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《漫长的告别》雷蒙·钱德勒（1888-1959），美国著名作家。一生共出版七部长篇小说，代表作《漫长的告别》获1955年爱伦·坡很好小说奖，位列1995年美国推理协会评选的“目前百部推理小说”第13名。钱德勒以·马洛为主人翁的侦探系列作品，半世纪以来早已突破一般类型小说的局限，跻身经典文学的殿堂，其塑造的侦探·马洛被评为极富魅力的男人。

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《漫长的告别》美国“硬汉派”侦探大师雷蒙·钱德勒代表作品，是作者的第六部长篇小说，荣获爱伦·坡小说奖，入选美国推理协会“目前百部推理小说”。日本作家村上春树曾经反复阅读并极为推崇的作品。《漫长的告别》为英文原版，经典32开本便于随身携带阅读，精校版忠于原著，同时提供英文朗读免费下载。让读者在品读精彩故事的同时，亦能提升英语阅读水平，下载方式详见图书封底博客链接。

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The first time I laid eyes on Terry Lennox he was drunk in a Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith outside the terrace of The Dancers. The parking lot attendant had brought the car out and he was still holding the door open because Terry Lennox’s left foot was still dangling outside, as if he had forgotten he had one. He had a young-looking face but his hair was bone white. You could tell by his eyes that he was plastered to the hairline, but otherwise he looked like any other nice young guy in a dinner jacket who had been spending too much money in a joint that exists for that purpose and for no other.There was a girl beside him. Her hair was a lovely shade of dark red and she had a distant smile on her lips and over her shoulders she had a blue mink that almost made the Rolls-Royce look like just another automobile. It didn’t quite. Nothing can. The attendant was the usual half-tough character in a white coat with the name of the restaurant stitched across the front of it in red. He was getting fed up.“Look, mister,” he said with an edge to his voice, “would you mind a whole lot pulling your leg into the car so I can kind of shut the door? Or should I open it all the way so you can fall out?”The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back. It didn’t bother him enough to give him the shakes. At The Dancers they get the sort of people that disillusion you about what a lot of golfing money can do for the personality.A low-swung foreign speedster with no top drifted into the parking lot and a man got out of it and used the dash lighter on a long cigarette. He was wearing a pullover check shirt, yellow slacks, and riding boots. He strolled off trailing clouds of incense, not even bothering to look towards the Rolls-Royce. He probably thought it was corny. At the foot of the steps up to the terrace he paused to stick a monocle in his eye.The girl said with a nice burst of charm: “I have a wonderful idea, darling. Why don’t we just take a cab to your place and get your convertible out? It’s such a wonderful night for a run up the coast to Montecito. I know some people there who are throwing a dance around the pool.”The white-haired lad said politely: “Awfully sorry, but I don’t have it any more. I was compelled to sell it.” From his voice and articulation you wouldn’t have known he had had anything stronger than orange juice to drink.“Sold it, darling? How do you mean?” She slid away from him along the seat but her voice slid away a lot farther than that.“I mean I had to,” he said. “For eating money.”“Oh, I see.” A slice of spumoni wouldn’t have melted on her now. The attendant had the white-haired boy right where he could reach him—in a low-income bracket. “Look, buster,” he said,“I’ve got to put a car away. See you some more some other time— maybe.”He let the door swing open. The drunk promptly slid off the seat and landed on the blacktop on the seat of his pants. So I went over and dropped my nickel. I guess it’s always a mistake to interfere with a drunk. Even if he knows and likes you he is always liable to haul off and poke you in the teeth. I got him under the arms and got him up on his feet.“Thank you so very much,” he said politely.The girl slid under the wheel. “He gets so goddam English when he’s loaded,” she said in a stainless-steel voice. “Thanks for catching him.”“I’ll get him in the back of the car,” I said.“I’m terribly sorry. I’m late for an engagement.” She let the clutch in and the Rolls started to glide. “He’s just a lost dog,” she added with a cool smile. “Perhaps you can find a home for him. He’s housebroken—more or less.”And the Rolls ticked down the entrance driveway onto Sunset Boulevard, made a right turn, and was gone. I was looking after her when the attendant came back. And I was still holding the man up and he was now sound asleep.

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When someone asks, “Which three books have meant the most to you?” I can answer without having to think: THE GREAT GATSBY, Dostoevsky’s THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV, and Raymond Chandler’s THE LONG GOODBYE. All three have been indispensable to me (both as a reader and as a writer)…— Haruki Murakami（村上村树）The Long Goodbye is a novel by Raymond Chandler, published in 1953, his sixth novel featuring the private investigator Philip Marlowe. Some critics consider it inferior to The Big Sleep or Farewell, My Lovely, but others rank it as the best of his work. Chandler, in a letter to a friend, called the novel “my best book”.The novel is notable for using hard-boiled detective fiction as a vehicle for so criticism and for including autobiographical elements from Chandler’s life. It was dramatized for television in 1954 for the anthology series Climax!. In 1955, the novel received the Edgar Award for Best Novel. In 1973, Robert Altman filmed an adaptation set in contemporary Los Angeles, with Elliott Gould as Marlowe. An adaptation of the novel was broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on 16 January 1978.

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