Monsieur Monde Vanishes (18 page)

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La Fuite de Monsieur Monde
© 1952 by Georges Simenon Limited, a Chorion company; translation by Jean Stewart entitled
Monsieur Monde 
Vanishes
© 1967 by Georges Simenon Limited, a Chorion company

Introduction copyright © 2004 by Larry McMurtry

All rights reserved.

Cover image: Still from Playtime, directed by Jacques Tati, 1967; © Les Films de Mon Oncle

Cover design: Katy Homans

The Library of Congress has cataloged the earlier printing as follows:

Simenon, Georges, 1903–

[Fuite de Monsieur Monde. English]

Monsieur Monde vanishes / Georges Simenon ; translated by Jean Stewart ;

introduction by Larry McMurtry.

   p. cm. — (New York Review Books classics)

ISBN 1-59017-096-2 (pbk. : alk. paper)

I. Stewart, Jean Margaret, 1903- II. Title. III. Series.

PQ2637.I53F813 2004

843'.912—dc22

2004010494

eISBN 978-1-59017-562-0
v1.0

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