Collection: Young Adult Fiction (Academy Use Only)

The author takes her New Orleans heroine, Edna Pontellier, through the successive stages of a compelling but ultimately tragic search for personal freedom.

The Big Sleep, Chandler’s first novel, introduces Philip Marlowe, a private detective inhabiting the seamy side of Los Angeles in the 1930s, as he takes on a case involving a paralysed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail and murder. In Farewell, My Lovely, Marlowe deals wi...