- Social conditions, Boys, Fiction, City and town life
Spanning the years from the beginning of the century, with its anarchist threats, to the end of the First World War in 1918, "Pedigree "is the story of a boy growing into a young man and making his way in a city of gaslights, trams, rain, squalor, and secret delight.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and contemplative.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Georges Simenon
- First published
- 1948
- Pages
- 543
- Publisher
- Presses de la Cité, New York Review Books, Presses de la Cite
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- French, German, English
- ISBN
- 9781299573574
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Georges Joseph Christian Simenon était un écrivain belge. Auteur prolifique, il a publié près de 200 romans et de nombreuses nouvelles. Il est surtout connu pour avoir créé le roman policier Maigret. ---------- Georges Joseph Christian Simenon was a Belgian writer. A prolific author who published nearly 200 novels and numerous short works, Simenon is best known for the creation of the fictional detective Maigret.<sup>[1][1]</sup> [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Simenon
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