The Big Sleep and Other Novels

作者 Raymond Chandler著
出版社 Penguin Books
出版时间 2000年2月
ISBN 9780141182612
定价 154.10

内容简介

RaymondChandlerwasAmerica'spreeminentwriterofdetectivefiction,andthisPenguinModernClassicseditionofTheBigSleepandOtherNovelscollectsthreeofthebestnovelstofeaturehishard-drinking,philosophisingPI,PhilipMarlowe.RaymondChandlercreatedthefasttalking,troubleseekingCalifornianprivateeyePhilipMarloweforhisfirstgreatnovelTheBigSleepin1939.Oftenimitatedbutneverbettered,itisinMarlowe'slongshadowthateveryfictionaldetectivemuststand-andundertheinfluenceofRaymondChandler'saddictiveprosethateverycrimeauthormustwrite.Marlowe'sentanglementwiththeSternwoodfamily-andanattendantcastofcolourfulunderworldfigures-isthebackgroundtoastoryreflectingallthetarnishedglitterofthegreatAmericanDream.Thehard-boileddetective'siconicimageburnsjustasbrightlyinFarewellMyLovely,onthetrailofamissingnightclubcrooner.AndtheinimitableMarloweisabletoprovethattroublereallyishisbusinessinRaymondChandler'sbrilliantepitaph,TheLongGoodbye.

作者简介

RaymondChandlerwasborninChicagoin1888andmovedtoEnglandwithhisfamilywhenhewastwelve.HeattendedDulwichCollege,AlmaMatertosomeofthetwentiethcentury'smostrenownedwriters.ReturningtoAmericain1912,hesettledinCalifornia,workedinanumberofjobs,andlatermarried.ItwasduringtheDepressionerathatheseriouslyturnedhishandtowritingandhisfirstpublishedstoryappearedinthepulpmagazineBlackMaskin1933,followedsixyearslaterbyhisfirstnovel.TheBigSleepintroducedtheworldtoPhilipMarlowe,theoftenimitatedbutnever-betteredhard-boiledprivateinvestigator.ItisinMarlowe'slongshadowthateveryfictionaldetectivemuststand-andundertheinfluenceofRaymondChandler'saddictiveprosethateverycrimeauthormustwrite.

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