e-Book The Lady in the Lake', 'the Little Sister', 'the Long Goodbye', 'Playback (Everyman's Library Classics) download

by Raymond Chandler

ISBN: 1857152565
ISBN13: 978-1857152562
Language: English
Publisher: Gardners Books (August 31, 2002)
Category: Contemporary
Subategory: Literature

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Everyman Library offers quality books which are worth the purchase price

Everyman Library offers quality books which are worth the purchase price. I love Raymond Chandler's stories and the Phillip Marlowe character. Have read several biographies about Chandler and his wife Cissy, and found their lives almost as interesting as Ray's fiction. As you near the end of this second volume of Philip Marlowe novels (say, about halfway through The Long Goodbye) you can't help but get a little sad at the thought that soon you will have read them all and there will be no more.

The Raymond Chandler Papers brings together the correspondence and other previously uncollected writing of America's .

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 Phillip Marlowe, revealing all aspects of the great artist's powe. Raymond Chandler: A Biography. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Raymond Chandler is an uncensored look at the tortured man who wrote the classic mystery novels The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye. Using recently uncovered archival materials including personal papers and corres.

The Little Sister takes Marlowe to Hollywood, where he tries to find a sweet young thing's missing brother, uncovering on the .

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.

The second Raymond Chandler omnibus, containing his last 4 novels in. .The Little Sister" is also quite good, although I was scratching my head a little at the end.

The second Raymond Chandler omnibus, containing his last 4 novels in one sweet-looking hardcover.

Part of Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics Series. Category: Noir Mysteries Fiction Classics. Creator of the famous Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler elevated the American hard-boiled detective genre to an art form

Part of Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics Series. Oct 15, 2002 ISBN 9780375415029. 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.

Home Raymond Chandler The Lady in the Lake. It’s on a private lake. Collected Stories (Everyman's Library). The Lady in the Lake. The lady in the lake, . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23. raymond. Vintage crlme/black lizard. There’s a dam three of us put up to improve the property. The Simple Art of Murder.

Published by Everyman's Library, 2002. ISBN 10: 0375415025, ISBN 13: 9780375415029. AbeBooks has millions of books. We've listed similar copies below. 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.

The lady in the lake.

The Lady in the Lake (1943). A couple of missing wives-one a rich man’s and one a poor man’s become the objects of Marlowe’s investigation. One of them may have gotten a Mexican divorce and married a gigolo and the other may be dead. Marlowe’s not sure he cares about either one, but he’s not paid to care. eISBN: 978-1-4000-3018-7. Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake.

Crime fiction master Raymond Chandler's fourth novel featuring Philip Marlowe, the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times). In The Lady in the Lake, hardboiled crime fiction master Raymond Chandler brings us the story of a couple of missing wives-one a rich man's and one a poor man's-who have become the objects of Philip Marlowe's investigation. Marlowe's not sure he cares about either one, but he's not paid to care.

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Honeirsil

This is a wonderful volume. The four stories in the book are classics, a joy to read. The book also contains a good scholarly easy-to-read introduction. The $25.60 price means that each of the four tales cost a little over $6, cheap for what one is getting, hours of pleasure. The book itself looks great on my shelf.
Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) published seven full-length novels during his lifetime along with some 25 short stories. His eighth full-length novel was completed and published by Robert B. Parker after his death. Chandler is considered by many to be the founder of the hard-boiled school of detective fiction. Chandler cannibalized some of his short stories, such as combining two of his short stories to produce a full-length novel. He did so, for example, with “The Big Sleep,” combining the two short stories “Killer in the rain” (published in 1935) and “The Curtain” (published in 1936); and also inserted small parts of “Finger Man” and “Mandarin Jade.” “The Big Sleep,” a reference to Philip Marlowe’s attitude to death, was published in 1939 as his first novel as well as the first hard-boil crime novel with hard-nosed private detective Philip Marlowe. In 1950, Chandler wrote an introduction where he reflects on writing pulp mysteries like his own. These stories, he tells, stressed the atmosphere of the events, times, and places, rather than the plot. “(T)he scene outranked the plot…. The ideal mystery was one you would read if the end was missing.” In the good hard-boiled story there is “some very determined individual (who) makes it his business to see that justice is done.
All of his novels, with the sole exception of his last novel Playback, which is in this book, published in 1958, were made into movies, some more than once.

Jugami

Read US service men were supplied with pocket size versions of selected Everyman Library titles. Supposedly some American GI's carried Everyman books during D-Day invasion. Everyman Library offers quality books which are worth the purchase price. I love Raymond Chandler's stories and the Phillip Marlowe character. Have read several biographies about Chandler and his wife Cissy, and found their lives almost as interesting as Ray's fiction. No doubt Chandler's knowledge about Los Angeles and the crime and corruption there influenced his writing greatly. Chandler's early education, astute observations of human nature, and his knack to transfer it so emphatically to paper made him the gold standard among crime writers. IMO if you're going to read just one Chandler book by all means make it 'The Big Sleep.' Note: Recommend the 'Library of America' books also.

Steep

Knopf is the name associated with "Black Mask" stories and hardboiled genre, so it is perhaps suitable that Chandler's greatest works have been published so handsomely by Knopf, that beats even the Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels: Pulp Stories / The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely / The High Window (Library of America) and Raymond Chandler: Later Novels and Other Writings: The Lady in the Lake / The Little Sister / The Long Goodbye / Playback /Double Indemnity / Selected Essays and Letters (Library of America)version in its elegance & strength. The novels themselves are almost gold-standards of hardboiled or mystery fiction, and should be considered as great pieces of literature on their own. Highly recommended.

Rainshaper

It's Chandler. What's not to love?

Jia

Great writing

Trash Obsession

This is a beautiful book, very readable type, great writing by one of the masters of the genre. Definitely recommend.

Mash

As you near the end of this second volume of Philip Marlowe novels (say, about halfway through The Long Goodbye) you can't help but get a little sad at the thought that soon you will have read them all and there will be no more.

Chandler is A+