The man who watched the trains go by

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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

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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.

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  • 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
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