Bibliograph

The big sleep, Raymond Chandler

Type

Label

The big sleep, Raymond Chandler

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The big sleep

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Raymond Chandler

Series statement

Philip Marlowe mystery, 1

Summary

The Big Sleep (1939) is a hardboiled crime novel by Raymond Chandler, the first to feature detective Philip Marlowe. The work has been adapted twice into film, once in 1946 and again in 1978. The story is set in Los Angeles, California and is noted for its complexity, with many characters double-crossing one another and many secrets being exposed throughout the narrative. The title is a euphemism for death; it refers to a rumination in the final pages of the book about "sleeping the big sleep." In 1999, the book was voted ninety-sixth of Le Monde's "100 Books of the Century". In 2005, it was included in "TIME's List of the 100 Best Novels."

Target audience

adult

Classification