by Raymond Chandler, Rosalie Kerr · Oxford University Press España, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780194230278
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«The Big Sleep» is the adaptation of Raymond Chandler's noir novel, retold by Rosalie Kerr, in paperback (96 pages, in English).
General Sternwood, an elderly, sick millionaire from Los Angeles, hires detective Philip Marlowe to get rid of a blackmailer. Marlowe knows the dark side of the city well, but discovers that the general's daughters lead far more turbulent lives than their father imagines, and the case gets complicated.
Part of the Oxford Bookworms Library collection, Stage 4, with a vocabulary limited to 1,400 words.
Recommended for intermediate-level English students and for readers aged 16 and up.
Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a pulp magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published seven novels during his lifetime. All but Playback have been made into motion pictures, some more than once.
