Books by Graham Greene
Born: 10/02/1904; Died: 04/03/1991Graham Greene Biography & Notes
Henry Graham Greene, OM (October 2, 1904- April 3, 1991) was a prolific English novelist, playwright, short story writer and critic whose works explore the ambiguities of modern man and ambivalent moral or political issues in a contemporary setting. Although Greene objected strongly to being described as a mere "Catholic novelist", his religion informs most of his novels, and many of his best works (e.g. Brighton Rock, The Heart of the Matter and The Power and the Glory) are explicitly Roman Catholic in content and preoccupations.
Greene was born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, the fourth of six children- his younger brother Hugh was later to become the Director-General of the BBC, and older brother Raymond was an eminent doctor and mountaineer. Their parents, Charles Henry Greene and Marion nee Raymond, were first cousins and members of a large and influential family which included the owners of the Greene King brewery, and various bankers and businessmen. Charles Greene was "second master" at Berkhamsted School, where the headmaster was Dr Thomas Fry (who was married to another cousin of Charles).
In 1910, Charles Greene succeeded Dr Fry as headmaster of the school, and Graham attended the school as a pupil. Bullied and profoundly unhappy as a boarder, Greene made several attempts at suicide (some of them purportedly by playing Russian roulette- though Michael Shelden's biography of Greene persuasively discredits the truth of these incidents), and in 1921 at the age of seventeen he underwent six months of psychoanalysis in London to deal with depression. After this he returned to the school as a day boy, living with his family. Schoolfriends included Claud Cockburn and Peter Quennell.
He went to Balliol College, Oxford, and his first work (a volume of poetry) was published in 1925, while he was an undergraduate, but it was not widely praised.
Early career
After graduation, Greene took up a career in journalism, firstly in Nottingham (a city which recurs in his novels as an epitome of mean provincial life), and then as a subeditor on The Times. While in Nottingham he started a correspondence with Vivien Dayrell-Browning, a Roman Catholic who had written to correct him on a point of Catholic doctrine. Greene converted to the faith in 1926, and the couple were married the following year. They had two children, Lucy (born 1933) and Francis (born 1936). In 1948 Greene left Vivien for Catherine Walston, but they remained married.
Novels and other works
Greene's first published novel was The Man Within in 1929, and its reception emboldened him to give up his job at The Times and work full-time as a novelist. However, the following two books were not successful (Greene disowned them in later life), and his first real success was Stamboul Train in 1932- as with several of his subsequent books, this was also adapted as a film (Orient Express, 1934).
His income from novels was supplemented by freelance journalism, including book and film reviews for The Spectator, and co-editing the magazine Night and Day, which closed down in 1937 shortly after Greene's review of the film Wee Willie Winkie, starring a nine-year-old Shirley Temple, caused the magazine to lose a libel case. Greene's review claimed that Temple displayed "a certain adroit coquetry which appealed to middle-aged men", and is now seen as one of the first criticisms of the sexualisation of young children by the entertainment industry.
His fiction was originally divided into two genres: thrillers or mystery/suspense books, such as Brighton Rock, that he himself cast as "entertainments" but which often included a notable philosophical edge, and literary works such as The Power and the Glory, on which his reputation was thought to be based.
As his career lengthened, however, Greene and his readers both found the "entertainments" to be of nearly as high a value as the literary efforts, and Greene's later efforts such as The Human Factor, The Comedians, Our Man in Havana and The Quiet American combine these modes into works of remarkable insight and compression.
Writing style
Greene's novels are written in a contemporary, realistic style, often featuring characters troubled by self-doubt and living in seedy or rootless circumstances. The doubts were often of a religious nature, echoing the author's ambiguous attitude to Catholicism (by the end of his life he seems to have lost his faith, but still considered himself a Catholic).
Unlike other "Catholic writers" such as Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Burgess, Greene's politics were essentially left-leaning, though some biographers believe politics mattered little to him. In his later years he was a strong critic of what he saw as American imperialism, and he supported the Cuban leader Fidel Castro, whom he had met.
Travel
Throughout his life, Greene was obsessed with travelling far from his native England, to what he called the "wild and remote" places of the world. His travels provided him with opportunities to engage in espionage on behalf of the United Kingdom (in Sierra Leone during the Second World War, for example). Greene had been recruited to MI6 by the notorious double agent Kim Philby. He reworked the colorful and exciting characters and places he encountered into the fabric of his novels. A 1938 trip to Mexico to see the effects of a campaign of forced anti-Catholic secularisation was funded by the Roman Catholic Church. This resulted in the factual The Lawless Roads (published in America as Another Mexico), and the fictional The Power and the Glory, often considered to be Greene's finest novel. Ironically, the novel was condemned by the Vatican in 1953.
"There is so much weariness and disappointment in travel that people have to open up- in railway trains, over a fire, on the decks of steamers, and in the palm courts of hotels on a rainy day. They have to pass the time somehow, and they can pass it only with themselves. Like the characters in Chekhov they have no reserves – you learn the most intimate secrets. You get an impression of a world peopled by eccentrics, of odd professions, almost incredible stupidities, and, to balance them, amazing endurances."
