Unpublished Raymond Chandler Work Discovered

Michael Schaub at the Los Angeles Times reports on the discovery of a unpublished work by crime novelist Raymond Chandler.

Most fans of Raymond Chandler associate the author with his hardboiled mystery novels and Philip Marlowe, his tough 1940s private detective with a taste for nicotine and alcohol. But it turns out there was another side to the iconic writer.

Los Angeles author Kim Cooper discovered an unpublished comic libretto written by Chandler in the Library of Congress, Sarah Weinman writes at the Guardian. The short text, containing the lyrics to an opera called "The Princess and the Pedlar," has been in the library for almost 100 years.

 

Chandler, who was born in America, raised in England and moved back to the U.S. after college, registered the libretto with the Library of Congress in 1917. That year, America had finally joined World War I, and Chandler traveled to British Columbia to enlist in the Canadian Army. The two events coincide: He enlisted Aug. 14; on Aug. 29, the Library of Congress registered his libretto.     

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