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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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Głęboki sen, Mieczysław Derbień, Raymond Chandler
- Language
- Released
- 1985
- Binding
- (Paperback),
- Book condition
- Damaged
- Price
- €1.86
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- Title
- Głęboki sen
- Language
- Polish
- Authors
- Mieczysław Derbień, Raymond Chandler
- Publisher
- Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza
- Released
- 1985
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN10
- 8303004824
- ISBN13
- 9788303004826
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Mystery Novels, Thriller, Classics, USA, Murders, American Literature, Detective Fiction, Detective, Adapted for Film, Drugs, Kidnappings, Intrigues, Noir, 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.