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Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid....He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man.This is the Code of the Private Eye as defined by Raymond Chandler in his 1944 essay The Simple Act of Murder . Such a man was Philip Marlowe, private eye, an educated, heroic, streetwise, rugged individualist and the hero of Chandler's first novel, The Big Sleep . This work established Chandler as the master of the 'hard-boiled' detective novel, and his articulate and literary style of writing won him a large audience, which ranged from the man in the street to the most sophisticated intellectual.
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The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
- Language
- Released
- 1994
- Binding
- (Paperback),
- Book condition
- Good
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- €4.49
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- Title
- The Big Sleep
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Raymond Chandler
- Publisher
- Reclam
- Released
- 1994
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 378
- ISBN10
- 3150090091
- ISBN13
- 9783150090091
- Series
- Categories
- Tags
- Mystery Novels, USA, Murders, American Literature, Detective, Adapted for Film, Drugs, Kidnappings, Noir, Intrigues, Mafia, Jealousy, Frauds, California, Private Detective, Blackmail, Los Angeles, Gambling, Pornography, Smuggling, Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction
- First published
- 1939
- Original title
- The Big Sleep
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid....He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man.This is the Code of the Private Eye as defined by Raymond Chandler in his 1944 essay The Simple Act of Murder . Such a man was Philip Marlowe, private eye, an educated, heroic, streetwise, rugged individualist and the hero of Chandler's first novel, The Big Sleep . This work established Chandler as the master of the 'hard-boiled' detective novel, and his articulate and literary style of writing won him a large audience, which ranged from the man in the street to the most sophisticated intellectual.