The Big Sleep and Other Novels

图书标准信息

• 作者 Raymond Chandler 著
• 出版社 Penguin Books
• 出版时间 2000-02
• ISBN 9780141182612
• 定价 154.10元
• 装帧 平装
• 开本 其他
• 纸张 其他
• 页数 672页
• 正文语种 英语
• 丛书 Penguin Modern Classics

【内容简介】

RaymondChandlerwasAmerica'spreeminentwriterofdetectivefiction,andthisPenguinModernClassicseditionofTheBigSleepandOtherNovelscollectsthreeofthebestnovelstofeaturehishard-drinking,philosophisingPI,PhilipMarlowe.

RaymondChandlercreatedthefasttalking,troubleseekingCalifornianprivateeyePhilipMarloweforhisfirstgreatnovelTheBigSleepin1939.Oftenimitatedbutneverbettered,itisinMarlowe'slongshadowthateveryfictionaldetectivemuststand-andundertheinfluenceofRaymondChandler'saddictiveprosethateverycrimeauthormustwrite.Marlowe'sentanglementwiththeSternwoodfamily-andanattendantcastofcolourfulunderworldfigures-isthebackgroundtoastoryreflectingallthetarnishedglitterofthegreatAmericanDream.Thehard-boileddetective'siconicimageburnsjustasbrightlyinFarewellMyLovely,onthetrailofamissingnightclubcrooner.AndtheinimitableMarloweisabletoprovethattroublereallyishisbusinessinRaymondChandler'sbrilliantepitaph,TheLongGoodbye.

【作者简介】

RaymondChandlerwasborninChicagoin1888andmovedtoEnglandwithhisfamilywhenhewastwelve.HeattendedDulwichCollege,AlmaMatertosomeofthetwentiethcentury'smostrenownedwriters.ReturningtoAmericain1912,hesettledinCalifornia,workedinanumberofjobs,andlatermarried.ItwasduringtheDepressionerathatheseriouslyturnedhishandtowritingandhisfirstpublishedstoryappearedinthepulpmagazineBlackMaskin1933,followedsixyearslaterbyhisfirstnovel.TheBigSleepintroducedtheworldtoPhilipMarlowe,theoftenimitatedbutnever-betteredhard-boiledprivateinvestigator.ItisinMarlowe'slongshadowthateveryfictionaldetectivemuststand-andundertheinfluenceofRaymondChandler'saddictiveprosethateverycrimeauthormustwrite.