![]() ![]() It was dramatized for television in 1954 for the anthology series Climax!, with Dick Powell playing Marlowe, as he had a decade earlier in the film Murder, My Sweet. “Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious" (Robert B. ![]() The Long Goodbye was praised in an anthology of American crime stories as "arguably the first book since Hammett's The Glass Key, published more than twenty years earlier, to qualify as a serious and significant mainstream novel that just happened to possess elements of mystery" (Pronzini p.169). ![]() ![]() Two characters in the novel are based on Chandler himself both of them highlight Chandler's awareness of his own flaws-his alcoholism and his doubts about the value of his writing. Her illness and death had a profound effect on him, driving him into fits of melancholy and leading him to talk of and even attempt suicide. The Long Goodbye is Chandler's most personal novel. First edition of Raymond Chandler’s sixth novel featuring the private investigator Philip Marlowe. ![]()
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