The Postman Always Rings Twice
James M. Cain's (1892-1977) controversial bestseller The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) is an erotic and violent story about a waitress and a drifter who kill ...
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Although he disliked the title, James M. Cain (1892-1977) is considered one of the preeminent "hard-boiled" crime writers of the 1930s and 1940s along with Dashiell Hammett, Horace McCoy, and Raymond ...
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"I, so far as I can sense the pattern of my mind, write of the wish that comes true, for some reason a terrifying concept, at least to my imagination. . . . I think my stories have some quality of the...
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Critical Essay by Franklin P. Adams
Mr. Cain has written the most engrossing, unlaydownable book that I have any memory of….
"The Postman Always Rings Twice" is so continuousl...
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Critical Essay by Edmund Wilson
Let us begin with Mr. Cain and his school. The Postman Always Rings Twice came out in 1934; and Mr. Cain's second novel, Serenade, in 1937. They were followed b...
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Critical Essay by Tom S. Reck
The literary reputation of James M. Cain is evidence of justice denied, a classic example of scholarly myopia toward the man whose novel The Postman Always Rings Twice (...
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
James Cain
James M(allahan) Cain
Critical Essay by Franklin P. Adams
