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    Frank MacShane was a literary biographer dedicated to applying rigorous critical standards to popular novelists like Raymond Chandler and John O'Hara, whose works were often overlooked by academic critics. He focused on writers with substantial followings who weren't automatically accepted into the highest literary ranks. Through his biographies, he sought to illuminate their literary style and keen observations of American life, thereby elevating their critical standing. MacShane also dedicated himself to teaching and championing nonfiction and translation.

    Raymond Chandler
    The serpent of paradise the story of an Indian pilgrimage
    Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler
    • 1988

      Raymond Chandler

      • 480 pages
      • 17 hours of reading
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      Chandler war Amerikaner, Absolvent einer englischen public school , Globetrotter, Gelegenheitsjournalist, Luftwaffenpilot, Buchhalter, Direktor im Ölbusiness, Arbeitsloser. 1933 begann er, noch unter dem Einfluss Dashiell Hammetts, für das Kriminalmagazin Black Mask zu schreiben. Mit fünfzig, 1938, veröffentlichte er seinen ersten Roman, Der große Schlaf , und schuf mit dem Privatdetektiv Philip Marlowe eine Kultfigur für Krimileser und Cineasten. Was folgte, waren Filmangebote, Hollywood und sehr viel Whisky. Der unglaubliche Lebenslauf des brillantesten aller amerikanischen Kriminalautoren, erzählt in einer fesselnden Biographie.

      Raymond Chandler
    • 1981

      Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler

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      'I don't know why the hell I write so many letters', Raymond Chandler once mused to a correspondent. 'I guess my mind is just to active for its own good'. This title presents some of the hundreds of letters Chandler wrote - many of them composed during long, insomniac nights. It also contains anecdotes of Hollywood.

      Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler
    • 1974