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The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler | |
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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... summary from source:
 Biography of Raymond Chandler
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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...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 The Long Goodbye Information
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 The Long Goodbye (ISBN 0-394-75768-8) is a 1953 novel by Raymond Chandler, centered on his famous detective Philip Marlowe. While some consider it not on the level of The Big Sleep or Farewell, My Lovely, others rank it as the best of his work.[1] It is...
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 The Boston Globe The Long Goodbye
01/08/1995: 729 words, approx. 2 pages The college applications were mailed over the holidays to a dozen ZIP codes -- 08544, 27706, 70118, 94720, and others. Next September, the older son will be somewhere else. Maybe he'll be 3,000 miles away, maybe nearby, but he won't be in the back... summary from source:
The Boston Globe The long goodbye
01/19/1997: 336 words, approx. 1 pages Last week, scientists at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Toronto gave the universe another 100 trillion pretty good years. Too bad the report didn't stop there. University of Michigan researchers Fred Adams and Gregory Laughlin looked ahead tens of thousands of trillions... summary from source:
 greatreporter.com Altman, Robert
12/31/2006: 339 words, approx. 1 pagesAmerican filmmaker (b. Feb. 20, 1925, Kansas City, Mo. —d. Nov. 20, 2006, Los Angeles, Calif. ), was an unconventional and independent director whose works emphasized character and atmosphere over plot in exploring themes of innocence, corruption, and survival. Perhaps his best-known film was his... summary from source:
The New York Observer Astutely Associative Tour Of an Overinflated Year
5/7/2006: 773 words, approx. 3 pagesYears have vintages too: It doesn’t take a sommelier to recommend a 1776, an 1815, a 1989. Conversely, who’d want to lay in a year like, let us say, 1973? It’s the nadir of that supposed nadir of decades, the 1970’s. Watergate roiled the nation....
Literary Criticism
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 J. O. Tate
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In the following essay. Tate studies the symbolic and autobiographical role of alcohol in Raymond Chandler's novel The Long Goodbye.
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