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But on May 10, 1940, as Nazi tanks approach, this timid, happy man must abandon his home and confront the “Fate” that he has secretly awaited. Separated from his pregnant wife and young daughter in the chaos of flight, he joins a freight car of refugees hurtling southward ahead of the pursuing invaders.
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Jul 12, 2011 · The Train (Neversink) Kindle Edition. by Georges Simenon (Author), Robert Baldick (Translator) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.2 236 ratings. See all formats and editions. Against all expectations Marcel Féron has made a “normal” life in a bucolic French suburb in the Ardennes.
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Jul 19, 2011 · One of the twentieth century’s most prolific writers and several times a candidate for the Nobel Prize, GEORGES SIMENON (1903–1989) published more than two hundred novels, seventy-five of them featuring his celebrated detective, Commissaire Maigret.
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May 23, 2023 · The Train by Georges Simenon. Publication date 1967-01-01 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Collection printdisabled; internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet Archive Language
As the mystery of Anna’s identity is gradually revealed, Marcel leaps from the heights of an exhilarating freedom to the depths of a terrifying responsibility—one that will lead him to a blood-chilling choice.When it first appeared in English in 1964, British novelist and critic Brigid Brophy declared The Train to be “the novel his ...
Description. Against all expectations Marcel Féron has made a “normal” life in a bucolic French suburb in the Ardennes. But on May 10, 1940, as Nazi tanks approach, this timid, happy man must abandon his home and confront the “Fate” that he has secretly awaited.
Simenon explores gigantic issues of love, loyalty, human purpose and marriage in this tale about a man who becomes separated from his pregnant wife and daughter as they seek to escape the German invasion of northern France in World War II.
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