The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).

The novelist Raymond Chandler criticised her in his essay, " The Simple Art of Murder ", and the American literary critic Edmund Wilson was dismissive of Christie and the detective fiction genre generally in his New Yorker essay, " Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?

Furthermore, while Neuromancer < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s narrator may have had an unusual " voice " for science fiction, much older examples can be found: Gibson's narrative voice, for example, resembles that of an updated Raymond Chandler, as in his novel The Big Sleep ( 1939 ).

In the late 1930s, Raymond Chandler updated the form with his private detective Philip Marlowe, who brought a more intimate voice to the detective than the more distanced, " operatives report " style of Hammett's Continental Op stories.

The October 1934 issue of Black Mask ( magazine ) | Black Mask featured the first appearance of the detective character whom Raymond Chandler would develop into the famous Philip Marlowe.

Raymond Chandler, who debuted as a novelist with The Big Sleep in 1939, soon became the most famous author of the hardboiled school.

Hawks re-teamed with the newlyweds in 1946 with The Big Sleep, based on the Philip Marlowe detective novel by Raymond Chandler.

Just months after wrapping the film, Bogart and Bacall were reunited for their second movie together, the film noir The Big Sleep, based on the novel by Raymond Chandler, again with script help from William Faulkner.

* Raymond Chandler, writer of the Marlowe series.

* 1888 – Raymond Chandler, American novelist ( d. 1959 )

The film's overall structure was influenced by the detective fiction of Raymond Chandler.

Ethan said, " We wanted something that would generate a certain narrative feeling – like a modern Raymond Chandler story, and that's why it had to be set in Los Angeles ... We wanted to have a narrative flow, a story that moves like a Chandler book through different parts of town and different social classes ".

* Raymond F. Chandler, current Sergeant Major of the Army

Their lyrics tended to be straight-out poetry ; comparisons to Charles Bukowski and Raymond Chandler were made from the start.

* March 26 – Raymond Chandler, American-born novelist ( b. 1888 )

* July 23 – Raymond Chandler, American-born novelist ( d. 1959 )

Wilder was originally drawn to this material after having worked with Raymond Chandler on the screenplay for Double Indemnity.

Now recognized as a major talent, Altman had critical breakthroughs with McCabe & Mrs. Miller ( 1971 ), known for its gritty portrayal of the American frontier ; The Long Goodbye ( 1973 ), a remake of a Raymond Chandler novel ; Thieves Like Us ( 1974 ), and Nashville ( 1975 ).

The article also compared Fleming unfavourably to John Buchan and Raymond Chandler in both moral and literary measures.

Noted novelists and playwrights nominated in this category include: George Bernard Shaw ( who shared an award for an adaptation of his play Pygmalion ), Graham Greene, Tennessee Williams, Vladimir Nabokov, James Hilton, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Lillian Hellman, Irwin Shaw, James Agee, Norman Corwin, S. J.

The story begins as a Raymond Chandler pastiche, and follows a private investigator named Clyde Umney as he goes about what he thinks is just another morning in 1930s Los Angeles.

The Big Sleep ( 1939 ) is a hardboiled crime novel by Raymond Chandler, the first in his acclaimed series about detective Philip Marlowe.

* The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler: A book review

Category: Novels by Raymond Chandler

Between 1642 and 1650 a French missionary Raymond Breton became the first regular European visitor to the island.

Raymond also coined an aphorism he dubbed " Linus ' Law ", inspired by Linus Torvalds: " Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow ", that first appeared in The Cathedral and the Bazaar.

" We'd be oversimplifying things in calling film noir oneiric, strange, erotic, ambivalent, and cruel ": this set of attributes constitutes the first of many attempts to define film noir made by French critics Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton in their 1955 book Panorama du film noir américain 1941 – 1953 ( A Panorama of American Film Noir ), the original and seminal extended treatment of the subject.

The first science fiction fanzine, The Comet, was published in 1930 by the Science Correspondence Club in Chicago and edited by Raymond A. Palmer and Walter Dennis.

Raymond E. Brown, a scholar of the social environment where the Gospel and Letters of John emerged, labeled the first and second parts the " Book of Signs " and the " Book of Glory ", respectively.

Raymond Edler, an American university student studying at Sophia University in Tokyo, took up kickboxing and won the AJKC middleweight title in 1972 ; he was the first non-Thai to be officially ranked in the sport of Thai boxing, when in 1972 Rajadamnern ranked him no.

Raymond was the wealthier and more powerful of the two, but at first he refused to become king, perhaps attempting to show his piety and probably hoping that the other nobles would insist upon his election anyway.

The subsequent events have often been interpreted as a struggle between two opposing factions, the " court party ", made up of Baldwin's mother, Amalric's first wife Agnes of Courtenay, her immediate family, and recent arrivals from Europe who were inexperienced in the affairs of the kingdom and who were in favour of war with Saladin ; and the " noble party ", led by Raymond of Tripoli and the lesser nobility of the kingdom, who favoured peaceful co-existence with the Muslims.

Miles was assassinated in October, 1174, and Count Raymond III of Tripoli, Amalric's first cousin, became regent.

Overseen by Oliver Standingford and Raymond Thompson of J. Lyons and Co., and modelled closely on the Cambridge EDSAC, LEO I ran its first business application in 1951.

J. Lyons and Co., one of the UK's leading catering and food manufacturing companies in the first half of the 20th century, sent two of its senior managers, Oliver Standingford and Raymond Thompson, to the USA in 1947 to look at new business methods developed during the Second World War.

Raymond Davis Jr. and Masatoshi Koshiba were jointly awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics ; Davis for his pioneer work on cosmic neutrinos and Koshiba for the first real time observation of supernova neutrinos.

At that first meeting there was Al Capp, Walt Kelly, Alex Raymond, Ernie Bushmiller, Milton Caniff, all of them just sitting there, big as life.

In May 1930 the first science fiction fan magazine, The Comet, was produced by the Chicago branch of the Science Correspondence Club under the editorship of Raymond A. Palmer ( later a noted, and notorious, sf magazine editor ) and Walter Dennis.

* Rodeo's first side-delivery bucking chute is designed and made by the Bascom boys ( Raymond, Mel, Earl ) and their father John W. Bascom at Welling, Alberta Canada.

* August 7 – Raymond Edward Welch becomes the first one legged man to scale the 6, 288 ft. Mount Washington, NH.

** Raymond du Puy, the first Grand Master of the Order of the Knights Hospitaller.

The first Halloween document, requested by senior vice-president James Allchin for the attention of senior vice-president Paul Maritz and written by Microsoft program manager Vinod Valloppillil, was leaked to Eric Raymond in October 1998, who immediately published an annotated version on his web site.

The first test of Manuel's reign came in 1144, when he was faced with a demand by Raymond, Prince of Antioch for the cession of Cilician territories.

Realization and demonstration, on October 29, 2001, of the first digital cinema transmission by satellite in Europe of a feature film by Bernard Pauchon, Alain Lorentz, Raymond Melwig, Philippe Binant.

Raymond intends to marry Idris ( with whom Lionel is in love ) as a first step towards becoming king, with the help of the Countess.

In the first year of its foundation, Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan publicly performed a Satanic marriage of Judith Case and journalist John Raymond.

At Wimbledon, Davenport and Raymond, the fourth seeded team, were upset in the first round.

Davenport played her first doubles tournament of the year in Filderstadt in October, where she partnered with Lisa Raymond to win the title.