Dashiell Hammett: The Library of America Edition - (Two-volume boxed set) (Hardcover)


Here, for the first time in a deluxe collector's box, is the most comprehensive edition of the hard-boiled crime fiction of Dashiell Hammett ever published. "Complete Novels," the first of two volumes gathered here, presents the five groundbreaking books whose gritty, lean prose won admiration from such contemporaries as Stein, Hemingway, and Faulkner: "Red Harvest," "The Dain Curse," "The Maltese Falcon," "The Glass Key, ," and "The Thin Man."
In the stories he wrote for "Black Mask" and other pulp magazines in the 1920s and 1930s, Hammett used the vernacular adventure tale to register the jarring textures and revved-up cadences of modern America. "Crime Stories & Other Writings" presents 24 of these classic tales, along with revealing essays and an early, unfinished version of his novel "The Thin Man." The texts, reprinted here for the first time, are those that appeared originally in the pulps, without the revisions introduced by later editors.
"An invaluable collection." --"Kirkus Reviews"

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Here, for the first time in a deluxe collector's box, is the most comprehensive edition of the hard-boiled crime fiction of Dashiell Hammett ever published. "Complete Novels," the first of two volumes gathered here, presents the five groundbreaking books whose gritty, lean prose won admiration from such contemporaries as Stein, Hemingway, and Faulkner: "Red Harvest," "The Dain Curse," "The Maltese Falcon," "The Glass Key, ," and "The Thin Man."
In the stories he wrote for "Black Mask" and other pulp magazines in the 1920s and 1930s, Hammett used the vernacular adventure tale to register the jarring textures and revved-up cadences of modern America. "Crime Stories & Other Writings" presents 24 of these classic tales, along with revealing essays and an early, unfinished version of his novel "The Thin Man." The texts, reprinted here for the first time, are those that appeared originally in the pulps, without the revisions introduced by later editors.
"An invaluable collection." --"Kirkus Reviews"

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Imprint

The Library of America

Country of origin

United States

Release date

May 2013

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First published

May 2013

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Dimensions

216 x 136 x 71mm (L x W x H)

Format

Hardcover

Pages

1901

ISBN-13

978-1-59853-218-0

Barcode

9781598532180

Categories

LSN

1-59853-218-9



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