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You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. Having been asked by general sternwood to deal with a blackmailer, marlowe enters the world of gangsters, femmes fatale, pornography, blackmail and murder, in this classic noir novel. Listen to great stories from the following ranges wherever you are. Chandler spent a lot of time obsessing over the speech and dialogue of his characters. The work has been adapted twice into film, once in 1946 and again in 1978. Listen to raymond chandlers the big sleep by raymond chandler,jonathan lethem,judith freeman for free with a 30 day free trial. Listen to the big sleep by raymond chandler, bbc radio 4 rent unlimited audio books on cd. This onepage guide includes a plot summary and brief analysis of the big sleep by raymond chandler. In 1932, at age fortyfour, raymond chandler decided to become a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the depression. The big sleep audiobook by raymond chandler rakuten kobo. Its a detective novel written in the late 1930s, and the start of the philip marlowe series. Thats why you see so much slang and vernacular speech peppered throughout the dialogue in the big sleep.
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Nov 24, 2014 the big sleep was published in the spring of 1939. The big sleep audiobook cd san antonio public library. The big sleep 1939 is a hardboiled crime novel by raymond chandler, the first in his acclaimed series about detective philip marlowe. Old man sternwood, crippled and wheelchairbound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants. It has been adapted for film twice, in 1946 and again in 1978. The big sleep audiobook download, free online audio books. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. With humphrey bogart, lauren bacall, john ridgely, martha vickers. A brand new bbc radio 4 fullcast dramatisation of a classic raymond chandler mystery featuring private eye, philip marlowe. Originally published before the big sleep between 19341939 also available is the classic movie starring humphrey bogart the big sleep 1946 dvd and an audio book version the big sleep. The big sleep is a complete mystery in a sense that it has all kinds of criminals, death scenes and always keeps you guessing and you guess wrong every time.
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