Author: Georges Simenon
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780156551366
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Inspector Jules Maigret has fallen into disfavor with his Paris superiors and has been shunted to a district supervisor's job on the northern French coast. Depressed and bored, Maigret regains a sense of purpose when a corpse is discovered in the house of a retired judge.
Maigret in Exile
Author: Georges Simenon
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780156551366
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Inspector Jules Maigret has fallen into disfavor with his Paris superiors and has been shunted to a district supervisor's job on the northern French coast. Depressed and bored, Maigret regains a sense of purpose when a corpse is discovered in the house of a retired judge.
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780156551366
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Inspector Jules Maigret has fallen into disfavor with his Paris superiors and has been shunted to a district supervisor's job on the northern French coast. Depressed and bored, Maigret regains a sense of purpose when a corpse is discovered in the house of a retired judge.
Maigret in Exile
Author: Georges Simenon
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
The Inspector has fallen into disfavor with his Paris superiors and has been shunted to a district supervisor's job on the northern French coast. Here, among mussel-gatherers and lobstermen, Maigret suffers depression and boredom. He is an outsider. Even the local police inspector is dull and predictable, as everything in the coastal villages appears to be. But the discovery of a corpse in the house of a retired judge returns a sense of purpose to Maigret. The Boston Globe called this "one of Simenon's best Maigrets . . . replete with his customary irony and deft characterization".
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
The Inspector has fallen into disfavor with his Paris superiors and has been shunted to a district supervisor's job on the northern French coast. Here, among mussel-gatherers and lobstermen, Maigret suffers depression and boredom. He is an outsider. Even the local police inspector is dull and predictable, as everything in the coastal villages appears to be. But the discovery of a corpse in the house of a retired judge returns a sense of purpose to Maigret. The Boston Globe called this "one of Simenon's best Maigrets . . . replete with his customary irony and deft characterization".
Maigret and the Madwoman
Author: Georges Simenon
Publisher: Harvest Books
ISBN: 9780156551229
Category : Maigret, Jules (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Maigret is a registered trademark of the Estate of Georges Simenon.
Publisher: Harvest Books
ISBN: 9780156551229
Category : Maigret, Jules (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Maigret is a registered trademark of the Estate of Georges Simenon.
Maigret's Pipe
Author: Georges Simenon
Publisher: Harvest Books
ISBN: 9780156551465
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Seventeen stories feature Simenon's dauntless detective as he works on some baffling cases both from his base--Paris police headquarters on the Quai des Ortevres--and throughout the provinces.
Publisher: Harvest Books
ISBN: 9780156551465
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Seventeen stories feature Simenon's dauntless detective as he works on some baffling cases both from his base--Paris police headquarters on the Quai des Ortevres--and throughout the provinces.
Inspector Maigret Omnibus 2
Author: Georges Simenon
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141982322
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves An omnibus edition containing four titles featuring Inspector Maigret: The Saint-Fiacre Affair (where Maigret goes back to the place of his birth), The Misty Harbour (where Maigret is left tied up on a rainy quayside all night), Maigret (where Maigret comes back from retirement) and The Judge's House (where Maigret is exiled to a mussel farming community). Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels. '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
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141982322
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves An omnibus edition containing four titles featuring Inspector Maigret: The Saint-Fiacre Affair (where Maigret goes back to the place of his birth), The Misty Harbour (where Maigret is left tied up on a rainy quayside all night), Maigret (where Maigret comes back from retirement) and The Judge's House (where Maigret is exiled to a mussel farming community). Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels. '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
Edward Said's Concept of Exile
Author: Rehnuma Sazzad
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786722607
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Edward Said was an exiled individual – the 'out of place' Palestinian in the USA. He saw the consequences of the 1948 dismantling of Palestine and the establishment of Israel through his parents' experiences and through the collective statelessness imposed on the Palestinians. His own personal experience of exile intensified when he moved to the USA. Yet despite the significance of exile to Said's lifeand work, no scholarship has yet focused on this theme in his writings or traced its ongoing applicability and importance. Rehnuma Sazzad fulfils this pressing need in literary and cultural research by providing the first comprehensive definition of Said's theory of exile and reveals its legacy in relation to five Middle Eastern intellectuals: Naguib Mahfouz, Mahmoud Darwish, Leila Ahmed, Nawal El Saadawi and Youssef Chahine. By selecting a novelist, poet, feminist, filmmaker and essayist, Sazzad shows how, for Said, the ideal intellectual is a metaphorical exile, demonstrating a willing homelessness. This book creates a portrait of redoubtable intellectual practice and in the twenty-first-century context, when the frontiers of belonging are being constantly redrawn, Edward Said's Concept of Exile adds new depths to discourses of resistance, home and identity.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786722607
