Miker,
Re your comments below:
> 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.
There wasn't that much revision. I read both versions of the
four stories in preparing the class. All Chandler did was
change the names from "Carmady" or
"John Dalmas" to "Philip Marlowe" (or, in the case of
"Finger Man," in which the character hadn't yet been named,
inserting the name "Philip Marlowe"), changing Marlowe's gun
from a .32 in the pulp version of
"Finger Man" to a .38, and changing a character in
"Red Wind" named "Choate" to "Coates" (or was it
"Coates to "Choate?").
Chandler revised much more heavily when he combined and
expanded his short stories to novel-length.
BTW, we're reading the first THREE novels, not just the first
two.
JIM DOHERTY
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