{"product_id":"9781598532180","title":"Dashiell Hammett: The Library of America Edition: Hammett: LOA Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eHere, for the first time in a deluxe collector’s box, is the most comprehensive edition of the hard-boiled crime fiction of Dashiell Hammett ever published. \u003ci\u003eComplete Novels\u003c\/i\u003e, the first of two volumes gathered here, presents the five groundbreaking books whose gritty, lean prose won admiration from such contemporaries as Stein, Hemingway, and Faulkner: \u003ci\u003eRed Harvest\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Dain Curse\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Maltese Falcon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Key,\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Thin Man\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the stories he wrote for \u003ci\u003eBlack Mask\u003c\/i\u003e and other pulp magazines in the 1920s and 1930s, Hammett used the vernacular adventure tale to register the jarring textures and revved-up cadences of modern America. \u003ci\u003eCrime Stories \u0026amp; Other Writings\u003c\/i\u003e presents 24 of these classic tales, along with revealing essays and an early, unfinished version of his novel \u003ci\u003eThe Thin Man\u003c\/i\u003e. The texts, reprinted here for the first time, are those that appeared originally in the pulps, without the revisions introduced by later editors. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An invaluable collection.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050107551984,"sku":"9781598532180","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781598532180_p0.jpg?v=1763814179","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781598532180","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}