The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window, Chandler Raymond

Автор: Chandler Raymond
Название: Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 4: The Big Sleep
ISBN: 0194791653 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780194791656
Издательство: Oxford University Press
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Описание: Word count 15,960

Автор: Chandler Raymond
Название: Farewell, My Lovely
ISBN: 0241954355 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241954355
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Eight years ago Moose Malloy and cute little redhead Velma were getting married - until someone framed Malloy for armed robbery. Now his stretch is up and he wants Velma back. PI Philip Marlow meets Malloy one hot day in Hollywood and, out of the generosity of his jaded heart, agrees to help him.

Автор: Chandler Raymond
Название: Lady in the lake
ISBN: 0241956323 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241956328
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Автор: Chandler Raymond
Название: High Window
ISBN: 0140108939 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140108934
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Описание: Philip Marlowe`s on a case: his client wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband`s collection. It becomes complicated when Marlowe finds that everyone who handles the coin suffers a run of very bad luck: they always end up dead.

Автор: Chandler Raymond
Название: Farewell, My Lovely
ISBN: 014010979X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140109795
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: A warm day on Central Avenue, and Philip Marlowe`s hunch about the man beside him is as vague as the heat waves that dance above the sidewalk. Moose Malloy stands six five and one-half and weighs two hundred and sixty-four pounds. After eight years in the pen, he wants little Velma back, and no cops or mobsters are ready to stand in his way.

Автор: Chandler Raymond
Название: Big sleep
ISBN: 0140108920 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140108927
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. But with Sternwood`s two wild, devil-may-care daughters prowling LA`s seedy backstreets, Marlowe`s got his work cut out.

Автор: Chandler Raymond
Название: The Simple Art of Murder
ISBN: 0394757653 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780394757650
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: In The Simple Art of Murder, which was prefaced by the famous Atlantic Monthly essay of the same name, noir master Raymond Chandler argues the virtues of the hard-boiled detective novel, and this collection, mostly drawn from stories he wrote for the pulps, demonstrates Chandler's imaginative, entertaining facility with the form. Included are the classic stories "Spanish Blood," Pearls Are a Nuisance," and "Guns at Cyrano's," among others.

Автор: Chandler Raymond
Название: Trouble Is My Business
ISBN: 0394757645 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780394757643
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Chandler Raymond
Название: The Long Goodbye
ISBN: 0394757688 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780394757681
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Crime fiction master Raymond Chandler's sixth novel featuring Philip Marlowe, the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times).

In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, whom he divorced and remarried and who ends up dead. And now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe.

Автор: Chandler Raymond
Название: The Little Sister
ISBN: 039475767X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780394757674
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Chandler Raymond
Название: The Big Sleep
ISBN: 0394758285 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780394758282
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Описание: In crime fiction master Raymond Chandler's iconic first novel, a dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, and Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in.
"Chandler writes] like a slumming angel and invest s] the sun-blinded streets of Los Angelos with a romantic presence."
--Ross Macdonald

Автор: Chandler Raymond
Название: The Lady in the Lake and Other Novels
ISBN: 0141186089 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141186085
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: An omnibus comprising Raymond Chandler`s three Philip Marlowe novels, THE LADY IN THE LAKE, THE HIGH WINDOW and THE LITTLE SISTER.

Автор: Chandler Raymond
Название: Chandler: Stories and Early Novels
ISBN: 1883011078 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781883011079
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: In Raymond Chandler's hands, the pulp crime story became a haunting mystery of power and corruption, set against a modern cityscape both lyrical and violent. Now Chandler joins the authoritative Library of America series in a comprehensive two-volume set displaying all the facets of his brilliant talent.

In his first novel, The Big Sleep (1939), the classic private eye finds his full-fledged form as Philip Marlowe: at once tough, independent, brash, disillusioned, and sensitive--and man of weary honor threading his way (in Chandler's phrase) "down these mean streets" among blackmailers, pornographers, and murderers for hire.

In Farewell, My Lovely (1940), Chandler's personal favorite among his novels, Marlowe's search for a missing woman leads him from shanties and honky-tonks to the highest reaches of power, encountering an array of richly drawn characters. The High Window (1942), about a rare coin that becomes a catalyst by which a hushed-up crime comes back to haunt a wealthy family, is partly a humorous burlesque of pulp fiction. All three novels show Chandler at a peak of verbal inventiveness and storytelling drive

Stories and Early Novels also includes every classic noir story from the 1930s that Chandler did not later incorporate into a novel--thirteen in all, among them such classics as "Red Wind," "Finger Man," The King in Yellow," and "Trouble Is My Business." Drawn from the pages of Black Mask and Dime Detective, these stories show how Chandler adapted the violent conventions of the pulp magazine--with their brisk exposition and rapid-fire dialogue--to his own emerging vision of twentieth-century America.

Автор: Chandler Raymond
Название: Chandler: Later Novels and Other Writings
ISBN: 1883011086 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781883011086
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: With humor, along with an unerring sense of dialogue and the telling details of dress and behavior, Raymond Chandler created a distinctive fictional universe out of the dark side of sunlit Los Angeles. In the process, he transformed both crime writing and the American language.

Written during the war, The Lady in the Lake (1943) takes Philip Marlowe out of the seamy L.A. streets to the deceptive tranquility of the surrounding mountains, as the search for a businessman's missing wife expands into an elegy of loneliness and loss. The darker tone typical of Chandler's later fiction is evident in The Little Sister (1949), in which an ambitious starlet, a blackmailer, and a seemingly naive young woman from Manhattan, Kansas, are the key players in a plot that provides fuel for a bitter indictment of Hollywood and Chandler's most savage portrayal of his adopted city.

The Long Goodbye (1953), his most ambitious and self-revealing novel, uncovers a more anguished resonance in the Marlowe character, in a plot that hinges on the betrayal of friendship and the compromises of middle age. Playback (1958), written originally as a screenplay, is Chandler's seventh and last novel.

A special feature of this volume is Chandler's long-unavailable screenplay for the film noir classic, Double Indemnity (1944), adapted from James M. Cain's novel. Written with director Billy Wilder, it is one of the best screenplays in American cinema, masterful in construction and dialogue. Supplementing the volume, and providing a more personal glimpse of Chandler's personality, is a selection of letters and essays--including "The Simple Art of Murder," in which Chandler muses on his pulp roots and on the special qualities of his hero and style.