The Two Penny Bar

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698183045
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Two-Penny Bar written by Georges Simenon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 160 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 forgotten crime comes to light in the heart of Parisian summer in this twisted Inspector Maigret tale “A radiant late afternoon. The sunshine almost as thick as syrup in the quiet streets of the Left Bank . . . there are days like this, when ordinary life seems heightened, when the people walking down the street, the trams and cars all seem to exist in a fairy tale.” A story told by a condemned man leads Maigret to a bar by the Seine and into the sleazy underside of respectable Parisian life. In the oppressive heat of summer, a forgotten crime comes to light.

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014197673X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Night at the Crossroads written by Georges Simenon and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A MAJOR ITV DRAMA A new translation of Georges Simenon's sensational tale of deceit and back-stabbing in an isolated community, book six in the new Penguin Maigret series. 'She came forward, the outlines of her figure blurred in the half-light. She came forward like a film star, or rather like the ideal woman in an adolescent's dream. 'I gather you wish to talk to me, Inspector . . . but first of all please sit down . . .' Her accent was more pronounced than Carl's. Her voice sang, dropping on the last syllable of the longer words.' Maigret has been interrogating Carl Andersen for seventeen hours without a confession. He's either innocent or a very good liar. So why was the body of a diamond merchant found at his isolated mansion? Why is his sister always shut away in her room? And why does everyone at Three Widows Crossroads have something to hide? Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in previous translations as Maigret at the Crossroads and The Crossroad Murders. 'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray '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 'A supreme writer . . . unforgettable vividness' Independent

Author : William Cobbett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cobbetts' Two-penny Trash; Or, Politics for the Poor ... written by William Cobbett and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kevin C. Kearns
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0717195600
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Our Day written by Kevin C. Kearns and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over fifty years, historian Kevin C. Kearns trekked the rough-and-tumble streets of the heart of Dublin, hoping to record and preserve the city's vanishing oral history. Armed only with a Sony tape recorder, the ordinary people he encountered – street traders, dockers, factory workers, tram drivers, midwives, mothers, grandparents, publicans, jarveys – shared private stories of hardship, joy, sorrow, survival and triumph – with humour and whimsy. In Our Day is the culmination of a life's work – a treasure trove bursting with whispers from the past – 450 vignettes, memories and recollections gathered to present an evocative, poignant portrait of a forgotten Dublin. 'Those of us who know and love Dublin owe Kearns a huge debt.' Roddy Doyle 'Without Kevin, the lives of ordinary decent Dubliners would be forgotten. This book is a celebration of them.' Joe Duffy

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cobbett's Two-penny Trash written by and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Albert Memmi
Publisher : Plunkett Lake Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pillar of Salt written by Albert Memmi and published by Plunkett Lake Press. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When The Pillar of Salt was first published in 1953, it caused a scandal in Tunis. Acclaimed sociologist Albert Memmi, the son of poor Jewish parents who lived at the edge of the equally poor Jewish and Muslim quarters, wrote candidly about the life of Tunisia’s small Jewish community and the failings of the tiny local bourgeoisie, “which thought itself opulent but was only ridiculous.” Memmi was no less critical of his Muslim fellow citizens or of the various European colonialists in his vicinity. “The Pillar of Salt reads like a general indictment,” Memmi writes in a new introduction to this 2013 eBook edition. This is an unusual man’s coming of age story and a document about a community that has now all but disappeared. “The grave torment of the truly homeless is the theme of Albert Memmi's mature, thoughtful book... His father an Italian Jew, his mother a Berber, Benillouche struggles on the tattered fringe of the Tunisian ghetto for the very air he breathes... Beneath this account of privation, there is a more deeply harrowing realization on the part of the protagonist that he belongs nowhere.” — New York Times “In the Celine-Sartre-Camus tradition of the contemporary French novel of despair, this autobiographical narrative has maturity, stylistic grace, and purpose... A thoughtful, perceptive work.” — Library Journal “Alexandre Mordekhai Benillouche, Memmi’s young hero and narrator, is a Jewish native of French-colonized Tunisia ... Memmi’s ... semiautobiographical novel powerfully distinguishes itself through its unblinking examination of the contradictions that thwart even Alexandre’s most altruistic ambitions. After volunteering to work in a labor camp during World War II, Alexandre discovers that the class and ethnic distinctions haunting him continued within the camp. Ultimately, only exile and fiction writing — ‘mastering ... life by recreating it’ — can avert despair.” — Publishers Weekly “Told with clarity of vision, a passionate sense of justice, and a warm heart.” — New York Herald Tribune

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bee-keepers' Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698183037
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dancer at the Gai-Moulin written by Georges Simenon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason.” —John Le Carré The city of Simenon's youth comes to life in this disturbing Inspector Maigret mystery set in Liège “In the darkness, the main room is as vast as a cathedral. A great empty space. Some warmth is still seeps from the radiators. Delfosse strikes a match. They stop a moment to catch their breath, and work out how far they have still to go. And suddenly the match falls to the ground, as Delfosse gives a sharp cry and rushes back towards the washroom door. In the dark, he loses his way, returns and bumps into Chabot.” Inspector Maigret observes from a distance as two boys are accused of killing a rich foreigner in Liège. Their loyalty, which binds them together through their adventures, is put to the test, and seemingly irrelevant social differences threaten their friendship and their freedom.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Electricity and Engineering written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Journal of Philately written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: