Albert Camus was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. His works include The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall and The Rebel.
The Stranger, also published in English as The Outsider, is a 1942 novella written by French author Albert Camus. The first of Camus's novels published in his lifetime, the story follows Meursault, an indifferent settler in French Algeria, who, weeks after his mother's funeral, kills an unnamed Arab man in Algiers. The story is divided into two parts, presenting Meursault's first-person narrative before and after the killing.
Jules Maigret, or simply Maigret, is a fictional French police detective, a commissaire ("commissioner") of the Paris Brigade Criminelle, created by writer Georges Simenon. The character's full name is Jules Amédée François Maigret.
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon was a Belgian writer, most famous for his fictional detective Jules Maigret. One of the most popular authors of the 20th century, he published around 400 novels, 21 volumes of memoirs and many short stories, selling over 500 million copies.
The First Man is Albert Camus' unfinished final novel.
Hamish Hamilton Limited was a British book publishing house, founded in 1931 eponymously by the half-Scot half-American Jamie Hamilton. Jamie Hamilton was often referred to as Hamish Hamilton.
Arthur Stuart Ahluwalia Stronge Gilbert was an English literary scholar and translator. Among his translations into English are works by Alexis de Tocqueville, Édouard Dujardin, André Malraux, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Georges Simenon, Jean Cocteau, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre. He also assisted in the translation of James Joyce's Ulysses into French.
Maigret at the Crossroads is a detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon. Published in 1931, it is one of the earliest novels to feature Inspector Maigret in the role of the chief police investigator, a character that has since become one of the best-known detectives in fiction.
Marsilly is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France.
Maigret and the Headless Corpse is a detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon.
Maigret in Exile is a 1940 detective novel by the Belgian mystery writer Georges Simenon.
Maigret and the Hotel Majestic is a 1942 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his character Jules Maigret.
Maigret on the Defensive is a 1964 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his character Jules Maigret. The novel was first published in English in 1966 by Hamish Hamilton Ltd., translated by Alastair Hamilton. In 2019, this novel was reissued in English by Penguin under the title Maigret Defends Himself (ISBN 9780241304068), newly translated by Howard Curtis.
Maigret's First Case is a 1948 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon, featuring his character Jules Maigret. The book covers Maigret's involvement on his first case in 1913, shortly before the First World War began. It was translated into English, by Robert Brain, in 1958.
Les Inconnus dans la maison is a novel by Belgian author Georges Simenon. It was first published in 1940 by Gallimard in Paris.
Maigret and Monsieur Charles is a detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon, and is the last novel featuring his long-running character Jules Maigret.
Maigret and the Dosser is a detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his character Jules Maigret.
Pedigree is an autobiographical novel by the Belgian author Georges Simenon, first published in 1948. Simenon described the work as "a book in which everything is true but nothing is accurate." It presents a fictionalised account of the author's childhood in Liège, Belgium, from the start of the twentieth century to the end of World War I.
Maigret, Lognon and the Gangsters is a 1951 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon, featuring the Paris police officer Jules Maigret. Simenon wrote it while living in Lakeville, Connecticut where he had moved after leaving France following the Liberation.
Maigret's Memoirs is a novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon. Unlike other Maigret novels, there is no plot; Jules Maigret himself writes about his life and work, and about his relation with the novelist Georges Simenon.
