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Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett | |
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About 112 pages (33,542 words) in 7 products |
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| Name: |
Dashiell Hammett | | Birth Date: |
May 27, 1894 | | Death Date: |
January 10, 1961 | | Place of Birth: |
Maryland, United States | | Place of Death: |
New York, New York, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
author, novelist |
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 Biography of (Samuel) Dashiell Hammett
13209 words, approx. 44 pages
 Dashiell Hammett is generally credited with bringing a new degree of authenticity as well as artistry to the crime fiction that flourished in the pulp magazines of the first decades of the twentieth century. Hammett created several of the most famous Ame... summary from source:
 Biography of Dashiell Hammett
6957 words, approx. 23.2 pages
In March 1928, just after Dashiell Hammett had submitted his first novel for publication, he wrote to his editor, Blanche Knopf, that unlike most moderately literate people, he took detective fiction seriously: "Some day somebody's going to make 'literat... summary from source:
 Biography of Dashiell Hammett
5928 words, approx. 19.8 pages
"I'm one of the few--if there are any more--people moderately literate who take the detective story seriously," Dashiell Hammett wrote to his publisher in 1928 at the beginning of his novel-writing career. "I don't mean that I necessarily take my own or...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Red Harvest Information
658 words, approx. 2 pages
 Red Harvest (1929) is a novel by Dashiell Hammett. The story is narrated by a nameless detective, The Continental Op, a frequent character in Hammett's fiction. Hammett based the story on his own experiences in Butte, Montana as a Pinkerton...
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 The Boston Globe Harvest Bathes Bog In Red Splendor
10/19/2003: 927 words, approx. 3 pages The annual cranberry harvest at the town-owned, 100-year-old bog is an event in Carlisle. Visitors stroll on the public paths that circle the bog and cross it on dikes. Tamma Duffy, the farmer's wife, presides over a sales table displaying plastic bags of... summary from source:
The Record (Bergen County, NJ) Harvesting A Red Sea Of Fall Berries
10/02/1994: 375 words, approx. 1 pages GABRIELA ENSER, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 10-02-1994 HARVESTING A RED SEA OF FALL BERRIES By GABRIELA ENSER, Staff Writer Date: 10-02-1994, Sunday Section: TRAVEL Edition: All Editions -- Sunday Column: CLOSE CALLS Did you know that Americans consume almost...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by John G. Cawelti
2,423 words, approx. 8 pages
In contrast to most hard-boiled detective writers who tend to employ the same detective and the same essential story over and over, Dashiell Hammett's work is extremely various. Each of his novels presents a different kind of problem and pattern of action. His first two full-length books, Red Harvest and The Dain Curse, feature an anonymous professional detective known as the Continental Op, who is also the central figure of most of Hammett's short stories. Though they share the same detective...
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Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett | |
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About 112 pages (33,542 words) in 7 products |
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