The Big Sleep and Other Novel

Informationen zum Autor Raymond Chandler Klappentext Raymond Thornton Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888, but moved to England with his family when he was twelve, where he attended Dulwich College, alma mater to some of the twentieth century's most renowned writers. Returning to America in 1912, he settled in California, worked in a number of jobs, and later married. It was during the Depression era that he seriously turned his hand to writing, and his first published story appeared in the pulp magazine Black Mask in 1933, followed six years later, when he was fifty, by his first novel, The Big Sleep . Chandler died in 1959, having established himself as the finest crime writer in America. Zusammenfassung Often imitated but never bettered, it is in Marlowe's long shadow that every fictional detective must stand - and under the influence of Raymond Chandler's addictive prose that every crime author must write. Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family - and an attendant cast of colourful underworld figures.

About the author

Raymond Thornton Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888, but moved to England with his family when he was twelve, where he attended Dulwich College, alma mater to some of the twentieth century's most renowned writers. Returning to America in 1912, he settled in California, worked in a number of jobs, and later married. It was during the Depression era that he seriously turned his hand to writing, and his first published story appeared in the pulp magazine Black Mask in 1933, followed six years later, when he was fifty, by his first novel, The Big Sleep. Chandler died in 1959, having established himself as the finest crime writer in America.

Product details

• Authors: Raymond Chandler, Chandler Raymond
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.02.2000
• EAN: 9780141182612
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118261-2
• No. of pages: 672
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 29 mm
• Series: Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Los Angeles, FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Collections & Anthologies, c 1930 to c 1939, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Anthologies (non-poetry)