Jim Doherty wrote: Be advised, if you're reading these four
stories from the assigned text, the first volume in the
Library of America's Chandler omnibus (STORIES & EARLY
NOVELS), you'll be reading the pulp versions of those
stories, rather than the revised SIMPLE ART OF MURDER
versions.
*********** Thanks for the heads up on the first reading
assignment. The class is only three or four weeks long, I
think, and there are a number of stories to read plus his
first two novels plus you mentioned several fair-sized essays
that you've written. Even though I've read both novels and
"Goldfish", I figure it will be hard for me to keep up with
the required reading.
Your comment on the variation in the stories is enlightening.
I didn't know they were different. I've got both the Library
of America volume and the book that contains the Chandler
essay and some stories. I'll read the Library of America
volume since it was the designated text for the class, plus
I'd rather read unrevised versions anyway.
I've got a book of essays on Chandler that notes how
Chandler's style progressed as he withdrew from the pulps and
started writing novels. Since, like many pulp masters, he
tweaked his earlier stories into later novels, the examples
of his shift in style were very specific.
miker
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