by Raymond Chandler · Oxford University Press España, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780194791656
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«The Big Sleep» is the crime novel by Raymond Chandler, published by Oxford University Press España, S.A. in paperback (96 pages, in English).
Philip Marlowe, private detective, investigates blackmail against the sick millionaire General Sternwood and ventures into the underworld of Los Angeles, where money and power conceal a web of secrets; the general's daughters turn out to be far more dangerous than they seem.
It belongs to the Oxford Bookworms Library collection, level 4, with 1,400 vocabulary words, adapted by Rosalie Kerr and a word count of 15,960.
Suitable reading for intermediate-level English students (B1+) who want to practice with a classic of the noir genre and graded vocabulary.
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.
