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<b>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. </b> 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, <i>The Big Sleep</i>. 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
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- Released
- 2005
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- Title
- The Big Sleep
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Raymond Chandler
- Publisher
- Noordhoff Uitgevers
- Released
- 2005
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 251
- ISBN10
- 9001500625
- ISBN13
- 9789001500627
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Mystery Novels, Classics, USA, Murders, 20th century, American Literature, Detective Fiction, Detective, Mysterious, Mysteries, Noir, Crime Rate, California, Pulp Fiction, 1930s
- Description
- <b>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. </b> 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, <i>The Big Sleep</i>. 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.