Maigret Simenon And France

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141985925
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maigret in Court written by Georges Simenon and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Bill Alder
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476601062
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maigret, Simenon and France written by Bill Alder and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georges Simenon (1903-1989) was a phenomenally successful author of crime fiction. His 75 Maigret novels and 28 Maigret short stories were published between 1931 and 1972 to great international acclaim (he is the only non-anglophone crime writer to have achieved such renown). His Maigret stories are regarded by many as having established a new direction in crime fiction, emphasizing social and psychological portraiture rather than focussing on a puzzle to be solved or on "action." This book examines the importance of social class and social change in the Maigret stories, giving a particular emphasis to the early formative novels and the development of plot, characterization and setting. The author seeks to establish the extent to which Simenon's portrait of French society is historically accurate and the nature of the influence of the author's own class position and ideology on his fiction.

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 9780156028509
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maigret and the Madwoman written by Georges Simenon and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 1979 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Georges Simenon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maigret and the Headless Corpse written by Georges Simenon and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frederick Franck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Simenon's Paris written by Frederick Franck and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Harvest Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maigret and the Calame Report written by Georges Simenon and published by Harvest Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Inspector must enter the unsavory world of politics to help a conscientious politician. Maigret is secretly summoned by a distraught cabinet minister who needs help in recovering a document - the Calame report, an engineering study that warned that a government-funded children's sanitarium was of unstable design. The study was hushed up, the report stolen, and the disaster made reality - with 128 children killed in the building's collapse. Now Maigret must plumb the depths of government corruption to find the thief and the report - and let the compromised government fall where it may.

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9781590171936
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Lights written by Georges Simenon and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780727806666
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maigret and the Concarneau Murders written by Georges Simenon and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0241240174
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maigret's Memoirs written by Georges Simenon and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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 A fictional autobiography of Maigret, Georges Simenon’s brilliant detective In this make-believe memoir, Maigret recounts a meeting with the author himself. The account starts with the arrival of Georges Sim, as he is called here, at the Paris Police Judiciaire to soak up atmosphere for his crime novels by dogging the footsteps of Inspector Maigret. The detective is irritated by the audacious young writer who names a character after him and argues that he oversimplifies, in his fiction, the intricate duties of the police investigating a case. Here, Maigret “sets the record straight,” telling readers how he’s different from the invention, and about his courtship and marriage to his beloved Louise. Ingeniously amusing and tender, Maigret’s Memoirs is a look inside the mind of the brilliant Maigret like never before.

Author : Patrick Marnham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140139273
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man who Wasn't Maigret written by Patrick Marnham and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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