Red Wind: A Collection of Short Stories

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Author: Chandler, Raymond Thornton (1888-1959) Year: 1946 Publisher: Cleveland and New York Place: World Publishing Co Description: 253 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original black cloth with red lettering to spine and front cover. (Firsts April 2000 page 52) First edition in book form. These short stories first appeared in the following periodicals Red Wind , January 1938 in dime Detective ; Blackmailers Don't Shoot 1933 in the Black Mask ; I'll Be Waiting 1939 in the Saturday Evening Post ; Goldfish 1936 in Black Mask ; Guns at Cyrano's 1936 in Black Mask . Critics and writers, ranging from W. H. Auden to Evelyn Waugh to Ian Fleming, greatly admired the finely wrought prose of Raymond Chandler . Although his swift-moving, hardboiled style was inspired mostly by Dashiell Hammett, his sharp and lyrical similes are original: "The muzzle of the Luger looked like the mouth of the Second Street tunnel"; "The minutes went by on tiptoe, with their fingers to their lips", defining private eye fiction genre , and leading to the coining of the adjective 'Chandleresque', which is subject and object of parody and pastiche. Yet, Philip Marlowe is not a stereotypical tough guy, but a complex, sometimes sentimental man of few friends, who attended university, speaks some Spanish and, at times , admires Mexicans, is a student of classical chess games and classical music. He will refuse a prospective client's money if he is ethically unsatisfied by the job. The high critical regar

• Binding: Hardcover

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