The Big Sleep and Other Novels
$29.78
- Paperback
672 pages
- Release Date
4 September 2000
Summary
Raymond Chandler created the fast-talking, trouble-seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel, The Big Sleep, in 1939. Marlowe’s entanglement with the Sternwood family – and an attendant cast of colorful underworld figures – is the background to a story reflecting all the tarnished glitter of the great American Dream.
The detective’s iconic image burns just as brightly in Farewell, My Lovely, on the trail of a missing nightclub crooner. …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141182612 |
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| ISBN-10: | 014118261X |
| Author: | Raymond Chandler |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 672 |
| Release Date: | 4 September 2000 |
| Weight: | 464g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 30mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
Raymond Chandler
Raymond Thornton Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888, but moved to England with his family when he was twelve, where he attended Dulwich College, alma mater to some of the twentieth century’s most renowned writers. Returning to America in 1912, he settled in California, worked in a number of jobs, and later married. It was during the Depression era that he seriously turned his hand to writing, and his first published story appeared in the pulp magazine Black Mask in 1933, followed six years later, when he was fifty, by his first novel, The Big Sleep. Chandler died in 1959, having established himself as the finest crime writer in America.
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