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Raymond Chandler Speaking

Book by Raymond Chandler


Book by Raymond Chandler

FieldValue
nameRaymond Chandler speaking
imageFile:RaymondChandlerSpeaking.jpg
captionFirst edition (UK)
authorRaymond Chandler; edited by Dorothy Gardiner and Kathrine Sorley Walker
countryUnited States
languageEnglish
genreLiterary criticism
publisherHamish Hamilton (UK)
Houghton Mifflin (US)
release_date1962
media_typePrint
pages272
dewey813/.52 B 20
congressPS3505.H3224 Z47 1997
oclc35192346

Houghton Mifflin (US)

Raymond Chandler Speaking is a collection of excerpts from letters, notes, essays and an unfinished novel by the writer Raymond Chandler, compiled by Dorothy Gardiner and Kathrine Sorley Walker in 1962. The origins of the collection were contentious: after Chandler's death, his literary agent and lover, Helga Greene, and his private secretary, Jean Fracasse, entered into a legal battle over his estate, in which Greene prevailed.

Contents

The collection includes excerpts from letters by Chandler on various subjects, including literature, film, fellow writers and cats, and the following longer pieces (previously unpublished except as noted):

  • "Casual Notes on the Mystery Novel"
  • "Notes on English and American Style"
  • "Writers in Hollywood" (previously published in the Atlantic Monthly)
  • "Ten Per Cent of Your Life" (Atlantic Monthly)
  • "A Couple of Writers"
  • "The Poodle Springs Story", a Philip Marlowe novel unfinished at the time of Chandler's death, in 1959. It was completed in 1989 by Robert B. Parker as Poodle Springs.

References

References

  1. (April 23, 2015). "Kathrine Sorley Walker, dance critic – obituary". Daily Telegraph.
  2. [[Dorothy Gardiner (editor). Gardiner, Dorothy]]; [[Kathrine Sorley Walker. Walker, Kathrine Sorley]] (eds.) (1962, 1997²). ''Raymond Chandler Speaking''. Berkeley: University of California Press. {{ISBN. 0-520-20835-8.
  3. Blades, John. (March 1, 1991). "Marlowe's Mean Streets: Tracking the Man Who Filled Raymond Chandler's Shoes". Chicago Tribune.
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