Georges Simenon

Broschiertes Buch

The Cellars of the Majestic

Inspector Maigret

Übersetzung: Curtis, Howard

Beschreibung

Below stairs at a glamorous hotel on the Champs-Elysees, the workers lives are worlds away from the luxury enjoyed by the wealthy guests. When their worlds meet, Maigret discovers a tragic story of ambition, blackmail and unrequited love.

Autor

Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium in 1903. An intrepid traveller with a profound interest in people, Simenon strove on and off the page to understand, rather than to judge, the human condition in all its shades. His novels include the Inspector Maigret series and a richly varied body of wider work united by its evocative power, its economy of means, and its penetrating psychological insight. He is among the most widely read writers in the global canon. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.

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Produktdetails

• Inspector Maigret
• Verlag: Penguin Books UK / Penguin Classics
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 845997
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 131mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 141g
• ISBN-13: 9780241188446
• ISBN-10: 024118844X
• Artikelnr.: 42376463

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One of the greatest writers of the 20th century . . . no other writer can set up a scene as sharply and with such economy as Simenon does . . . the conjuring of a world, a place, a time, a set of characters - above all, an atmosphere John Banville Financial Times