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Dashiell Hammett

Dashiell Hammett: Complete Novels (LOA #110)

Red Harvest / The Dain Curse / The Maltese Falcon / The Glass Key / The Thin Man

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In a few years of extraordinary creative energy, Dashiell Hammett invented the modern American crime novel. In the words of Raymond Chandler, Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse. . . . He put these people down on paper as they were, and he made them talk and think in the language they customarily used for these purposes. Beginning as a prolific contributor to the pulp magazines of the 1920s, he succeeded during his brief career in making his kind of crime fiction a crucial part of the fabric of American writing: a genre that did not evade reality but rather embodied the gritt… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Marcus, Steven
  • ISBN: 978-1-883011-67-3
  • EAN: 9781883011673
  • Produktnummer: 9124768
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
  • Seitenangabe: 967 S.

Über den Autor


Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961), a master of the hard-bolied detective fiction, was the author of The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, and the Continental Op stories, among other celebrated works.Steven Marcus, volume editor, is George Delacorte Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus, at Columbia University. A distinguished cultural historian and literary critic, he is the author of many books, including The Other Victorians and Engels, Manchester, and the Working Class. He is also the editor of the historic collection of Hammett stories, The Continental Op.

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