Raymond Chandler Speaking
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Raymond Chandler speaking | |
Author | Raymond Chandler; edited by Dorothy Gardiner and Kathrine Sorley Walker |
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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) |
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.
[edit] 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including literature, film, fellow writers and cats, the collection contains the following larger pieces (previously unpublished except as noted):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"
"The Poodle Springs Story" is a Philip Marlowe novel Chandler left unfinished at his death in 1959. It was completed in 1989 by Robert B. Parker as Poodle Springs.
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