Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 4: The Big Sleep

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OUP Oxford, Dec 20, 2007 - Foreign Language Study - 96 pages
General Sternwood has four million dollars, and two young daughters, both pretty and both wild. He's an old, sick man, close to death, but he doesn't like being blackmailed. So he asks private detective Philip Marlowe to get the blackmailer off his back. Marlowe knows the dark side of life in Los Angeles well, and nothing much surprises him. But the Sternwood girls are a lot wilder than their old father realizes. They like men, drink, drugs - and it's not just a question of blackmail.

About the author (2007)

Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago, Illinois on July 23, 1888. Before becoming a professional writer in 1933, he worked as a reporter, an accountant, bookkeeper, and auditor. He wrote several novels featuring private detective Philip Marlowe including The Big Sleep, The High Window, The Lady in the Lake, The Little Sister, and The Long Goodbye. In addition to novels and short stories, he wrote screenplays. He won two academy awards, for Double Indemnity (1944) and The Blue Dahlia (1946). He died on March 26, 1959.

Bibliographic information

TitleOxford Bookworms Library: Stage 4: The Big Sleep
Oxford Bookworms Library
Oxford Bookworms ELT
AuthorsRaymond Chandler, Rosalie Kerr
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherOUP Oxford, 2007
ISBN0194791653, 9780194791656
Length96 pages
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Foreign Language Study / English as a Second Language
  
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