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        The Big Sleep


        setting

        Los Angeles

        time

        1940s

        language

        English

        region

        North America

        year published

        1939

        page count

        277

        difficulty

        Intermediate

        main characters

        Philip Marlowe

        Rip's impressions

        Reserved for Guest Editor

        first line

        It was about eleven o’clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills.

        last lines

        (spoiler alert)