simenon georges the hanged man of saint pholien
Simenon Georges The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien
A first ink drawing showed a hanged man swinging from a gallows on which perched an enormous crow. And there were at least twenty other etchings and pen or pencil sketches that had the same leitmotif of hanging. On the edge of a forest: a man hanging from every branch. A church steeple: beneath the weathercock, a human body dangling from each arm of the cross. . . Below another sketch were written four lines from Francois Villon's Ballade of the Hanged Men. On a trip to Brussels, Maigret unwittingly causes a man's suicide, but his own remorse is overshadowed by the discovery of the sordid events that drove the desperate man to shoot himself. This novel has been published in previous translations as Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets and The Crime of Inspector Maigret.
2346 Руб.Simenon Georges Le Pendu de Saint-Pholien
Personne ne s’apercut de ce qui se passait. Personne ne se douta que c’etait un drame qui se jouait dans la salle d’attente de la petite gare ou six voyageurs seulement attendaient, l’air morne, dans une odeur de cafe, de biere et de limonade. Il etait cinq heures de l’apres-midi et la nuit tombait. Les lampes avaient ete allumees mais, a travers les vitres, on distinguait encore dans la grisaille du quai les fonctionnaires allemands et hollandais, de la douane et du chemin de fer, qui battaient la semelle. Car la gare de Neuschanz est plantee a l’extreme nord de la Hollande, sur la frontiere allemande. Une gare sans importance. Neuschanz est a peine un village. Aucune grande ligne ne passe par la. Il n’y a guere de trains que le matin et le soir, pour les ouvriers allemands qui, attires par les gros salaires, travaillent dans les usines des Pays-Bas. Et la meme ceremonie se reproduit chaque fois. Le train allemand s’arrete a un bout du quai. Le train hollandais attend a l’autre bout.
1863 Руб.Simenon Georges The Saint-Fiacre Affair
Maigret savoured the sensations of his youth again: the cold, stinging eyes, frozen fingertips, an aftertaste of coffee. Then, stepping inside the church, a blast of heat, soft light; the smell of candles and incense. The last time Maigret went home to the village of his birth was for his father's funeral. Now an anonymous note predicting a crime during All Souls' Day mass draws him back there, where troubling memories resurface and hidden vices are revealed. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret Goes Home.
2346 Руб.Simenon Georges The Man from London
On a foggy winter's evening in Dieppe, after the arrival of the daily ferry from England, a railway signalman habitually scrutinizes the port from his tiny, isolated cabin. When a scuffle on the quayside catches his eye, he is drawn to the scene of a brutal murder and his once quiet life changes forever. A mere observer at first, he soon finds himself fishing a briefcase from the water and in doing so he enters a feverish and secret chase. As the murderer and witness stalk and spy on each other, they gain an increasingly profound yet tacit understanding of each other until the witness becomes an accomplice. Written in 1933, soon after the successful launch of the Inspector Maigret novels, this haunting, atmospheric novel soon became a classic and the inspiration for several film and TV adaptations.
2346 Руб.Simenon Georges Tout Maigret. Tome 1
Une edition anniversaire: 10 volumes de "Tout Maigret" avec des couvertures originales creees par Loustal. Pierre Assouline signe une preface inedite pour le tome 1. Maigret, ce sont 75 romans et 28 nouvelles publies entre 1931 et 1972. Ce tome 1 regroupe les huit premiers Maigret parus en 1931. Il est preface par Pierre Assouline, biographe de Simenon, qui lui a notamment consacre un Autodictionnaire Simenon, un documentaire, et vient d'adapter plusieurs romans de Simenon pour le theatre radiophonique. Pietr-le-Letton Le Charretier de "La Providence" Monsieur Gallet, decede Le Pendu de Saint-Pholien La Tete d'un homme Le Chien jaune La Nuit du carrefour Un crime en Hollande Notes de Michel Carly
7918 Руб.Simenon Georges The Madman of Bergerac
He recalled his travelling companion's agitated sleep - was it really sleep? - his sighs, and his sobbing. Then the two dangling legs, the patent-leather shoes and hand-knitted socks . . . An insipid face. Glazed eyes. And Maigret was not surprised to see a grey beard eating into his cheeks. A distressed passenger leaps off a night train and vanishes into the woods. Maigret, on his way to a well-earned break in the Dordogne, is soon plunged into the pursuit of a madman, hiding amongst the seemingly respectable citizens of Bergerac.
