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The Engagement

The Engagement( )
Author: Simenon, Georges
Translator: Moschovakis, Anna
Afterword by: Gray, John
Series title:New York Review Books Classics
ISBN:978-1-59017-228-5
Publication Date:Mar 2007
Publisher:New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Imprint:NYRB Classics
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $12.95
Book Description:

One of the most chilling and compassionate of Simenon's extraordinary psychological novels, The Engagement explores the mystery of a blameless heart in a compromised soul.

Book Details
Pages:160
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / City Life
Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General
Fiction / Psychological
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.265 x 7.917 x 0.39 Inches
Book Weight:0.33 Pounds
Author Biography
Simenon, Georges (Author)
The prolific Belgian-born writer Georges Simenon produced hundreds of fictional works under his own name and 17 pseudonyms, in addition to more than 70 books about Inspector Maigret, long "the favorite sleuth of highbrow detective-story readers" (SR). More than 50 "Simenons" have been made into films. In addition to his mystery stories, he wrote what he called "hard" books, the serious psychological novels numbering well over 100. The autobiographical Pedigree, set in his native town of Liege, is perhaps his finest work. The publication of Simenon's intimate memoirs also attracted considerable attention. Simenon himself once said that he would never write a "great novel." Yet Gide called him "a great novelist, perhaps the greatest and truest novelist we have in French literature today," and Thornton Wilder (see Vol. 1) found that Simenon's narrative gift extends "to the tips of his fingers." The following are some of Simenon's novels, exclusive of the Maigret detective stories, that are in print.

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