On 16 March 2002, Etienne Borgers wrote:
: So, later I discovered that in fact, the Essay in that one
was the
: second version of it, that was originally published in 1950
in :
: 'Saturday Review of Literature' , April 1950… and
anthologized the
: same year by Houghton Mifflin Cy. The first one (that's the
one I was
: looking for, the historical one), shorter I think, and
*different* by
: many aspects, was issued in 1944, in 'The Atlantic
Monthly', December
: 44 and was issued later in Avon's anthology 'Finger Man and
other
: Stories'-1947.
Two versions of "The Simple Art of Murder"? I knew about the
December 1944 ATLANTIC MONTHLY one, but a revised 1950
version ... this is fiendish! I thought the one I had was the
original, but from what you say it's the 1950 revision. I can
understand the vast majority of the world doesn't care one
way or the other, but it's not hard to clearly identify the
bibliographic history of a story or essay in an
anthology.
A glorious day awaits where we can go to the bookstore or
library and get ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY EVERYTHING EVER
WRITTEN BY RAYMOND CHANDLER, or Paul Cain, or Norbert Davis,
or Hammett, or anyone else from the old days.
Bill
-- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/ : Caveat lector.
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