The Long Goodbye (1953) is a milestone in the genre. This novel demonstrated for the first time that hard-boiled fiction could serve as a vehicle for social comment and critique. While the apparent plot is slower paced and less metaphoric than...
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Автор: Конан Дойл Артур
Серия: Sherlock Holmes short story collections #5
Язык: английский
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