Georges Simenon

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590175545

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Act of Passion by Georges Simenon Pdf

For forty years Charles Alavoine has sleepwalked through his life. Growing up as a good boy in the grip of a domineering mother, he trains as a doctor, marries, opens a medical practice in a quiet country town, and settles into an existence of impeccable bourgeois conformity. And yet at unguarded moments this model family man is haunted by a sense of emptiness and futility. Then, one night, laden with Christmas presents, he meets Martine. It is time for the sleeper to awake.

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780241213148

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When I Was Old by Georges Simenon Pdf

'For personal reasons, or for reasons I don't know myself, I began feeling old, and I began keeping notebooks. I was nearing the age of sixty' Georges Simenon's autobiographical notebooks, in which he recorded his observations, experiences, anxieties and 'all the silly ideas that pass through my head', are one of the most candid self-portraits of a writer ever put to paper. Here, as the celebrated author ruthlessly examines his tortuous writing methods, his past, his fame, his intimate relationships and his fears of ageing, the result is an unsparing, often painfully revealing insight into a man trying both to find and to escape himself. 'As revealed in these notebooks, Simenon's is a shrewd, lucid mind ... the balance tips toward the real, the immediate, the mysteries of human complexity above all ... Utterly unpretentious' The New York Times

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590175637

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The Widow by Georges Simenon Pdf

The Widow is the story of two outcasts and their fatal encounter. One is the widow herself, Tati. Still young, she’s never had an easy time of it, but she’s not the kind to complain. Tati lives with her father-in-law on the family farm, putting up with his sexual attentions, working her fingers to the bone, improving the property and knowing all the time that her late husband’s sister is scheming to kick her out and take the house back. The other is a killer. Just out of prison and in search of a new life, Jean meets up with Tati, who hires him as a handyman and then takes him to bed. Things are looking up, at least until Jean falls hard for the girl next door. The Widow was published in the same year as Camus’ The Stranger, and André Gide judged it the superior book. It is Georges Simenon’s most powerful and disturbing exploration of the bond between death and desire.

Author : Patrick Marnham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Novelists, Belgian
ISBN : 0140139273

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The Man who Wasn't Maigret by Patrick Marnham Pdf

'Penetrating, fully researched and very well written. It describes this extraordinarily productive literary genius at all stages of his life and adds to an understanding not only of Simenon's art, but the art of the novel itself.' - Muriel Spark in Scotland on Sunday

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141985923

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Maigret in Court by Georges Simenon Pdf

Maigret receives an anonymous phone call concerning the brutal murder of a woman and young child. The tip off concerns the woman's nephew, a mild-mannered man by the name of Gaston Meurant. At Meurant's trial Maigret is called to testify where he admits to continuing the investigation unofficially as he remains doubtful of the man's guilt. Maigret reveals that he had both Meurant and his wife followed and during the trial he exposes some shocking truths about Meurant's private life that may prove his innocence. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. 'His artistry is supreme' John Banville 'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories' Guardian

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101201909

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My Friend Maigret by Georges Simenon Pdf

Three vintage Maigret novels by legendary mystery author Georges Simenon One of the world 's most successful crime writers, Georges Simenon has thrilled mystery lovers since 1931 with his matchless creation Inspector Maigret. In My Friend Maigret, Inspector Maigret investigates the murder of a small- time crook on a Mediterranean island. Told in Simenon's spare, unsentimental prose, Inspector Cadaver is a haunting exploration of provincial hypocrisy and snobbery, in which Maigret encounters a rival sleuth from his past. In Maigret and the Man on the Boulevard, Simenon's tenacious detective pieces together the life of a man who for three years lived a secret life-until he is found stabbed to death in an alleyway.

Author : Frederick Franck,Georges Simenon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Paris (France)
ISBN : UCSD:31822006969125

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Simenon's Paris by Frederick Franck,Georges Simenon Pdf

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524705435

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The Snow Was Dirty by Georges Simenon Pdf

“One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories.” —The Guardian In this brilliant new translation of Georges Simenon’s classic novel, a young man descends into a brutal world of crime “And always the dirty snow, the heaps of snow that look rotten, with black patches and embedded garbage . . . unable to cover the filth.” Nineteen-year-old Frank—thug, thief, son of a brothel owner—gets by surprisingly well despite living in a city under military occupation, but a warm house and a full stomach are not enough to make him feel truly alive in such a climate of deceit and betrayal. During a bleak, unending winter, he embarks on a string of violent and sordid crimes that set him on a path from which he can never return. Georges Simenon’s matchless novel is a brutal, compelling portrayal of a world without pity; a devastating journey through a psychological no man’s land.

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1590171934

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Red Lights by Georges Simenon Pdf

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Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241258552

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The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By by Georges Simenon Pdf

“One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories.” —The Guardian In this Georges Simenon classic, a Dutch clerk flees to Paris with his crooked boss’s money and meets the woman behind the man “A certain furtive, almost shameful emotion . . . disturbed him whenever he saw a train go by, a night train especially, its blinds drawn down on the mystery of its passengers.” Kees Popinga is a respectable Dutch citizen and family man—until the day he discovers his boss has bankrupted the shipping firm he works for, and something snaps. Kees used to watch the trains go by on their way to exciting destinations. Now, on some dark impulse, he boards one at random, and begins a new life of recklessness and violence. The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By is a chilling portrayal of a man who breaks from society and goes on the run asks who we are, and what we are capable of.

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : French fiction
ISBN : UCSC:32106011414130

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Maigret in Vichy by Georges Simenon Pdf

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Maigret, Jules (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 0156028506

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Maigret and the Madwoman by Georges Simenon Pdf

"Simenon created one of the great moral detectives . . .a master of the slow unfolding of the criminal mind."-JOHN MORT I M E R Someone is moving a kind old woman's furniture while she is away, but by the time Maigret investigates, she is dead. A kind, elderly lady-meticulously groomed and showing no signs of derangement-appeals to Inspector Maigret, frightened because someone has been moving furniture in her apartment. Nothing, however, has been stolen, and Maigret's subordinates at Police Headquarters shrug her off as "Maigret's madwoman." Touched by the imploring look in her eyes, Maigret promises to investigate-but someone gets there ahead of him. "Simenon is . . . in a class by himself."-T H E N E W YO R K E R G eorges Simenon (1903-1989) was born in Liege, Belgium. He published his first novel at seventeen and went on to write more than two hundred novels, becoming one of the world's most prolific and bestselling authors. His books have sold more than 500 million copies and have been translated into fifty languages. Maigret is a registered trademark of the Estate of Georges Simenon

Author : Fenton S. Bresler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0825301459

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The Mystery of Georges Simenon by Fenton S. Bresler Pdf

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-16
Category : Maigret, Jules (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 0156028379

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Maigret and the Man on the Bench by Georges Simenon Pdf

Mondays are nobody's favorite day, but when Maigret's week begins with a corpse found stabbed to death in a Parisian alley, the Inspector immediately sees a flaw. Murders are rarely committed on Mondays. That clue, along with the victim's strange recent behavior, leads Maigret to the cause of this nasty crime-and reveals the tale of a deadly marriage. Maigret is a registered trademark of the Estate of Georges Simenon.

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015008892708

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Intimate Memoirs by Georges Simenon Pdf