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Maigret's Memoirs
''Maigret's Memoirs'' is a novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon. Unlike other Maigret novels, there is no plot; Jules Maigret himself writes about his life and work, and about his relation with the novelist Georges Simenon. It was written from 19 to 26 September 1950 in Lakeville, Connecticut USA. Simenon had recently remarried and had invited his new mother-in-law to stay for a while. In his autobiography ''Intimate Memoirs'' (published in the UK and USA in 1984) he wrote that in the circumstances he could not write a demanding novel: "I was looking for an easy subject... and that was when I got the idea of writing ''Maigret’s Memoirs''. To me, it was something like writing a letter to a friend, and therefore entertaining". The original French version, ''Les Mémoires de Maigret'', appeared in 1951, and it was first published in Great Britain in 1963. It was included, with '' Maigret and the Headless Corpse'' and '' Maigret and the Saturday Caller'', in ''Maigret Victori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Simenon
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (; 13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer. He published nearly 500 novels and numerous short works, and was the creator of the fictional detective Jules Maigret. Early life and education Simenon was born at 26 (now number 24) to Désiré Simenon and his wife Henriette Brüll. Désiré Simenon worked in an accounting office at an insurance company and had married Henriette in April 1902. Although Simenon was born on Friday 13 February 1903, superstition resulted in his birth being registered as having been on the 12th. This story of his birth is recounted at the beginning of his novel '' Pedigree''. The Simenon family traces its origins back to Belgian Limburg. Simenon could trace his line back to peasants living in the area since as early as 1580. His mother had origins from Limburg, the Netherlands and Germany while his father was of Walloon origin.Becker, Lucille Frackman. "Georges Simenon (1903-1989)." In: Amoia, Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inspector Jules Maigret
Jules Maigret (), or simply Maigret, is a fictional French police detective, a '' commissaire'' ("commissioner") of the Paris ''Brigade Criminelle'' ('' Direction Régionale de la Police Judiciaire de Paris:36, Quai des Orfèvres''), created by writer Georges Simenon. The character's full name is Jules Amédée François Maigret. Between 1931 and 1972, 75 novels and 28 short stories about Maigret were published, starting with ''Pietr-le-Letton'' ("Peter the Lett") and concluding with ''Maigret et Monsieur Charles'' ("Maigret and Monsieur Charles"). The Maigret stories have also received numerous film, television and radio adaptations. Penguin Books published new translations of 75 books in the series over as many months; the project was begun in November 2013 by translators David Bellos, Anthea Bell, and Ros Schwartz. Character Creation The character of Maigret was invented by Simenon while drinking in a cafe and imagining a Parisian policeman: "a large powerfully built gentl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Maigret
Jules Maigret (), or simply Maigret, is a fictional French police detective, a '' commissaire'' ("commissioner") of the Paris ''Brigade Criminelle'' ('' Direction Régionale de la Police Judiciaire de Paris:36, Quai des Orfèvres''), created by writer Georges Simenon. The character's full name is Jules Amédée François Maigret. Between 1931 and 1972, 75 novels and 28 short stories about Maigret were published, starting with ''Pietr-le-Letton'' ("Peter the Lett") and concluding with ''Maigret et Monsieur Charles'' ("Maigret and Monsieur Charles"). The Maigret stories have also received numerous film, television and radio adaptations. Penguin Books published new translations of 75 books in the series over as many months; the project was begun in November 2013 by translators David Bellos, Anthea Bell, and Ros Schwartz. Character Creation The character of Maigret was invented by Simenon while drinking in a cafe and imagining a Parisian policeman: "a large powerfully built gent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lakeville, Connecticut
Lakeville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States, close to Dutchess County, New York. It is within the town of Salisbury, but has its own ZIP Code (06039). As of the 2010 census, the population of Lakeville was 928, out of 3,741 in the entire town of Salisbury. The Hotchkiss School is located in Lakeville, and the Indian Mountain School is nearby. Geography Lakeville is in the southwest part of the town of Salisbury, on U.S. Route 44 southwest of the Salisbury town center. US 44 leads northeast to Canaan village and west to Millerton, New York. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Lakeville CDP has a total area of , of which are land and , or 14.8%, are water. Most of the water area is part of Lake Wononscopomuc, the deepest natural lake in the state. History Until 1846, Lakeville was called "Furnace Village", due to the location there of one of the early blast furnaces of the historic Salisbury iron industry (one of which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maigret And The Headless Corpse
''Maigret and the Headless Corpse'' (French: ''Maigret et le corps sans tête'') is a detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon. Overview When a man's arm is fished out of the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris, Maigret and his colleagues are puzzled. A woman's arm they would understand as the work of a psychopath or a man's body as a gang related killing, but they are even more puzzled when the rest of the man, minus his head, is dug out of the Canal. Maigret's attention turns to Madame Calas, a strange woman running a bistro along with her husband near the canal. The husband is away in the country, Madame Calas willingly sleeps with anyone who asks (Maigret does not test this theory) and the judge soon arrests her, her lover (the main one), and a young delivery boy (also a lover). But Maigret is not satisfied and pushes further and uncovers a story, and a motivation for murder, that is far stranger than anything he has ever seen before. Originally written in French in 1955, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maigret And The Saturday Caller
