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2 days ago · THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP MARLOWE.....Was a radio series featuring Raymond Chandler's private eye, Philip Marlowe. It first aired June 17, 1947 on NBC radio u...
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May 20, 2024 · The Big Sleep, classic hardboiled crime novel by Raymond Chandler, published in 1939. It was the first of seven novels to feature the famed detective Philip Marlowe. The story was filmed twice, in 1946 and 1978.
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May 7, 2024 · In 1950 and 1951 Chandler worked on a new book, but the old Philip Marlowe bored him. When his own agents rejected the manuscript, Chandler broke his relationship with them, intent on adding depth to his hero. The Long Goodbye (1953) was a landmark. It introduced a flawed Marlowe, lonely and weakened by time, and brought social commentary to ...
May 11, 2024 · The novel was published in 1940 and was the second novel Chandler wrote which featured the Los Angeles private eye, Philip Marlowe.
4 days ago · Mitchum's stint as an aging Philip Marlowe in the Raymond Chandler adaptation Farewell, My Lovely (1975) (a remake of 1944's Murder, My Sweet) was sufficiently well received by audiences and critics for him to reprise the role in 1978's The Big Sleep, a remake of the 1946 film of the same title.
May 22, 2024 · Table of Contents. The Big Sleep is Raymond Chandler’s first novel. The Big Sleep, published in 1939, marked Raymond Chandler’s debut as a novelist. It introduced readers to the iconic detective Philip Marlowe, a character who would go on to feature in many of Chandler’s subsequent works.
4 days ago · Chandler speaks directly to us in a collection from two of his biographers, Frank MacShane and Tom Hiney: The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959 (2000). Not only does it have some of the same items you get in the two volume Library of America Chandler series but also some of his early literary criticism, poetry ...
