Collection: Fiction (Academy Use Only)

The author takes her New Orleans heroine, Edna Pontellier, through the successive stages of a compelling but ultimately tragic search for personal freedom.

The Big Sleep, Chandler’s first novel, introduces Philip Marlowe, a private detective inhabiting the seamy side of Los Angeles in the 1930s, as he takes on a case involving a paralysed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail and murder. In Farewell, My Lovely, Marlowe deals wi...

Edgar Allan Poe's gift for the macabre influenced Baudelaire and French symbolism, Freudian analysis and the detective novel and the Hollywood film. His psychologically profound stories, which comprise this book, represent the darker side of the 19th century sensibility.