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Vintage Hammett Paperback – January 25, 2005

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Sam Spade, Nick and Nora Charles, The Continental Op. In his novels and stories, Dashiell Hammett created some of the most memorable characters--detectives, dames, and assorted miscreants--in twentieth-century fiction. It is nearly impossible to imagine modern American literature without Hammett.

Vintage Hammettfeaturesepisodes from Red Harvest, The Maltese Falcon, The Dain Curse, and The Thin Man; and stories featuring the Continental Op, including “The House in Turk Street,” “The Girl with the Silver Eyes," and "Flypaper.” It also includes the story "Nightshade" which has not been available in over fifty years.

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    208 pages
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  4. Publication date
    January 25, 2005
  5. Dimensions
    5.22 x 0.56 x 8.01 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1400079624
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1400079629
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“Hammett's prose was clean and entirely unique. His characters were as sharply and economically defined as any in American fiction." –The New York Times

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Sam Spade, Nick and Nora Charles, The Continental Op. In his novels and stories, Dashiell Hammett created some of the most memorable characters--detectives, dames, and assorted miscreants--in twentieth-century fiction. It is nearly impossible to imagine modern American literature without Hammett.
Vintage Hammett" features" episodes from Red Harvest," The Maltese Falcon," The Dain Curse," and The Thin Man"; and stories featuring the Continental Op, including "The House in Turk Street," "The Girl with the Silver Eyes," and "Flypaper." It also includes the story "Nightshade" which has not been available in over fifty years.
Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers, presented in attractive, affordable paperback editions.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage; First Edition (January 25, 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1400079624
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1400079629
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.22 x 0.56 x 8.01 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.2 3.2 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

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Samuel Dashiell Hammett (/ˈsæmjʊəl dəˈʃiːl ˈhæmət/; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories, a screenplay writer, and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), and the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse).

In addition to the significant influence his novels and stories had on film, Hammett "is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time" and was called, in his obituary in The New York Times, "the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction." Time magazine included Hammett's 1929 novel Red Harvest on a list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005.

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Carol Alaimo
5.0 out of 5 stars Hard boiled quality
Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2014
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I love this style of private, tough, smart, wise ass! Philip Marlowe is my favorite! Sam spade is an icon, too.
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ccmlc
1.0 out of 5 stars Not what is expected - only excerpts from many books
Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2020
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This book has excerpts from many books but not an entire book. Waste of money . Get the whole books for the true Hammett experience.
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mirasreviews
3.0 out of 5 stars Better to Read a Hammett Novel or Short Story Collection than This Sampler.
Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2006
It's difficult to know how to rate "Vintage Hammett", because the writing is generally very good. But this is part of the Vintage Reader series, which, in Vintage Books' words, "offer an attractive, accessible selection of writing that matters." Vintage Readers are intended as an introduction to the writers they represent, whose purpose is to entice the reader to buy the authors' complete works, also published by Vintage Books. "'Vintage Hammett" contains 3 short stories, one vignette, and 5 novel fragments, one from each of Hammett's novels. The trouble is that anyone can read an entire Hammett novel or part of a short story collection in the time it would take to read "Vintage Hammett". And that's what I suggest you do. I don't think that reading bits and pieces of novels is worth the effort.

As for what's here: "The House on Turk Street", "The Girl with the Silver Eyes", and "Fly Paper" are short stories included in their entirety. The first two are excellent and sure to pique interest in Hammett's short fiction. "Fly Paper" is good as well. From the novels, we get chapters 1-2 of "Red Harvest", chapter 1 of "The Dain Curse", chapters 11-13 of "The Maltese Falcon", the opening chapters of "The Glass Key", and chapters 1-5 of "The Thin Man". The first paragraph of "Red Harvest" is one of the most memorable opening paragraphs ever. Read it twice. "The Dain Curse" may be limited to one chapter here, because the novel is not very good. The other fragments are representative of their respective works but not long enough to do "The Maltese Falcon" or "The Glass Key" justice. There is also a 4-page vignette entitled "Nightshade" that was originally published in "Mystery League Magazine" in 1933. It's not worth much, but was probably included because it was not available anywhere else. (Now it is also available in "Lost Stories".)

Skip this sampler and read one of Hammett's novels or short story collections. "The Maltese Falcon" is one of the greatest American novels of the 20th century. "The Glass Key" is also excellent. And "Red Harvest" comes in third. The novels are about the same length as "Vintage Hammett", and they are more worthy of your attention. The Hammett short story collections from Vintage Books are "The Continental Op", "The Big Knockover", and "Nightmare Town". They can be read leisurely and provide plenty of material from which to judge whether or not you like Dashiell Hammett.
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ferruccio
5.0 out of 5 stars ottimo
Reviewed in Italy on April 15, 2015
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Tutto bene, nessun problema, spedizione pronta, imballaggio buono, libro interessante e avvincente come tutti quelli di Hammett. Pretendere recensioni OBBLIGATORIAMENTE più lunghe è assurdo e scortese: spesso bastano due parole.
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