An edition of Novels (Red Harvest / The Dain Curse / The Maltese Falcon / The Glass Key / The Thin Man) (1965)

Dashiell Hammett

five complete novels.

Avenel 1980 ed.

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An edition of Novels (Red Harvest / The Dain Curse / The Maltese Falcon / The Glass Key / The Thin Man) (1965)

Dashiell Hammett

five complete novels.

Avenel 1980 ed.

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Each novel is distinct in mood and structure. Red Harvest (1929) epitomizes the violence and momentum of his Black Mask stories about the anonymous detective the Continental Op, in a raucous and nightmarish evocation of political corruption and gang warfare in a western mining town. In The Dain Curse (1929) the Op returns in a more melodramatic tale involving jewel theft, drugs, and a religious cult. With The Maltese Falcon (1930) and its protagonist Sam Spade, Hammett achieved his most enduring popular success, a tightly constructed quest story shot through with a sense of disillusionment and the arbitrariness of personal destiny. The Glass Key (1931) is a further exploration of city politics at their most scurrilous. His last novel was The Thin Man (1934), a ruefully comic tale paying homage to the traditional mystery form and featuring Nick and Nora Charles, the sophisticated inebriates who would enjoy a long afterlife in the movies.

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Avenel Books, distributed by Crown Publishers
Language
English
Pages
726

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American Detective and mystery stories Private investigators Translations into Russian Detective and mystery stories, American Open Library Staff Picks Conto Literatura norte-americana United States Fiction Hammett, dashiell, 1894-1961 Nora Charles (Fictitious character) Nick Charles (Fictitious character) Sam Spade (Fictitious character) Continental Op (Fictitious character) American fiction (fictional works by one author)

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Complete novels: Red harvest ; The Dain curse ; The Maltese falcon ; The glass key ; The thin man
1999, Literary Classics of the United States, Distributed by Penguin Books, Literary Classics of the United States Inc.
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Complete novels
1999, Library of America
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Dashiell Hammett: Five Complete Novels Red Harvest, Dain Curse, Maltese Falcon. Glass Key and Thin Man
July 30, 1991, Random House/Knopf
Hardcover in English - Book club edition
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Dashiell Hammett: five complete novels.
1980, Avenel Books, distributed by Crown Publishers
in English - Avenel 1980 ed.

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Table of Contents

Red harvest.
The Dain curse.
The Maltese falcon.
The glass key.
The thin man.

Edition Notes

Reprint of the ed. published by Knopf, New York, under title: The novels of Dashiell Hammett.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.52
Library of Congress
PS3515.A4347 A6 1980

The Physical Object

Pagination
726 p. ;
Number of pages
726

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL4115185M
Internet Archive
dashiellhammettf00hamm
ISBN 10
0517338416, 0517336286
LCCN
80039931
OCLC/WorldCat
7007261
LibraryThing
83011
Goodreads
2297641
5162856

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Work ID
OL47279W

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