An edition of The Big Sleep (1939)

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An edition of The Big Sleep (1939)

The big sleep

by

  • ★★★★ 4.15 ·
  • 13 Ratings
  • 156 Want to read
  • 6 Currently reading
  • 31 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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Cover of: Big Sleep
Big Sleep
2018, Penguin Books, Limited
in English
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Big Sleep
2014, Penguin Books, Limited
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Cover of: The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep
Dec 20, 2007, Oxford University Press, USA
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The big sleep
2004, Penguin
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Cover of: The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep
2002, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Alfred A. Knopf
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Chang mian bu xing
2002, Qun zhong chu ban she
in Chinese
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The big sleep
1992, Vintage Books
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Le grand sommeil
1987, Gallimard
in French
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The Big Sleep
April 12, 1978, Vintage
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Cover of: The big sleep
The big sleep
1976, Vintage Books
in English
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Book Details

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London

Edition Notes

Series
Penguin classics

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813.52

The Physical Object

Pagination
262 pages
Number of pages
262

ID Numbers

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

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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