Down These Mean Streets a Man Must Go: Raymond Chandler's Knight

Tells how Raymond Chandler developed the figure of the hard-boiled detective Philip Marlowe from the material and concerns of his own life.

"A linguistic event. Gutter language, Spanish imagery and personal poetics . . . mingle into a kind of individual statement that has very much its own sound." -

The amazing adventures of Marvel Comics' Spider-Man continue in this all-new novel. A new designer drug with physically altering side effects sweeps through New

This is a collection of early short stories and an essay which gave the book its name. The latter is fairly short and its main idea is an argument for the virtu