The Big Sleep is Raymond Chandler's most famous & popular novel of all Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family Old man Sternwood crippled & wheelchair-bound is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer & he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away But with Sternwood's two wild devil-may-care daughters prowling LA's seedy backstreets Marlowe's got his work cut out
- & that's before he stumbles over the first corpse ' Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence' Daily Telegraph ' One of the greatest crime writers who set standards others still try to attain' Sunday Times' Chandler is an original stylist creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes' Anthony Burgess Best-known as the creator of the original private eye Philip Marlowe Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 & died in 1959 Many of his books have been adapted for the screen & he is widely regarded as one of the very greatest writers of detective fiction His books include The Big Sleep The Little Sister Farewell My Lovely The Long Good-bye The Lady in the Lake Playback Killer in the Rain The High Window & Trouble is My Business
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Director Winner switched the setting of Chandler&s classic Marlowe mystery from 1940s Los Angeles to 1970s London perhaps to avoid comparison with its forerunner The 1946 Bogart Bacall masterpiece is a tough act to follow but this version is interesting in its own right for Mitchum&s take on the fabled private eye ...

Raymond Chandler was America's preeminent writer of detective fiction & this Penguin Modern Classics edition of The Big Sleep & Other Novels collects three of the best novels to feature his hard-drinking philosophising PI Philip Marlowe Raymond Chandler created the fast talking trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel The Big Sleep in 1939 Often imitated but never bettered it is in Marlowe's long shadow that every fictional detective must stand
- & under the influence of Raymond Chandler's addictive prose that every crime author must write Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family
- & an attendant cast of colourful underworld figures
- is the background to a story reflecting all the tarnished glitter of the great American Dream The hard-boiled detective's iconic image burns just as brightly in Farewell My Lovely on the trail of a missing nightclub crooner & the inimitable Marlowe is able to prove that trouble really is his business in Raymond Chandler's brilliant epitaph The Long Goodbye Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) was born in Chicago It was during the Depression era that he seriously turned his hand to writing & his first published story appeared in the pulp magazine Black Mask in 1933 followed six years later by his first novel The Big Sleep adapted into Howard Hawks' classic 1946 film noir starring Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall If you liked The Big Sleep & Other Novels you might enjoy Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man also available in Penguin Modern Classics' One of the greatest crime writers who set standards that others still try to attain' Sunday Times' Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America & America has never looked the same to us since' Paul Auster author of The New York Trilogy' Chandler wrote like a slumming angel & invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angelos with a romantic presence' Ross Macdonald author of The Drowning Pool


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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family Before the complex case is over he&s seen murder blackmail & what might be love ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family to deal with a blackmailer Arthur Geiger His life takes an unexpected turn as he pursues the case & Arthur is found dead Format PALLanguage English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 1 ...

Featuring more than 500 reusable stickers this beautifully illustrated & jam- packed sticker activity book brings the natural world to life ...

Featuring more than 500 reusable stickers this beautifully illustrated & jam- packed activity book brings the world of bugs to life ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play In this sweeping pioneer adventure a courageous young scout leads hundreds of settlers across treacherous cliffs through brutal snowstorms Indian attacks & buffalo stampedes to their destiny out west Along the way he loses his heart to a beautiful pioneer woman & never stops trying to win her love Tyrone Power co-stars in this visually spectacular epic from Raoul Walsh Actors John Wayne Marguerite Churchill David Rollins Ward Bond Tyrone Power Tyrone Power Jnr Helen Parrish Tully Marshall El Brendel & Charles Stevens Director Raoul Walsh Certificate Universal Suitable for All Year 1930 Screen 1331 Languages English
- Dolby (20) Stereo Subtitles Dutch; French; English for the hearing impaired Closed Captions Yes Duration 1 hour & 56 minutes (approx)
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play In 1900 unscrupulous timber baron Jim Fallon (Douglas) plants to take advantage of a new laq & make millions off California redwood Much of the land he hopes to grab has been homesteaded by a Quaker colony who try to persuade him to spare the giant sequoiasbut these are the very trees he wants most Expert at manipulating others Fallon finds that the other sharks are at his own heels & forms an unlikely alliance ...

An old man tugs on a giant turnip but cannot move it at all With help from the old lady the boy & girl & a whole host of other characters will he able to pull it out of the ground? The structure of this wordless text shows how a story is built up through a series of events Lilac Band 0
- wordless book that tells a story through pictures & is designed to develop understanding about how stories work Text type
- Fiction a wordless traditional story A storyboard on pages 14 & 15 shows the sequence of events in six numbered stages This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery

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