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Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe: An American Character

Philip Marlowe, as presented in Raymond Chandler’s novels, especially The Big Sleep, The Long Goodbye, and Farewell, My Lovely, presents a distinctly American character.Marlow has a personal moral code. It does not seem to be based on anything—authority, scripture, law—besides … Continue reading

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