Raymond Chandler (1) (1888–1959)
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Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago, Illinois on July 23, 1888. Before becoming a professional writer in 1933, he worked as a reporter, an accountant, bookkeeper, and auditor. He wrote several novels featuring private detective Philip Marlowe including The Big Sleep, The High Window, The Lady in näytä lisää the Lake, The Little Sister, and The Long Goodbye. In addition to novels and short stories, he wrote screenplays. He won two academy awards, for Double Indemnity (1944) and The Blue Dahlia (1946). He died on March 26, 1959. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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Tekijän teokset
Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels: Pulp Stories / The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely / The High Window… (1995) 760 kappaletta
The Raymond Chandler Omnibus: The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely / The High Window / The Lady in the Lake (1971) 500 kappaletta
The Lady in the Lake, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, Playback (Everyman's Library) (2002) 201 kappaletta
The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely / The High Window / The Lady in the Lake / The Little Sister / The Long Goodbye /… (1989) 50 kappaletta
The big sleep/Farewell my lovely/The high window/The lady in the lake/The long goodbye/Playback (1977) 45 kappaletta
Trouble Is My Business And Other Stories (Folio Society) 23 kappaletta
Trouble is My Business and Other Stories 9 kappaletta
Smart-aleck Kill [short story] 6 kappaletta
Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 4: The Big Sleep: 1400 Headwords (Oxford Bookworms ELT) 4 kappaletta
Nunca soñaron con la posteridad: Relatos completos / They Never Dreamed of Posterity: The Short Stories (Spanish… (2018) 4 kappaletta
The Big Sleep / The Lady in the Lake 3 kappaletta
Novelas escogidas:: El sueño eterno; ¡Adiós para siempre, preciosidad!; La ventana alta; La hermanita; El largo… (1958) 3 kappaletta
Pickup On Noon Street [short story] 3 kappaletta
Raymond Chandler: The Collected Radio Dramas: Starring Toby Stephens as Philip Marlowe (BBC Audio) (2011) 3 kappaletta
i classici del giallo raccolta - vol.5 3 kappaletta
Der tiefe Schlaf, Kriminalroman. Chandler über Chandler, Briefe, Notizen, Essay. (1976) 3 kappaletta
Raymond Chandler: Erpresser schießen nicht- ausgewählte Kriminalstories 1933-1936 (1984) 2 kappaletta
Raymond Chandler Omnibus, The 2 kappaletta
Try The Girl 2 kappaletta
Třikrát Phil Marlowe 2 kappaletta
The Lady in the Lake: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection) (2003) 2 kappaletta
Todo Marlowe 2: La hermana pequeña - El largo adiós - Playback - El confidente - El lápiz 2 kappaletta
The Raymond Chandler MEGAPACK™: 14 Mystery Classics! 2 kappaletta
Dama u jezeru 2 kappaletta
A Janela Alta : O Cheiro Do Medo ( Obras Completas De Raymond Chandler Vol. 6 ) High Window and Red Wind in PORTUGUESE (1987) 2 kappaletta
The Quotable Philip Marlowe 2 kappaletta
Red Wind And Other Stories 2 kappaletta
L' uomo a cui piacevano i cani e altri tacconti 2 kappaletta
O bode expiatório: O gás da morte 1 kappale
Tiroteio Cerrado - A Montanha da Morte 1 kappale
A Irmazinha 1 kappale
The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, Volume 1 (Hollywood 360 - Classic Radio Collection)(Audio Theater) (2014) 1 kappale
Ο μεγάλος υπνος 1 kappale
Τα χρυσόψαρα 1 kappale
Adis, Mueca 1 kappale
Blackmailers Don't Shoot [novelette] 1 kappale
El largo adios, novela 1 kappale
Ἡ κυρία τῆς λίμνης 1 kappale
Ponovna igra 1 kappale
NOVELAS ESCOGIDAS 1 kappale
Little Sister (Cosmopolitan, April 1949) 1 kappale
I delitti di Hollywood 1 kappale
