The Misty Harbour
Title | The Misty Harbour PDF eBook |
Author | Georges Simenon |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 2015-02-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0141394803 |
A new translation of Georges Simenon's gripping tale of lost identity. Book sixteen in the new Penguin Maigret series. A man picked up for wandering in obvious distress among the cars and buses on the Grands Boulevards. Questioned in French, he remains mute . . . A madman? In Maigret's office, he is searched. His suit is new, his underwear is new, his shoes are new. All identifying labels have been removed. No identification papers. No wallet. Five crisp thousand-franc bills have been slipped into one of his pockets. A distressed man is found wandering the streets of Paris, with no memory of who he is or how he got there. The answers lead Maigret to a small harbour town, whose quiet citizens conceal a poisonous malice. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in a previous translation as Death of a Harbour Master. '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
The Misty Harbour
Title | The Misty Harbour PDF eBook |
Author | Georges Simenon |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 177 |
Release | 2015-08-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0698194179 |
“A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason.” —John Le Carré An Inspector Maigret mystery and a gripping tale of lost identity “A man picked up for wandering in obvious distress among the cars and buses on the Grands Boulevards. Questioned in French, he remains mute . . . A madman? In Maigret's office, he is searched. His suit is new, his underwear is new, his shoes are new. All identifying labels have been removed. No identification papers. No wallet. Five crisp thousand-franc bills have been slipped into one of his pockets.” A distressed man is found wandering the streets of Paris, with no memory of who he is or how he got there. The answers lead Maigret to a small harbour town, whose quiet citizens conceal a poisonous malice.
House of Commons Debates, Official Report
Title | House of Commons Debates, Official Report PDF eBook |
Author | Canada. Parliament. House of Commons |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1786 |
Release | 1894 |
Genre | Canada |
ISBN |
Official Report of Debates, House of Commons
Title | Official Report of Debates, House of Commons PDF eBook |
Author | Canada. Parliament. House of Commons |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1092 |
Release | 1916 |
Genre | Canada |
ISBN |
Official Report of the Debates of the House of Commons
Title | Official Report of the Debates of the House of Commons PDF eBook |
Author | Canada. Parliament. House of Commons |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1094 |
Release | 1916 |
Genre | Canada |
ISBN |
Official Reports of the Debates of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada
Title | Official Reports of the Debates of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada PDF eBook |
Author | Canada. Parliament. House of Commons |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1752 |
Release | 1894 |
Genre | Canada |
ISBN |
Artful Flight
Title | Artful Flight PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Glickman |
Publisher | The Porcupine's Quill |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2022-02-21 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0889844410 |
Susan Glickman muses that thoughtful literary criticism is not merely about ‘duelling with words, however full of flourishes and feints’. Rather it ‘means—or ought to mean—to evaluate something dispassionately, seeing not only its faults but its virtues.’ In Artful Flight, she does just that, writing respectfully but uncompromisingly about artistic topics both ostensibly familiar (such as considerations of writers like Northrop Frye, Don Coles, Erín Moure and Bronwen Wallace) and delightfully arcane (such as the etymological evolution of contranyms in Shakespeare and beyond). With keen intelligence and droll wit, Glickman explores a variety of artistic concerns, from the expectations of literary genre, the formalist hurdles of poetry and the tyranny of modern opinion to the magical history of the violin and the pleasure of creating visual art later in life. Her approach is unabashedly her own: feminist, supportive and drawing on a wide range of cultural and literary references. These well-reasoned essays prove that balanced criticism can be compelling, nuanced and sensitive to the motives and influences of artists.