Raymond Chandler: Later Novels & Other Writings (The Lady in the Lake, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, Playback, Double Indemnity, Selected Essays and Letters) (Library of America)

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Later Novels and Other Writings begins with The Lady in the Lake (1943). Written during the war, the story takes 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
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Later Novels and Other Writings begins with The Lady in the Lake (1943). Written during the war, the story takes 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. Supplementing the volume, and providing a more personal glimpse of Chandler's personality, are a selection of 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 - and eleven letters that range wittily and often sardonically over the worlds of writing, publishing, and filmmaking.

Editorial Reviews

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These additions to the venerable series make official what mystery fans have always known: Raymond Chandler is one of the gods of American literature. Following the trail blazed by Dashiell Hammett, Chandler created Philip Marlowe and set the standard against which all private detective fiction is measured. This two-volume set covers the full canon of Chandler's work from early pulp stories to all the Marlowe novels, the screenplay for Double Indemnity, and essays on the mystery genre plus the usual Library of America goodies such as notes on the text and a chronology of the author's life. In terms of literary inventions, the Wild West cowboy and the hard-boiled P.I. are this country's only true native sons and are deserving of respect. One of them at least now has it.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781883011086
  • Publisher: Library of America, The
  • Publication date: 10/28/1995
  • Pages: 1088
  • Sales rank: 323,625
  • Series: Library of America Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.16 (w) x 8.16 (h) x 1.34 (d)

Meet the Author

Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler
Nobody but Chandler could have created a private eye hero as cool as Philip Marlowe, but writers have been trying ever since the author's precedent-setting '40s crime novels were published. Along with Dashiell Hammett, Chandler is revered as a noir father figure; his creation of a romantic L.A. full of dangerous women and crooked characters is so woven into modern consciousness that it's easy to forget that it was fictional.

Biography

Raymond Thornton Chandler (1888 - 1959) was the master practitioner of American hard-boiled crime fiction. Although he was born in Chicago, Chandler spent most of his boyhood and youth in England where he attended Dulwich College and later worked as a freelance journalist for The Westminster Gazette and The Spectator. During World War I, Chandler served in France with the First Division of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, transferring later to the Royal Flying Corps (R. A. F.). In 1919 he returned to the United States, settling in California, where he eventually became director of a number of independent oil companies. The Depression put an end to his career, and in 1933, at the age of forty-five, he turned to writing fiction, publishing his first stories in Black Mask. Chandler's detective stories often starred the brash but honorable Philip Marlowe (introduced in 1939 in his first novel, The Big Sleep) and were noted for their literate presentation and dead-on critical eye. Never a prolific writer, Chandler published only one collection of stories and seven novels in his lifetime. Some of Chandler's novels, like The Big Sleep, were made into classic movies which helped define the film noir style. In the last year of his life he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America. He died in La Jolla, California on March 26, 1959.

Author biography courtesy of Random House, Inc.

    1. Also Known As:
      Raymond Thornton Chandler
    1. Date of Birth:
      July 23, 1888
    2. Place of Birth:
      Chicago Illinois
    1. Date of Death:
      March 26, 1959
    2. Place of Death:
      La Jolla, California

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 1, 2001

    I agree with Joyce Carol Oates

    This book does need a companion essay explaining the seminal importance of Chandler's work. But I would not take this book away because it lacks this. I would instead recommend a companion read such as The Perfect Murder: A Study In Detection written by David Lehman to really get an idea of the moral and historical importance of Detective Novels in general, and, specifically, Chandler.

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  • Posted November 20, 2010

    Don't Miss Out on Raymond Chandler

    This is the second of two volumes of the definitive collection of Raymond Chandler's work, from Library of America. It contains the later four of his seven novels, the screenplay for "Double Indemnity" (written with Billy Wilder) and a number of letters and essays, including "The Simple Art of Murder," often quoted in discussions of crime fiction.
    If you've never read Chandler, the two-volume set is an excellent place to start. If it's been a while, then his work generously rewards another visit. And if you like any kind of crime fiction, even if only the most recent works, you owe it to yourself to spend some time with Chandler, because he and Dashiell Hammett essentially invented the genre which contemporary writers are still exploring.
    In much of his work, plot is less important than the compelling characterizations he comes up with, which are still evocative of our culture in general, and of Los Angeles in particular. And his style, mood and tone are able to create a world which, although exaggerated, contains a powerful truth which can hypnotize the reader into coming back for more, and then more.
    Since all I can do in this review is string together compliments, I urge you to discover or re-visit Chandler for yourself. His work is still strong and his view of human nature is right up to the moment.

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