Smart Aleck [short story] 1 kappale
The Chandler Novels - Boxed Set 1 kappale
Five Novels: Finger Man; The big sleep; Farewell my loveley; High window; The lady in the lake 1 kappale
The Simple Art of Murder [essay] 1 kappale
Spanish Blood [short story] 1 kappale
Pearls Are A Nuisance [short story] 1 kappale
The Complete Works of Raymond Chandler 1 kappale
Fusillade 1 kappale
Les pépins c´est mes oignons 1 kappale
R. Chandler, Novelas Escogidas (Tomo I) 1 kappale
Raymond Chanlder Omnibus, The 1 kappale
La dernière balade 1 kappale
Associated Works
Great Detectives: A Century of the Best Mysteries from England and America (1984) — Avustaja — 358 kappaletta
The Mystery Hall of Fame: An Anthology of Classic Mystery and Suspense Stories (1984) — Avustaja — 32 kappaletta
The World's Greatest Detective Stories: Intriguing Mysteries from the Greatest Writers of Crime Fiction (1978) — Avustaja — 26 kappaletta
West Coast Fiction: Modern Writing from California, Oregon, and Washington (1979) — Avustaja — 7 kappaletta
Great Mystery Books, 10 Volumes (Journey into Fear, The 39 Steps, And Then There Were None, Maltese Falcon, The Nine… (1967) — Avustaja — 5 kappaletta
Best Crime Stories — Avustaja — 3 kappaletta
Classic Crime Stories: 13 Tales from Edgar Allan Poe to Lawrence Block (2007) — Avustaja — 2 kappaletta
The Haunted Boy, Sphinx, Lead Her Like a Pigeon, Red Wind, The Eighty-Yard Run (Selections from Reader's Digst… (1980) 1 kappale
Verdens beste kriminalhistorier — Avustaja — 1 kappale
Merkitty avainsanalla
Yleistieto
- Virallinen nimi
- Chandler, Raymond Thornton
- Syntymäaika
- 1888-07-23
- Kuolinaika
- 1959-03-26
- Hautapaikka
- Mount Hope Cemetery, San Diego, USA
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- Yhdysvallat
Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta (1907-1956) - Maa (karttaa varten)
- Yhdysvallat
- Syntymäpaikka
- Chicago, Illinois, Yhdysvallat
- Kuolinpaikka
- La Jolla, Kalifornia, Yhdysvallat
- Kuolinsyy
- pneumonial peripheral vascular shock and prerenal uremia
- Asuinpaikat
- Plattsmouth, Nebraska, Yhdysvallat
Lontoo, Englanti
Los Angeles, Kalifornia, Yhdysvallat
La Jolla, Kalifornia, Yhdysvallat - Koulutus
- Dulwich College, London
- Ammatit
- kirjailija
elokuvakäsikirjoittaja
virkamies
toimittaja
kirjanpitäjä
tilintarkastaja - Suhteet
- Chandler, Maurice Benjamin (father)
Thornton, Dart Florence (mother)
Hulburt, Pearl Cecily (wife) - Organisaatiot
- Dabney Oil Syndicate
Canadian Expeditionary Force (WWI)
The Westminster Gazette
Daily Express - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Screenplay (1946)
the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Novel (1954) - Agentti
- Helga Greene
Jäseniä
Keskustelut
February 2014: Raymond Chandler, Monthly Author Reads (toukokuu 2014)
Hard boiled detective with $5000, Name that Book (helmikuu 2012)
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- Jäseniä
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- Arvio (tähdet)
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- Kirja-arvosteluja
- 900
- ISBN:t
- 1,333
- Kielet
- 33
- Kuinka monen suosikki
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It's pulp fiction, a hard-boiled detective/noir that set the standard for a genre. What's notable is that in this case, the movie was better than the book. The dialogue is chock full of slang from the 30's, not all of which has aged well. Some lines were so ridiculous that I laughed out loud:
"My God, you big dark handsome brute! I ought to throw a Buik at you!"
As characters go, neither of the Sternwood daughters "has any more moral sense than a cat." They aren't fully developed and their misadventures are never fully explained,and the book leaves some of the murders unsolved, unfortunately.… (lisätietoja)