Pulp fiction has been looked down on as a guilty pleasure, but it offers the perfect form of entertainment: the very best storytelling filled with action, surprises, sound and fury. In short, all the exhiliration of a roller-coaster ride. The 1920s in America saw the proliferation of hundreds of dubiously named but thrillingly entertaining pulp magazines in America: Black Mask, Amazing, Astounding, Spicy Stories, Ace-High, Detective Magazine, Dare-Devil Aces. It was in these luridly-coloured publications, printed on the cheapest pulp paper, that the first gems began to appear. The one golden rule for writers of pulp fiction was to adhere to the art of storytelling. Each story had to have a beginning, an end, economically-etched characters, but plenty going on, both in terms of action and emotions. Pulp magazines were the TV of their day, plucking readers from drab lives and planting them firmly in thrilling make-believe, successors...



The text of the book was translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence program. For the most part, the translation of the text is of very high quality, but in some cases, due to the imperfection of the technology, there may be incorrect phrase translations in the text, as well as single words and expressions may not be translated.
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Name of the Author
Билл Пронзини
Бруно Травен
Бруно Фишер
Говард Браун
Дан Гордон
Дей Кин
Джеймс Кейн Маллахэн
Джил Брюер
Джим Томпсон
Джо Горес
Джон Данн Макдональд
Джон Лутц
Дональд Уэстлейк
Дэвид Гудис
Дэшил Хэммет
Лоуренс Блок
Макс Коллинз Аллан
Максим Якубовски
Микки Спиллейн
Пол Кейн
Роберт Беллем
Роберт Блох Альберт
Роберт Тернер
Роджер Торри
Росс МакДональд
Уильям Голт Кэмпбелл
Уильям Макгиверн Питер
Уильям Нолан Фрэнсис
Уильям Родж Д.
Франк Рид Р.
Фредерик Браун
Чарлз Уилфорд
Чарльз Вильямс
Шайлер Эдсолл Г.
Language
Ukrainian
Release date
2014

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The New Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction

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