Georges Simenon

Broschiertes Buch

The Man Who Watched the Trains Go by

Beschreibung

"First published in French as L'homme qui regardait passer les trains by Gallimard 1938"--Title page verso.

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

• Penguin Modern Classics
• Verlag: Penguin Books UK / Penguin Classics
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 429523
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 196g
• ISBN-13: 9780241258552
• ISBN-10: 0241258553
• Artikelnr.: 44699911

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Fierce, bleak and compellingly written . . . with pitiless landscapes of hopeless longing, random cruelty and galloping fate warmed only by the twilit lyricism of doomed desire. These are novels of eye-opening, spine-tingling control and intensity. Boyd Tonkin The Independent