Raymond Chandler Speaking
- Raymond Chandler Speaking
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name = Raymond Chandler speaking
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author = Raymond Chandler; edited by Dorothy Gardiner and Kathrine Sorley Walker
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Literary criticism
publisher = University of California Press
release_date = 1962
media_type = Print (hardcover, 1962, and paperback, 1997)
pages = 275 (pb)
isbn = ISBN 0-520-20835-8 (pb)
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"Raymond Chandler Speaking" is a collection of letter excerpts, various notes, essays and an unfinished novel. It was compiled in 1962 by Dorothy Gardiner and Kathrine Sorley Walker.
Contents
Apart from excerpts from letters by Chandler on a variety of subjects, including literature, film, fellow writers and cats, the collection contains the following larger pieces (previously unpublished except as noted):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"
"The Poodle Springs Story" is a Philip Marlowe novel Chandler left unfinished at his death in 1959. It was completed in 1989 by Robert B. Parker as "Poodle Springs".
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