Eternal Sleep. Farewell, Beauty. High Window
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Eternal Sleep. Farewell, Beauty. High Window
14.99 €
11.99 €
Raymond Chandler's books about Philip Marlowe not only laid the foundations of the hard-boiled detective genre, but also became modern classics in the broadest sense. This edition contains the first three novels about the famous private detective - "The Sleepover", "Farewell, Beautiful" and "The High Window". Marlowe is a new type of detective hero: he is a romantic, a sentimental knight, always preserving his individuality and adhering to a code of honor. He does not look for adventure - they themselves find him, and the plot, replete with signature dizzying intricacies, usually begins quite innocently. So in "The Sleepover", retired General Sternwood instructs Marlowe to deal with an adventurer who is blackmailing his youngest daughter; in the first scene of the novel "Farewell, Beautiful", the detective simply reminds one thug that he has to pay for his drinks; and in The High Window, Marlowe is tasked by widow Mrs. Murdoch with finding the Brasher Doubloon, a rare gold coin missing from her late husband's collection...
Chandler's stories have inspired several iconic film noirs, and for many, Marlowe is inextricably linked with Humphrey Bogart, who played the role several times, beginning with Howard Hawks's 1946 adaptation of The Last Sleep, co-written by William Faulkner. But Bogart was not the first: even before his The Last Sleep, two adaptations of Farewell, My Beautiful had been made - with George Sanders in 1942 and with Dick Powell in 1944. The High Window was filmed twice: in 1942 as A Time to Kill and in 1947 as Brasher's Doubloon (Blood Money in Russian translation), with Western star George Montgomery playing Marlowe in the latter film.
Chandler's stories have inspired several iconic film noirs, and for many, Marlowe is inextricably linked with Humphrey Bogart, who played the role several times, beginning with Howard Hawks's 1946 adaptation of The Last Sleep, co-written by William Faulkner. But Bogart was not the first: even before his The Last Sleep, two adaptations of Farewell, My Beautiful had been made - with George Sanders in 1942 and with Dick Powell in 1944. The High Window was filmed twice: in 1942 as A Time to Kill and in 1947 as Brasher's Doubloon (Blood Money in Russian translation), with Western star George Montgomery playing Marlowe in the latter film.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Foreign Literature. Classic Detective