2344 Руб.Simenon Georges The Little Man from Archangel
'She was beautiful, full of vitality, and he was sixteen years older, a dusty, lonely bookseller whose only passion in life was collecting stamps.' Jonas is used to his young wife disappearing. Everyone in the town knows that she goes off with other men. This time, however, he tells a small lie to protect her, saying she is visiting a school friend. It is a lie, however, that eats into him like an illness, provoking hostility and resentment of this timid little Russian-Jewish bookseller, who always thought he had been accepted. As suspicion mounts, his true, terrifying isolation is revealed.
2344 Руб.Simenon Georges The Cellars of the Majestic
'Try to imagine a guest, a wealthy woman, staying at the Majestic with her husband, her son, a nurse and a governess . . . In a suite that costs more than a thousand francs a day . . . At six in the morning, she's strangled, not in her room, but in the basement locker room' 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. This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret and the Hotel Majestic.
2311 Руб.Simenon Georges Maigret and the Headless Corpse
A man's dismembered body is found in a canal, and only Maigret can uncover the killer When a man's headless body is discovered in Paris's Saint-Martin Canal, Maigret is quick to answer the call. It is in this very neighborhood that he meets a strangely taciturn woman who runs a cafe. Her husband is away on a trip-or so she says. As is often the case, Maigret soon learns that there is more to the story than meets the eye. As shocking as it is incisive, Maigret and the Headless Corpse is a compelling mystery from Georges Simenon.
2311 Руб.Simenon Georges Le Petit Saint
Il avait entre quatre et cinq ans lorsque le monde commenca a vivre autour de lui, lorsqu’il prit conscience d’une vraie scene se jouant entre des etres humains qu’il etait capable de distinguer les uns des autres, de situer dans l’espace, dans un decor determine. Il n’aurait pas pu preciser, plus tard, si c’etait en ete ou en hiver, bien qu’il eut deja le sens des saisons. Probablement en automne, car une legere buee ternissait la fenetre sans rideau et la lumiere du bec de gaz d’en face, seule a eclairer la chambre, jaunatre, semblait humide. Avait-il dormi ? Son corps etait chaud sous la couverture. Aucun bruit particulier ne l’avait eveille en sursaut. Il avait seulement entendu, derriere le rideau, qui n’etait qu’un vieux drap de lit suspendu a une tringle, un haletement familier, entrecoupe de gemissements, avec parfois le grincement des ressorts du lit. C’etait sa mere qui couchait dans ce lit, presque toujours avec quelqu’un. Puis, du meme cote que lui du drap tenant lieu de cloison, il y avait Vladimir, ensuite Alice, ensuite les jumeaux, lui-meme, chacun sur sa paillasse, et, contre le mur, le bebe dans son lit-cage.
1674 Руб.Simenon Georges Maigret and the Man on the Bench
'He was wearing a dark suit, a beige raincoat and on his feet, which were twisted at an odd angle, he wore yellow-brown shoes, which seemed out of keeping with a day as colourless as this. Apart from his shoes he looked so ordinary that he would have passed completely unnoticed on the street or on one of the numerous cafe terraces on the boulevard.'
2311 Руб.Simenon Georges The Carter of 'La Providence'
What was the woman doing here? In a stable, wearing pearl earrings, her stylish bracelet and white buckskin shoes! She must have been alive when she got there because the crime had been committed after ten in the evening. But how? And why? And no one had heard a thing! She had not screamed. The two carters had not woken up. Inspector Maigret is standing in the pouring rain by a canal. A well-dressed woman, Mary Lampson, has been found strangled in a stable nearby. Why did her glamorous, hedonistic life come to such a brutal end here? Surely her taciturn husband Sir Walter knows - or maybe the answers lie with the crew of the barge La Providence. This novel has been published in previous translations as Lock 14 and Maigret Meets a Milord.
