A Man's Head: Inspector Maigret - Softcover

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Georges Simenon (Author)
Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1903. An intrepid traveller with a profound interest in people, Simenon strove on and off the page to understand, rather than to judge, the human condition in all its shades. His novels include the Inspector Maigret series and a richly varied body of wider work united by its evocative power, its economy of means, and its penetrating psychological insight. He is among the most widely read writers in the global canon. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.

David Coward (Translator)
David Coward is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Leeds and has translated many books from French for Penguin Classics.

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Georges Simenon

A MAN S HEAD

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First published in French as La tête d un homme by Fayard 1931
This translation first published in Penguin Books 2014

Copyright 1931 by Georges Simenon Limited
Translation copyright © David Coward, 2014
GEORGES SIMENON ® Simenon.tm
MAIGRET ® Georges Simenon Limited

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Front cover design by Alceu Chiesorin Nunes

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ISBN: 978-0-698-18301-8

Title Page

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About the Author

1. Cell 11, High Surveillance

2. The Sleeping Man

3. The Torn Newspaper

4. General Headquarters

5. The Man Who Liked Caviar

6. The Inn at Nandy

7. Little Man

8. A Man in the House

9. The Next Day

10. A Cupboard with a Surprise

11. Four Aces

12. The Fall

EXTRA: Chapter 1 from The Dancer at the Gai-Moulin

Georges Simenon was born on 12 February 1903 in Liège, Belgium, and died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life. Between 1931 and 1972 he published seventy-five novels and twenty-eight short storiesfeaturing Inspector Maigret.

Simenon always resisted identifying himself with his famous literary character, but acknowledged that they shared an important characteristic:

My motto, to the extent that I have one, has been noted often enough, and I ve always conformed to it. It s the one I ve given to old Maigret, who resembles me in certain points understand and judgenot .

Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels.

PENGUIN CLASSICS

I love reading Simenon. He makes me think of Chekhov

William Faulkner

A truly wonderful writer marvellously readable lucid, simple, absolutely in tune with the world he creates

Muriel Spark

Few writers have ever conveyed with such a sure touch, the bleakness of human life

A. N. Wilson

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 novelist who entered his fictional world as if he were part of it

Peter Ackroyd

The greatest of all, the most genuine novelist we have had in literature

André Gide

Superb The most addictive of writers A unique te