The Big Sleep
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4.2 • 152 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The Big Sleep (1939) is a hardboiled crime novel by Raymond Chandler, the first to feature detective Philip Marlowe. The work has been adapted twice into film, once in 1946 and again in 1978. The story is set in Los Angeles, California and is noted for its complexity, with many characters double-crossing one another and many secrets being exposed throughout the narrative. The title is a euphemism for death; it refers to a rumination in the final pages of the book about "sleeping the big sleep."
In 1999, the book was voted ninety-sixth of Le Monde's "100 Books of the Century". In 2005, it was included in "TIME's List of the 100 Best Novels."
Customer Reviews
Great Chandler read
The story is pure Chandler greatness, however this copy has a lot of spelling errors, the word hall is mis-spelled as hail all the way through.. the story itself is A-1 Five Stars.
Typos
This book has a good amount of typos. I'd be wary of that when purchasing.
Spell Check Needed
Whoever put this e book together needs to use spell check—numerous errors and well as some missing words. However, Chandler tells a great story