- Graham Greene, The Lawless Roads (1939)
Many of his books have been filmed, most notably 1947's Brighton Rock, and he also wrote several original screenplays, most famously for the film The Third Man.
Trivia
Greene greatly enjoyed parody. In 1949, when the New Statesman publication held a contest for parodies of Greene's distinctive writing style, he submitted an entry under a pseudonym and won second prize. The resulting work, The Stranger's Hand, was later finished by another writer and brought to the screen by Italian film director, Mario Soldati. In 1965, Greene entered a similar New Statesman parody contest, again under a pseudonym, and won an honorable mention.
Final years
Greene moved to Antibes in 1966, to be close to Yvonne Cloetta, whom he had known for several years, and this relationship endured until his death. In the last years of his life, Greene lived in the small resort city of Vevey, on Lake Geneva in Switzerland. In 1981 he was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, given to writers concerned with 'the freedom of the individual in society'. One of his final works, J'Accuse-The Dark Side of Nice, (1982), concerns a legal matter that he and his family were embroiled in while he lived in Nice. This led to a libel case in France, which he lost. On his death in 1991 at the age of 86, he was interred in the nearby cemetery in Corsier-sur-Vevey.
October 2004 saw the publication of the third and final volume of The Life of Graham Greene by Norman Sherry, Greene's official biographer. The writing of this biography created a story in itself in that Sherry followed in Greene's footsteps, even coming down with diseases that Greene had come down with in the same place. Sherry's work reveals that Greene continued to submit reports to British intelligence until the end of his life. This has led scholars and Greene's reading public to entertain the provocative question, "Was Greene a novelist who was also a spy, or was his lifelong literary career the perfect cover?"
Greene was born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, the fourth of six children- his younger brother Hugh was later to become the Director-General of the BBC, and older brother Raymond was an eminent doctor and mountaineer. Their parents, Charles Henry Greene and Marion nee Raymond, were first cousins and members of a large and influential family which included the owners of the Greene King brewery, and various bankers and businessmen. Charles Greene was "second master" at Berkhamsted School, where the headmaster was Dr Thomas Fry (who was married to another cousin of Charles).
In 1910, Charles Greene succeeded Dr Fry as headmaster of the school, and Graham attended the school as a pupil. Bullied and profoundly unhappy as a boarder, Greene made several attempts at suicide (some of them purportedly by playing Russian roulette- though Michael Shelden's biography of Greene persuasively discredits the truth of these incidents), and in 1921 at the age of seventeen he underwent six months of psychoanalysis in London to deal with depression. After this he returned to the school as a day boy, living with his family. Schoolfriends included Claud Cockburn and Peter Quennell.
He went to Balliol College, Oxford, and his first work (a volume of poetry) was published in 1925, while he was an undergraduate, but it was not widely praised.
Early career
After graduation, Greene took up a career in journalism, firstly in Nottingham (a city which recurs in his novels as an epitome of mean provincial life), and then as a subeditor on The Times. While in Nottingham he started a correspondence with Vivien Dayrell-Browning, a Roman Catholic who had written to correct him on a point of Catholic doctrine. Greene converted to the faith in 1926, and the couple were married the following year. They had two children, Lucy (born 1933) and Francis (born 1936). In 1948 Greene left Vivien for Catherine Walston, but they remained married.
Novels and other works
Greene's first published novel was The Man Within in 1929, and its reception emboldened him to give up his job at The Times and work full-time as a novelist. However, the following two books were not successful (Greene disowned them in later life), and his first real success was Stamboul Train in 1932- as with several of his subsequent books, this was also adapted as a film (Orient Express, 1934).
His income from novels was supplemented by freelance journalism, including book and film reviews for The Spectator, and co-editing the magazine Night and Day, which closed down in 1937 shortly after Greene's review of the film Wee Willie Winkie, starring a nine-year-old Shirley Temple, caused the magazine to lose a libel case. Greene's review claimed that Temple displayed "a certain adroit coquetry which appealed to middle-aged men", and is now seen as one of the first criticisms of the sexualisation of young children by the entertainment industry.
His fiction was originally divided into two genres: thrillers or mystery/suspense books, such as Brighton Rock, that he himself cast as "entertainments" but which often included a notable philosophical edge, and literary works such as The Power and the Glory, on which his reputation was thought to be based.
As his career lengthened, however, Greene and his readers both found the "entertainments" to be of nearly as high a value as the literary efforts, and Greene's later efforts such as The Human Factor, The Comedians, Our Man in Havana and The Quiet American combine these modes into works of remarkable insight and compression.
Writing style
Greene's novels are written in a contemporary, realistic style, often featuring characters troubled by self-doubt and living in seedy or rootless circumstances. The doubts were often of a religious nature, echoing the author's ambiguous attitude to Catholicism (by the end of his life he seems to have lost his faith, but still considered himself a Catholic).
