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The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler

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Author Biography

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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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 New York Observer
Astutely Associative Tour Of an Overinflated Year
5/7/2006: 773 words, approx. 3 pages
Years 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....
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The New York Observer
Astutely Associative Tour Of an Overinflated Year
5/7/2006: 771 words, approx. 3 pages
Years 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...
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The New York Observer
Bu\'96uel Peeps Through Keyholes\'d1 A Cubist Vision of Deneuve
4/23/2006: 1,493 words, approx. 5 pages
Luis Buñuel’s Belle de Jour (1967), from a screenplay by Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière, based on the novel by Joseph Kessel (in French with English subtitles), is being shown at the Paris Theatre close to 40 years after it first played in New York. Kessel’s...
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The New York Observer
Bu\'96uel Peeps Through Keyholes- A Cubist Vision of Deneuve
4/23/2006: 1,493 words, approx. 5 pages
Luis Buñuel’s Belle de Jour (1967), from a screenplay by Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière, based on the novel by Joseph Kessel (in French with English subtitles), is being shown at the Paris Theatre close to 40 years after it first played in New York. Kessel’s...
 


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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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