Raymond Chandler

Standard Name: Chandler, Raymond

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elaine Feinstein
Subjects of poems here include Dickens , Thomas and Jane Carlyle, Siegfried Sassoon , Anna Akhmatova , Bella Akhmadulina , Billie Holliday , and Raymond Chandler . In Betrayal, a reply to Shakespeare
Literary responses Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Edmund Wilson called the Holmes stories literature on a humble but not ignoble level . . . by virtue of imagination and style.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Raymond Chandler thought Holmes was mostly an attitude and a few dozen...
Intertextuality and Influence Jo Shapcott
Windows, marked with times running from 10 a.m. to midnight, renders a sequence called Les Fenêtres, which Rilke's lover Merline, or Balandine Klossowska , published in the year after his death, a...
Education Fay Weldon
FW learned to read at three: I remember . . . the way the letters suddenly made sense.
Weldon, Fay. Auto da Fay. Flamingo.
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After her grandmother joined the family in 1942 she was able to borrow adult books from...

Timeline

6 February 1939: Raymond Chandler, aged fifty-one, published...

Writing climate item

6 February 1939

Raymond Chandler , aged fifty-one, published The Big Sleep, the first and one of the best-known of his seven Philip Marlowe novels, famous as hard-boiled detectivefiction.

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