongside editions of Melville, Twain and other titans. It's high time."—Newsweek.

Raymond Chandler. Later Novels & Other Writings
	Edited by: Frank MacShane Library of America ISBN: 1-883011-08-6 Series Number: 80 Product Code: 200800 Price: $35.00
Frank MacShane, editor. In Chandler's hands, the pulp crime story became a haunting mystery of power and corruption, set against a modern cityscape both lyrical and violent. The Lady in the Lake takes private eye Philip Marlowe out of the seamy L.A. streets to the surrounding mountains, where the search for a missing woman expands into an elegy of loneliness and loss. The Little Sister, with its bitter indictment of Hollywood, The Long Goodbye, with a plot hinging on friendship betrayed and the compromises of middle age, and Playback, the last Marlowe novel, uncover deeper resonances in the classic private eye. Also included is the screenplay for the film noir classic Double Indemnity; a selection of essays; and letters ranging wittily over the worlds of writing, publishing and filmmaking. This volume, along with its companion Stories & Early Novels, is the most comprehensive edition available of our greatest mystery writer. "Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since."—Paul Auster

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