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Collected Storiesby Raymond Chandler
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:The Everymans Library 100 Essentials brings together a selection of 100 of the bestselling titles from the most extensive and distinguished collectible library of the worlds greatest works. An enduring hardcover library of classic and contemporary works from literature to history to philosophy, Everymans Library editions feature original introductions, up-to-date bibliographies, and complete chronologies of the authors lives and works.
This set includes one each of the following titles: The Aeneid by Virgil The Analects by Confucius Animal Farm by George Orwell Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy The Arabian Nights by Husain Haddawy The Audubon Reader by John James Audubon Beloved by Toni Morrison The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window by Raymond Chandler Black Mischief, Scoop, The Loved One, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold by Evelyn Waugh The Bookshop, The Gate of Angels, The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Carried Away by Alice Munro The Castle by Franz Kafka Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Collected Stories by Raymond Chandler Collected Stories by Roald Dahl Collected Stories by Franz Kafka Collected Stories by W. Somerset Maugham The Complete Henry Bech by John Updike The Complete Short Novels by Anton Chekhov The Complete Short Stories by Evelyn Waugh Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Dubliners by James Joyce Essays by George Orwell The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez Great Expectations by Charles Dickens The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad The Histories by Herodotus A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipul The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende The Human Factor by Graham Greene The Iliad by Homer Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann The Lady in the Lake, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, Playback by Raymond Chandler Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Midnights Children by Salman Rushdie The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot Moby-Dick by Herman Melville Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett Mr. Sampath-The Printer of Malgudi, The Financial Expert, Waiting for the Mahatma by R. K. Narayan Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf My Ántonia by Willa Cather The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell The Odyssey by Homer Offshore, Human Voices, The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov A Passage to India by E. M. Forster The Periodic Table by Primo Levi The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays by Albert Camus Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selected Stories by James M. Cain Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Girls of Slender Means, The Drivers Seat, The Only Problem by Muriel Spark The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli Rabbit Angstrom by John Updike The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth The Republic by Plato Rights of Man and Common Sense by Thomas Paine The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov The Stranger by Albert Camus Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher by R. K. Narayan Tao Te Ching by Lao-Tzu The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripleys Game by Patricia Highsmith The Trial by Franz Kafka The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith The Woman Warrior and China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Ulysses by James Joyce Walden by Henry David Thoreau We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live by Joan Didion Zenos Conscience by Italo Svevo Everymans Library continues to maintain its original commitment to publishing the most significant world literature in editions that reflect a tradition of fine bookmaking. Everymans Library pursues the highest standards, utilizing modern prepress, printing, and binding technologies to produce classically designed books printed on acid-free natural-cream-colored text paper and including Smyth-sewn, signatures, full-cloth cases with two-color case stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, and European-style half-round spines. Synopsis:From Chinua Achebe to Toni Morrison and Raymond Chandler to Joan Didion, the Everymans Library Contemporary Classics set is a collection of the finest literature of our time by award-winning and bestselling writers with new introductions and author chronologies.
This set includes one each of the following titles: Animal Farm by George Orwell Beloved by Toni Morrison The Best of Wodehouse by P. G. Wodehouse The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window by Raymond Chandler Black Mischief, Scoop, The Loved One, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold by Evelyn Waugh The Bookshop, The Gate of Angels, The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz Carried Away by Alice Munro The Castle by Franz Kafka Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Collected Stories by Franz Kafka Collected Stories by Raymond Chandler Collected Stories by Roald Dahl Collected Stories by W. Somerset Maugham The Collected Works by Kahlil Gibran The Complete Henry Bech by John Updike The Complete Short Stories by Evelyn Waugh The Dain Curse, The Glass Key, and Selected Stories by Dashiell Hammett Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak Dubliners by James Joyce Essays by George Orwell Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende The Human Factor by Graham Greene If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann The Lady in the Lake, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, Playback by Raymond Chandler Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov Midnights Children by Salman Rushdie Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett Mr. Sampath--The Printer of Malgudi, The Financial Expert, Waiting for the Mahatma by R. K. Narayan Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf My Ántonia by Willa Cather The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Offshore, Human Voices, The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov A Passage to India by E. M. Forster The Periodic Table by Primo Levi The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays by Albert Camus Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selected Stories by James M. Cain The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Girls of Slender Means, The Drivers Seat, The Only Problem by Muriel Spark Rabbit Angstrom by John Updike The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov The Stranger by Albert Camus Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher by R. K. Narayan The Sword of Honour Trilogy by Evelyn Waugh The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripleys Game by Patricia Highsmith Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald Three Novels of Ancient Egypt: Khufus Wisdom, Rhadopis of Nubia, Thebes at War by Naguib Mahfouz To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf The Trial by Franz Kafka Ulysses by James Joyce Waugh Abroad: Collected Travel Writing by Evelyn Waugh We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live by Joan Didion The Woman Warrior, China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston Zenos Conscience by Italo Svevo Everymans Library continues to maintain its original commitment to publishing the most significant world literature in editions that reflect a tradition of fine bookmaking. Everymans Library pursues the highest standards, utilizing modern prepress, printing, and binding technologies to produce classically designed books printed on acid-free natural-cream-colored text paper and including Smyth-sewn, signatures, full-cloth cases with two-color case stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, and European-style half-round spines. Synopsis:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
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 twenty-five 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 About the AuthorRaymond 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. Chandlers 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 Chandlers 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.
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