Raymond Chandler Speaking
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Raymond Chandler Speaking
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| Author(s) | Raymond Chandler; edited by Dorothy Gardiner and Kathrine Sorley Walker |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Literary criticism |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Publication date | 1962 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover, 1962, and paperback, 1997) |
| Pages | 275 (pb) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-520-20835-8 (pb) |
| OCLC Number | 35192346 |
| Dewey Decimal | 813/.52 B 20 |
| LC Classification | PS3505.H3224 Z47 1997 |
Raymond Chandler Speaking is a collection of letter excerpts, various notes, essays and an unfinished novel. It was compiled in 1962 by Dorothy Gardiner and Kathrine Sorley Walker.[1]
Contents
Apart from excerpts from letters by Chandler on a variety of subjects, including literature, film, fellow writers and cats, the collection contains the following larger pieces (previously unpublished except as noted):
- "Casual Notes on the Mystery Novel"
- "Notes on English and American Style"
- "Writers in Hollywood" (previously published in the Atlantic Monthly)
- "Ten Per Cent of Your Life" (Atlantic Monthly)
- "A Couple of Writers"
- "The Poodle Springs Story", a Philip Marlowe novel Chandler left unfinished at his death in 1959. It was completed in 1989 by Robert B. Parker as Poodle Springs.[2]
References
- ^ Raymond Chandler Speaking, ed. by Dorothy Gardiner and Kathrine Sorley Walker. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962, 1997² (ISBN 0-520-20835-8).
- ^ Blades, John (March 1, 1991). "Marlowe's mean streets; Tracking the man who filled Raymond Chandler's shoes". Chicago Tribune: p. 1. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/24780249.html?dids=24780249:24780249&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+01%2C+1991&author=John+Blades.&pub=Chicago+Tribune+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Marlowe's+mean+streets+Tracking+the+man+who+filled+Raymond+Chandler's+shoes&pqatl=google. Retrieved March 4, 2010.
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