2346 Руб.Simenon Georges Maigret's Dead Man
Maigret plunges into the murky Parisian underworld in book twenty-nine of the new Penguin Maigret series. 'That shoeless foot looked incongruous lying on the pavement next to another foot encased in a shoe made of black kid leather. It was naked, private . . . It was Maigret who retrieved the other shoe which lay by the kerb six or seven metres away' A series of strange phone calls leads Inspector Maigret through the Paris streets towards a man out of his depth amid a network of merciless criminals. This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret's Special Murder.
2314 Руб.Simenon Georges The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By
A brilliant new translation of one of Simenon's best loved masterpieces. 'A certain furtive, almost shameful emotion ... disturbed him whenever he saw a train go by, a night train especially, its blinds drawn down on the mystery of its passengers' Kees Popinga is a respectable Dutch citizen and family man. Then he discovers that his boss has bankrupted the shipping firm he works for - and something snaps. Kees used to watch the trains go by to exciting destinations. Now, on some dark impulse, he boards one at random, and begins a new life of recklessness and violence. This chilling portrayal of a man who breaks from society and goes on the run asks who we are, and what we are capable of.
2567 Руб.Simenon Georges The Pitards
Captain Lannec has finally managed to buy his own ship with the financial help of his in-laws, the Pitards - and they've never let him forget it. When his temperamental wife Mathilde insists on coming along on the ship's first voyage, Lannec becomes increasingly unnerved by her presence, especially when he receives an anonymous note saying he won't make it back to port. As they hit a storm in the Atlantic, jealousy, spite, snobbery and suspicion are churned up in the boat's stiflingly close quarters... First published in 1935, The Pitards was one of the first novels Simenon wrote when he shelved his famous Maigret series in order to strike out in a new direction and make a name for himself as a literary writer. This gripping evocation of life at sea revolves around class and the tense unravelling of relationships, powerful themes that Simenon would return to throughout his writing career.
2346 Руб.Simenon Georges The Hand
A new translation of George Simenon's taut, devastating psychological novel set in American suburbia. The inspiration for the new play by award-winning playwright David Hare. 'I had begun, God knows why, tearing a corner off of everyday truth, begun seeing myself in another kind of mirror, and now the whole of the old, more or less comfortable truth was falling to pieces' Confident and successful, New York advertising executive Ray Sanders takes what he wants from life. When he goes missing in a snow storm in Connecticut one evening, his closest friend begins to reassess his loyalties, gambling Ray's fate and his own future.
2311 Руб.Il avait entre quatre et cinq ans lorsque le monde commenca a vivre autour de lui, lorsqu’il prit conscience d’une vraie scene se jouant entre des etres humains qu’il etait capable de distinguer les uns des autres, de situer dans l’espace, dans un decor determine. Il n’aurait pas pu preciser, plus tard, si c’etait en ete ou en hiver, bien qu’il eut deja le sens des saisons. Probablement en automne, car une legere buee ternissait la fenetre sans rideau et la lumiere du bec de gaz d’en face, seule a eclairer la chambre, jaunatre, semblait humide. Avait-il dormi ? Son corps etait chaud sous la couverture. Aucun bruit particulier ne l’avait eveille en sursaut. Il avait seulement entendu, derriere le rideau, qui n’etait qu’un vieux drap de lit suspendu a une tringle, un haletement familier, entrecoupe de gemissements, avec parfois le grincement des ressorts du lit. C’etait sa mere qui couchait dans ce lit, presque toujours avec quelqu’un. Puis, du meme cote que lui du drap tenant lieu de cloison, il y avait Vladimir, ensuite Alice, ensuite les jumeaux, lui-meme, chacun sur sa paillasse, et, contre le mur, le bebe dans son lit-cage.
