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Carregando... The Giant Collection of the Continental Opde Dashiell Hammett
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Overall, I enjoyed the stories, but there was a bit of a feeling of sameness about them with a couple of exceptions. Same locale on most (San Francisco), with sojourns to Mexico, a Wild West locale and I think Moravia (?) with those latter two straining credulity. And the same cutout characters over and over. The main problem is that there are often so many characters with so little differentiation that it is difficult to keep track. And there is very little character development of the Continental Op himself so one is reading purely for the stories and makes no emotional connection on any level. If that's all you want, these stories will fit the bill. ( ) sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Essential tales from the files of San Francisco's hard-bitten, prototypical PI--penned by the undisputed "master of the detective novel" (The Boston Globe). Before Dashiell Hammett introduced such iconic sleuths as Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon or Nick and Nora Charles in The Thin Man, he put to work the most influential detective ever to scour America's hard-boiled literary landscape. An operative of San Francisco's Continental Detective Agency, the Continental Op was a world-weary, pragmatic, and inelegant company man--and though always nameless, he has remained as distinctive as a fingerprint. Informed by Hammett's own work with the Pinkertons, the twenty-three stories collected here--originally published between 1923 and 1930--introduced a bracing, jaded, dry-witted realism to the genre. Written with "the precision of a diamond cutter," they are seminal masterworks in the legacy of a genuine original (Newsweek). Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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