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Raymond Chandler: Collected Stories (Everyman's Library) by Raymond Chandler
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Raymond Chandler's Phillip Marlowe was one of the characters who set the style for today's hard-boiled detective fiction.
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Raymond Chandler: Collected Stories (Everyman's Library) by Raymond Chandler
Features
Hardcover:
1344 pages
; Dimensions (in inches): 2.34 x 8.36 x 5.30
Publisher: Knopf; (October 8, 2002)
ISBN:
0375415009
Book Description
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.
Reader Reviews
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Addendum for completists (like me)..., October 9, 2003
Reviewer:
eddie_denman
from Omaha, NE United States
Strictly speaking, there is one short story of Raymond Chandler's that this volume does not include: A Couple of Writers. But it is not a *crime* story, may have had a few autobiographical elements, and went unpublished for a long time. So this book's claim could, I suppose, still be seen as valid. If you're curious about this last story (it is a straight dramatic piece about a novelist and a playwrite, and their marriage on the rocks), you may find it in the otherwise thoroughly unnecessary book entitled Raymond Chandler Speaking.
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