The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler and English Summer
Author | : Raymond Chandler |
Publisher | : Ecco |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Raymond Chandler |
Publisher | : Ecco |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Raymond Chandler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : English fiction |
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Author | : Raymond Chandler |
Publisher | : Ecco |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Raymond Chandler |
Publisher | : Ecco |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-10-20 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780061227448 |
During a period of twenty years—from his start as a young writer for H. L. Mencken’s classic pulp magazine The Black Mask in the early 1930s, through the publication of his novels The Big Sleep and Farewell, My Lovely, to his career as a Hollywood screenwriter in the 1940s—Raymond Chandler kept a series of private notebooks. Drawn from those journals, The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler offers an intimate view of the writer at work, revealing early ideas, descriptions, and anecdotes that would later be used in The Long Goodbye, The Blue Dahlia, and other classics. Filled with both public and private writings, The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler includes “Marlowesque” particulars such as pickpocket lingo, San Quentin jailhouse slang, a “Note on the Tommygun,” and musings on “Craps.” Here, too, are surprising, lesser known essays on Hollywood, the mystery story, British and American writing, and a wicked parody of Hemingway. This sampler—by turns whimsical, provocative, irreverent, and fascinating—also contains a list of possible story titles; “Chandlerisms;” and his short work “English Summer: A Gothic Romance,” which the writer viewed as a turning point in his career.
Author | : Frank MacShane |
Publisher | : Hamish Hamilton |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1986-01-01 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
ISBN | : 9780241118085 |
Author | : Tom Williams |
Publisher | : Chicago Review Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2013-09-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1613748434 |
The life of Raymond Chandler has long been obscured by secrets and half-truths as deceptive as anything in his novel The Long Goodbye. Now, drawing on new interviews, previously unpublished letters, and archives on both sides of the Atlantic, Tom Williams casts a new light on this most mysterious of writers. The Raymond Chandler revealed is a man troubled by loneliness and desertion from an early age. Born in Chicago in 1888, his childhood was overshadowed by the collapse of his parents' marriage, his father's alcohol-fuelled violence eventually forcing the boy and his doting mother to leave for Ireland and later London. But class-bound England proved stifling, and Chandler, in his twenties and eager to forge a new life, returned to the United States where—in corruption-ridden Los Angeles—he met his one great love, Cissy Pascal, a married woman eighteen years his senior. It was only during middle age, after his alcoholism wrecked a lucrative career as an oilman, that Chandler seriously turned to crime fiction. And his legacy—the lonely, ambiguous world of Philip Marlowe—endures, compelling generations of crime writers to follow him. In this long-awaited new biography, Tom Williams shadows one of the true literary giants of the twentieth century and considers how crime writing was raised to the level of art.
Author | : Raymond Chandler |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2015-11-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0804170487 |
The World of Raymond Chandler shows how Chandler precariously balanced the values of a classical English education against those of a fast-evolving America during the years before the Great War; how he adopted Los Angeles as his home after WWI, with Hollywood in turn adopting him (and adapting his works); how his detective hero and alter ego Philip Marlowe evolved over the years; and, above all, what it is to be a writer, and in particular one writing in the “other language” of hardboiled fiction. Acclaimed biographer and historian Barry Day deftly interweaves images and text, using quotations from Chandler’s novels, short stories, letters, and interviews, to craft a unique portrait of the mystery writer’s life and times.
Author | : Raymond Chandler |
Publisher | : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2012-02-27 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0802194338 |
Selected letters and nonfiction of one of America’s most beloved writers “reveals the occasionally softer side of the man behind the hard-boiled mysteries” (Library Journal). The Raymond Chandler Papers brings together the correspondence and other previously uncollected writing of America’s undisputed master of crime fiction and creator of the iconic private eye Philip Marlowe, revealing all aspects of the great artist’s powerful personality and broad intellectual curiosity. Featuring a selection of Chandler’s previously unpublished early writings—including a gripping piece about his combat experiences in World War I—and an abandoned profile of the infamous mobster “Lucky” Luciano, The Raymond Chandler Papers is a must-have for all true fans and an important contribution toward understanding the life and work of the enigmatic man Evelyn Waugh called “the greatest living American novelist.” “Since this is Chandler’s writing, quotable, funny, even hilarious comments appear on every page.” —Publishers Weekly
Author | : Tony Abbott |
Publisher | : Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2017-10-17 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0374305501 |
A gripping middle-grade novel from an award-winning author about a boy who must figure out how to save his best friend from abuse.
Author | : Raymond Chandler |
Publisher | : Everyman's Library |
Total Pages | : 1337 |
Release | : 2002-10-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0375415009 |
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 twenty-five 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