For other uses, see The Big Sleep (disambiguation).
1939 novel by Raymond Chandler
The Big Sleep
First-edition cover
Author
Raymond Chandler
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Philip Marlowe
Genre
Hardboiled detective, crime
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Publication date
1939
Pages
277
OCLC
42659496
Followed by
Farewell, My Lovely
The Big Sleep (1939) is a hardboiled crime novel by American-British writer Raymond Chandler, the first to feature the detective Philip Marlowe. It has been adapted for film twice, in 1946 and again in 1978. The story is set in Los Angeles.
The story is noted for its complexity, with characters double-crossing one another and secrets being exposed throughout the narrative. The title is a euphemism for death; the final pages of the book refer to a rumination about "sleeping the big sleep".
In 1999, the book was voted 96th of Le Monde's "100 Books of the Century". In 2005, it was included in Time magazine's "List of the 100 Best Novels".[1]
^"All Time 100 Novels". Time. 16 October 2005. Archived from the original on 22 October 2005. Retrieved 25 May 2010.
TheBigSleep (1939) is a hardboiled crime novel by American-British writer Raymond Chandler, the first to feature the detective Philip Marlowe. It has...
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(1976), The BigSleep (1978), Q (1982), Blue Thunder (1983), Amityville 3-D (1983), Cat's Eye (1985) and At Close Range (1986) and played the role of Francine...
writer known as "the Queen of Space Opera." She was also a screenwriter, known for TheBigSleep (1946), Rio Bravo (1959), and The Long Goodbye (1973)...
Sentinel (1977), the neo-noir TheBigSleep (1978), the satirical comedy Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976), and the Revisionist Westerns Lawman...
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