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Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler

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Name: Raymond Chandler
Birth Date: July 23, 1888
Death Date: March 26, 1959
Place of Death: La Jolla, California
Nationality: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of Raymond (Thornton) Chandler
14571 words, approx. 48.6 pages
Upon the publication of his first novel, The Big Sleep (1939), Raymond Chandler was hailed as one of the leading practitioners of the American hard-boiled detective novel, but he received virtually no recognition as a writer of serious literature. During...
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Biography of Raymond Chandler
6003 words, approx. 20 pages
In the late 1940s well-known British author and critic Evelyn Waugh hailed Raymond Chandler as America's "greatest living writer." Poet W. H. Auden stated that Chandler's mystery novels "should be read and judged, not as escape literature, but as works o...


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Farewell, My Lovely Information
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Farewell, My Lovely is a 1940 novel by Raymond Chandler, the second novel he wrote featuring Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe. Three movie adaptations have been made, see...


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The Boston Globe
Farewell, my lovelies
09/30/2007: 865 words, approx. 3 pages
On Crime Instead of the mayhem and pyrotechnics that have become de rigueur for the opening chapter of today's thrillers, Steve Hamilton's "Night Work" delivers a nuanced portrait of Joe Trumbull as he tapes his hands and gazes out the window at a...
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Evening Standard - London
Farewell my lovely
04/10/2001: 1,415 words, approx. 5 pages
Fans the world over will shed a tear tomorrow when comic-strip heroine Modesty Blaise plays out her last adventure in the pages of the Evening Standard. On the eve of his 81st birthday, her remarkable creator tells Nick Curtis why he decided to call...
 


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Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler

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