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Edward Said was an exiled individual – the 'out of place' Palestinian in the USA. He saw the consequences of the 1948 dismantling of Palestine and the establishment of Israel through his parents' experiences and through the collective statelessness imposed on the Palestinians. His own personal experience of exile intensified when he moved to the USA. Yet despite the significance of exile to Said's lifeand work, no scholarship has yet focused on this theme in his writings or traced its ongoing applicability and importance. Rehnuma Sazzad fulfils this pressing need in literary and cultural research by providing the first comprehensive definition of Said's theory of exile and reveals its legacy in relation to five Middle Eastern intellectuals: Naguib Mahfouz, Mahmoud Darwish, Leila Ahmed, Nawal El Saadawi and Youssef Chahine. By selecting a novelist, poet, feminist, filmmaker and essayist, Sazzad shows how, for Said, the ideal intellectual is a metaphorical exile, demonstrating a willing homelessness. This book creates a portrait of redoubtable intellectual practice and in the twenty-first-century context, when the frontiers of belonging are being constantly redrawn, Edward Said's Concept of Exile adds new depths to discourses of resistance, home and identity.
Maigret's World
Author: Murielle Wenger
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476669775
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
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.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476669775
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
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.
The Snack Thief
Author: Andrea Camilleri
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440623341
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
“The novels of Andrea Camilleri breathe out the sense of place, the sense of humor, and the sense of despair that fills the air of Sicily.” —Donna Leon When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an Italian fishing trawler is machine-gunned by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily's coast, only Montalbano, with his keen insight into human nature, suspects the link between the two incidents. His investigation leads to the beautiful Karima, an impoverished housecleaner and sometime prostitute, whose young son steals other schoolchildren's midmorning snacks. But Karima disappears, and the young snack thief's life—as well as Montalbano's—is endangered, the Inspector exposes a viper's next of government corruption and international intrigue.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440623341
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
“The novels of Andrea Camilleri breathe out the sense of place, the sense of humor, and the sense of despair that fills the air of Sicily.” —Donna Leon When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an Italian fishing trawler is machine-gunned by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily's coast, only Montalbano, with his keen insight into human nature, suspects the link between the two incidents. His investigation leads to the beautiful Karima, an impoverished housecleaner and sometime prostitute, whose young son steals other schoolchildren's midmorning snacks. But Karima disappears, and the young snack thief's life—as well as Montalbano's—is endangered, the Inspector exposes a viper's next of government corruption and international intrigue.
Simenon
Author: Pierre Assouline
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
A biography of Georges Simenon, a prolific writer whose 400 novels, including his Inspector Maigret series were translated into 50 languages. The book traces his evolution from humble beginnings as an altar boy in Belgium, to notoriety as a literary prodigy with an outsize appetite for fame, wealth and women. cm.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
A biography of Georges Simenon, a prolific writer whose 400 novels, including his Inspector Maigret series were translated into 50 languages. The book traces his evolution from humble beginnings as an altar boy in Belgium, to notoriety as a literary prodigy with an outsize appetite for fame, wealth and women. cm.
Maigret Hesitates
Author: Georges Simenon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maigret, Jules (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Maigret one day receives an anonymous letter written on extravagantly splendid stationery. Without giving further details, it states that a murder will be committed shortly and pleads for Maigret's help. Maigret, though used to letters from cranks that lead nowhere, is shaken. He has no trouble tracing the stationery to the house where it came from -- the sumptuous Paris establishment of an eminently successful expert in Maritime Law, who is surrounded by family, various office help, and household staff.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maigret, Jules (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Maigret one day receives an anonymous letter written on extravagantly splendid stationery. Without giving further details, it states that a murder will be committed shortly and pleads for Maigret's help. Maigret, though used to letters from cranks that lead nowhere, is shaken. He has no trouble tracing the stationery to the house where it came from -- the sumptuous Paris establishment of an eminently successful expert in Maritime Law, who is surrounded by family, various office help, and household staff.