The man who watched the trains go by

Author(s)

• Simenon, Georges
• Brookner, Anita
• Gilbert, Stuart
• Watson, David

Bibliographic Information

The man who watched the trains go by

Georges Simenon ; introduction by Anita Brookner ; translated by Stuart Gilbert ; with revisions by David Watson

（Penguin modern classics）

Penguin Books, c2004

Other Title

L'homme qui regardait passer les trains

Note

Translated from the French

Originally published 1938

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Hardworking Dutch family man Kees Popinga loses his money when the shipping firm he works for collapses. Something snaps and from the shell of a modern citizen emerges a calculating paranoiac, capable of random acts of violence - even murder.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA71909484
• ISBN:
  • 0141187670
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: fre
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 219 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 843.912
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Mentally ill
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00548998