''Maigret and the Saturday Caller'' is a novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon. The original French version ''Maigret et le Client du samedi'' appeared in 1962.Carter, David. ''The Pocket Essential Georges Simenon''. The Pocket Essentials, 2003. A man visits Inspector Jules Maigret at his home to tell him he wants to kill his wife and her lover. Although it is not an official case, Maigret is interested, particularly when the man later disappears. Summary Maigret's expected Saturday evening in January, of a meal and watching his recently installed television, is suspended when Léonard Planchon, a nervous man with a hare lip, visits him. He has often called at Police Headquarters on a Saturday and left before seeing Maigret; this time he has followed Maigret home. He tells him he wants to murder his wife and her lover. Maigret has not been sought out at home before and is interested in Planchon. In a long conversation, Planchon, who has a decorating business, tells Maigr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pocket Essentials
{{italic title ''The Pocket Essentials'' is a series of small, A6 sized books on various subjects. The publisher is also known as Pocket Essentials. Each book is written by a different author. The books have been credited with being full of rare information, though there are no pictures. Books in the series Film directors * Woody Allen * Jane Campion * Jackie Chan * Sergio Leone * Billy Wilder * Quentin Tarantino Film genres * Blaxploitation Films * Horror Films * Slasher Movies * Vampire Films * Carry On Films Film subjects * Laurel and Hardy * Steve McQueen * Marilyn Monroe * Filming on a Microbudget * Film Studios Music * The Madchester Scene * How to Succeed in the Music Business * Jethro Tull Literature * Cyberpunk * Agatha Christie * Terry Pratchett * William Shakespeare * Philip K. Dick * Sherlock Holmes * Hitchhiker's Guide * Creative Writing * The Beat Generation * Noir Fiction * ''The Adventures of Tintin'' * Alan Moore Ideas * Conspiracy theories * Feminism * Nie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First-person Narrative
A first-person narrative is a mode of storytelling in which a storyteller recounts events from their own point of view using the first person It may be narrated by a first-person protagonist (or other focal character), first-person re-teller, first-person witness, or first-person peripheral. A classic example of a first-person protagonist narrator is Charlotte Brontë's ''Jane Eyre'' (1847), in which the title character is also the narrator telling her own story, "I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me". This device allows the audience to see the narrator's mind's eye view of the fictional universe, but it is limited to the narrator's experiences and awareness of the true state of affairs. In some stories, first-person narrators may relay dialogue with other characters or refer to information they heard from the other characters, in order to try to deliver a larger point of view. Other stories may switch the narrator to different cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Gross
Hans Gustav Adolf Gross or Groß (26 December 1847 – 9 December 1915) was an Austrian criminal jurist and criminologist, the "Founding Father" of criminal profiling. A criminal jurist, Gross made a mark as the creator of the field of criminality. Throughout his life, Hans Gross made significant contributions to the realm of scientific criminology. As Gross developed in his career as an examining justice, he noticed the failings of the field of law. His book, classes, institutions, and methods helped improve the justice system through his experience as a justice. Early life and career Gross was born on December 26, 1847, in Styria, Austria. As a young adult, Hans Gross graduated in 1870 as a jurist (Examining Justice) from his hometown's university in Upper Styria. His education resulted in two decades of learned knowledge in law. Gross served as the Examining Justice of Styria in which he served as a judge and prosecutor for all crimes presented to him. During his se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hanged Man Of Saint-Pholien
''The Crime of Inspector Maigret'' (other English-language titles are ''Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets'' and ''The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien'') is a novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon. The original French-language version ''Le Pendu de Saint-Pholien'' appeared in 1931: it is one of the earliest novels by Simenon featuring the detective Jules Maigret. In the story, Maigret follows to Bremen, Germany, a man who is behaving oddly and then commits suicide; his investigation leads him to a group of men, now having various careers, who knew each other when they were students in Liège, Belgium. Publication history The first English translation, by Anthony Abbot, entitled ''The Crime of Inspector Maigret'', appeared in 1932, published by Covici, Friede in New York. In 1963 a translation by Tony White, ''Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets'', was published by Penguin Books, . A translation by Linda Coverdale, ''The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien'', appeared in 2014, published by Pen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gare Du Nord
The Gare du Nord (; English: ''station of the North'' or ''Northern Station''), officially Paris-Nord, is one of the six large mainline railway station termini in Paris, France. The station accommodates the trains that run between the capital and northern France via the Paris–Lille railway, as well as to international destinations in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Located in the northern part of Paris near the Gare de l'Est in the 10th arrondissement, the Gare du Nord offers connections with several urban transport lines, including Paris Métro, RER and buses. The majority of its passengers have been commuters travelling between the northern suburbs of Paris and outlying towns. It is the busiest railway station in Europe by total passenger numbers; in 2015, the Gare du Nord saw more than 700,000 passengers per day. The current Gare du Nord was designed by French architect Jacques Ignace Hittorff, while the original complex was constructed betwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
