An edition of The Big Sleep (1939)

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An edition of The Big Sleep (1939)

The big sleep

by

  • ★★★★ 4.2 (16 ratings) ·
  • 199 Want to read
  • 11 Currently reading
  • 37 Have read

Raymond Chandler created the fast-talking, trouble-seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel, 'The Big Sleep'.

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Publisher
Penguin
Language
English
Pages
262

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Subjects

Fiction, Philip Marlowe (Fictitious character), Private investigators, Detective and mystery stories, Women, General, Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled, Marlowe, philip (fictitious character), fiction, California, fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Private investigators, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Children's fiction, Mystery and detective stories, English language, textbooks for foreign speakers, Mystery & detective

People

Philip Marlowe (Fictitious character)

Places

Los Angeles (Calif.), California, Los Angeles

Times

1930s

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Edition Availability
Cover of: The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep
2018, Penguin Books, Limited
in English
Cover of: The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep
2014, Penguin Books, Limited
in English
Cover of: The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep
Dec 20, 2007, Oxford University Press, USA
Cover of: The big sleep
The big sleep
2004, Penguin
in English
Cover of: The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep
2002, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Alfred A. Knopf
E-book in English
Cover of: Chang mian bu xing
Chang mian bu xing
2002, Qun zhong chu ban she
in Chinese
Cover of: The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep
1992, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage crime/Black Lizard ed.
Cover of: Le grand sommeil
Le grand sommeil
1987, Gallimard
in French
Cover of: The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep
April 12, 1978, Vintage
in English
Cover of: The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep
1976, Vintage Books
in English

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Edition Notes

Published in
London
Series
Penguin classics

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813.52

The Physical Object

Pagination
262 pages
Number of pages
262

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL39798510M
Internet Archive
bigsleep0000chan_m2k7
ISBN 10
0141193158
ISBN 13
9780141193151
OCLC/WorldCat
1113084625

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL15400582W

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Work Description

Philip Marlowe, a private eye who operates in Los Angeles's seamy underside during the 1930s, takes on his first case, which involves a paralyzed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail, and murder

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