The Cellars Of The Majestic

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698409213
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cellars of the Majestic written by Georges Simenon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 176 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 An Inspector Maigret mystery that brings the dark side of glamorous expat life in Paris to life In this riveting mystery from Georges Simenon, Maigret must investigate the murder of Mrs. Clark, the wife of a wealthy American industrialist, whose strangled body is found in the basement of an upscale hotel near the Champs-Élysées. Maigret’s inquiries take him from the endless corridors of the Hotel Majestic to the countryside of the Bois de Boulogne and sun-drenched Cannes, into a world of illicit sex work, drug addiction, and blackmail.

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780143038450
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hotel Majestic written by Georges Simenon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the corpse of a guest in a Paris luxury hotel is discovered by the breakfast cook in the basement, Maigret searches for the culprit among the hotel's employees and patrons, an investigation that leads him into a dark and dangerous world of drug addiction, blackmail, and prostitution. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maigret and the Hotel Majestic written by Georges Simenon and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maigret is called to the Hotel Majestic, a Paris luxury hotel, to investigate a body. The corpse of a guest was discovered by the breakfast cook in the basement. The body is that of the wife of a wealthy American - but to Maigret's surprise there is a gun in her purse. Maigret searches for the culprit among the hotel's employees and patrons. He follows up the handful of clues that could explain her demise.

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780860091424
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maigret and the Hotel Majestic written by Georges Simenon and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anne Nelson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501105345
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suzanne's Children written by Anne Nelson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the untold stories of the Holocaust—the nail-biting drama of Suzanne Spaak, who risked and gave her life to save hundreds of Jewish children from deportation from Nazi Paris to Auschwitz “vividly dramatizes the stakes of acting morally in a time of brutality” (The Wall Street Journal). Suzanne Spaak was born into the Belgian Catholic elite and married into the country’s leading political family. Her brother-in-law was the Foreign Minister and her husband Claude was a playwright and patron of the painter Renée Magritte. In Paris in the late 1930s her friendship with a Polish Jewish refugee led her to her life’s purpose. When France fell and the Nazis occupied Paris, she joined the Resistance. She used her fortune and social status to enlist allies among wealthy Parisians and church groups. Then, under the eyes of the Gestapo, Suzanne and women from the Jewish and Christian resistance groups “kidnapped” hundreds of Jewish children to save them from the gas chambers. Suzanne’s Children is the “dogged…page-turning account” (Kirkus Reviews) of this incredible story of courage in the face of evil. “Anne Nelson is superb at showing the upheavals in Europe since WWI through vivid, illuminating details…and she also masterfully describes the incremental changes in the Jews’ plight under the Occupation” (Booklist). It was during the final year of the Occupation when Suzanne was caught in the Gestapo dragnet that was pursuing a Soviet agent she had aided. She was executed shortly before the liberation of Paris. Suzanne Spaak is honored in Israel as one of the Righteous Among Nations. Nelson’s “heartfelt story is almost a model for how popular history should be written; it will satisfy lovers of history, Jewish history in particular” (Library Journal).

Author : Henry Eliot
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241441617
Total Pages : 2282 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Modern Classics Book written by Henry Eliot and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 2282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world For six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompassing works by modernist pioneers, avant-garde iconoclasts, radical visionaries and timeless storytellers. This reader's companion showcases every title published in the series so far, with more than 1,800 books and 600 authors, from Achebe and Adonis to Zamyatin and Zweig. It is the essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world, and the companion volume to The Penguin Classics Book. Bursting with lively descriptions, surprising reading lists, key literary movements and over two thousand cover images, The Penguin Modern Classics Book is an invitation to dive in and explore the greatest literature of the last hundred years.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.4E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chambers's Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Murielle Wenger
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476669775
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maigret's World written by Murielle Wenger and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georges Simenon's 75 novels and 28 short stories that feature Chief Inspector Jules Maigret provide us with a great deal of information about the French police detective--but only in small, episodic doses. As readers become acquainted with Maigret one detail at a time, he slowly takes on a flesh-and-bone realism--not merely a character in a story, but someone we would like to meet in real life. This book presents all the canonical facts and details about the detective and his world in one place, presented with tabulations and analyses that enable a better understanding of the works and of Maigret himself.

Author : Russell Campbell
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476689997
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Investigating Simenon written by Russell Campbell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly a century, the work of Belgian crime writer and psychological novelist Georges Simenon, creator of Chief Inspector Maigret, has captivated readers worldwide. This investigation situates Simenon's work in its historical context and interprets it as a reaction to shifting gender relations in Western society. Simenon's compelling narratives capture the anxieties of men whose patriarchal position was under threat in an era of insurgent feminist movements. These concerns are also evident in Simenon's pervasive preoccupation with sexuality, as well as his political stance that stems from his petit-bourgeois upbringing. This groundbreaking study includes interwoven commentary on all 191 novels Simenon published under his own name, including several that have never been translated into English, as well as a number of short stories and several pseudonymous works.