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Raymond Chandler:
Stories and Early Novels (1995).
Anthology by Raymond
Chandler.
Edited by Frank MacShane.
ISBN-10: 1883011078
ISBN-13: 978-1883011079
Contents:
Pulp Stories:
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot; Smart-Aleck Kill; Finger Man; Nevada Gas; Spanish
Blood; Guns at Cyrano’s; Pick-Up on Noon Street; Goldfish; Red Wind; The King
in Yellow; Pearls Are a Nuisance; Trouble Is My Business; I’ll Be Waiting.
Novels: The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window. Chronology. Note
on the texts. Notes.
Description:
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. With humor, and an unerring
sense of dialogue and the telling detail, he created a fictional universe out
of the dark side of aunlit Los Angeles. In the process, he transformed both the
crime novel and American writing.
Stories and Early Novels includes the first three novels featuring Chandler’s great
creation, private eye Philip Marlowe: tough, disillusioned, and sensitive. 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. Thirteen stories from the pulp magazines Black
Mask and Dime Detective include 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.
The
Library of America, a nonprofit publisher, is dedicated to preserving the works
of America’s greatest writers in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring
authoritative texts.