Unlike other "Catholic writers" such as Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Burgess, Greene's politics were essentially left-leaning, though some biographers believe politics mattered little to him. In his later years he was a strong critic of what he saw as American imperialism, and he supported the Cuban leader Fidel Castro, whom he had met.
Travel
Throughout his life, Greene was obsessed with travelling far from his native England, to what he called the "wild and remote" places of the world. His travels provided him with opportunities to engage in espionage on behalf of the United Kingdom (in Sierra Leone during the Second World War, for example). Greene had been recruited to MI6 by the notorious double agent Kim Philby. He reworked the colorful and exciting characters and places he encountered into the fabric of his novels. A 1938 trip to Mexico to see the effects of a campaign of forced anti-Catholic secularisation was funded by the Roman Catholic Church. This resulted in the factual The Lawless Roads (published in America as Another Mexico), and the fictional The Power and the Glory, often considered to be Greene's finest novel. Ironically, the novel was condemned by the Vatican in 1953.
"There is so much weariness and disappointment in travel that people have to open up- in railway trains, over a fire, on the decks of steamers, and in the palm courts of hotels on a rainy day. They have to pass the time somehow, and they can pass it only with themselves. Like the characters in Chekhov they have no reserves – you learn the most intimate secrets. You get an impression of a world peopled by eccentrics, of odd professions, almost incredible stupidities, and, to balance them, amazing endurances."
- Graham Greene, The Lawless Roads (1939)
Many of his books have been filmed, most notably 1947's Brighton Rock, and he also wrote several original screenplays, most famously for the film The Third Man.
Trivia
Greene greatly enjoyed parody. In 1949, when the New Statesman publication held a contest for parodies of Greene's distinctive writing style, he submitted an entry under a pseudonym and won second prize. The resulting work, The Stranger's Hand, was later finished by another writer and brought to the screen by Italian film director, Mario Soldati. In 1965, Greene entered a similar New Statesman parody contest, again under a pseudonym, and won an honorable mention.
Final years
Greene moved to Antibes in 1966, to be close to Yvonne Cloetta, whom he had known for several years, and this relationship endured until his death. In the last years of his life, Greene lived in the small resort city of Vevey, on Lake Geneva in Switzerland. In 1981 he was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, given to writers concerned with 'the freedom of the individual in society'. One of his final works, J'Accuse-The Dark Side of Nice, (1982), concerns a legal matter that he and his family were embroiled in while he lived in Nice. This led to a libel case in France, which he lost. On his death in 1991 at the age of 86, he was interred in the nearby cemetery in Corsier-sur-Vevey.
October 2004 saw the publication of the third and final volume of The Life of Graham Greene by Norman Sherry, Greene's official biographer. The writing of this biography created a story in itself in that Sherry followed in Greene's footsteps, even coming down with diseases that Greene had come down with in the same place. Sherry's work reveals that Greene continued to submit reports to British intelligence until the end of his life. This has led scholars and Greene's reading public to entertain the provocative question, "Was Greene a novelist who was also a spy, or was his lifelong literary career the perfect cover?"
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21 Stories by Graham Greene ( 1990) |
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El Americano Impasible by Graham Greene ( 1983)
Set in Vietnam in the 1950s, during the last days of French colonial rule, THE QUIET AMERICAN was based partly on Graham Greene's own experiences in Vietnam as a correspondent for the London Times. The book's narrator is an English journalist named Fowler who lives in Saigon with his Vietnamese mistress, Phuong, but is unable to convince his Catholic wife to grant him a divorce. Fowler meets Pyle, a young American intelligence agent who talks of setting up a "third force" to oppose both the colonial powers and the Communist rebels. Fowler's growing conviction that Pyle is orchestrating a campaign of terror coincides with the discovery that Phuong has betrayed him with Pyle. When THE QUIET AMERICAN was published in the US in 1956, its implication that Americans were involved in terrorism against the Vietnamese was met with outrage. As years have passed, however, the book has come to be seen as a prescient and probing look at a volatile situation that paved the way for America's tragic involvement in the Vietnam War.
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El Americano Tranquilo / The Quiet American by Graham Greene ( 2004) |
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The Bear Fell Free by Graham Greene ( 1977) |
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The Best of Saki by Graham Greene, Saki ( ) |
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Brighton Rock by Graham Greene ( 1988)
In Graham Greene's brilliant and harrowing psychological portrait of a sadistic young gangster, published in 1938, Pinkie, the teenaged head of a Brighton mob, becomes implicated in a murder early in the story. The only possible witness to the crime is Rose, a naive young waitress in a teashop who mistakes Pinkie's nervous inquiries for a sign of affection and falls in love with him. When Pinkie learns that a wife cannot be forced to testify against her husband in criminal cases, he marries Rose despite his feelings of distaste for her. All the while, however, Pinkie is being pursued by Ida, a prostitute who is obsessed with bringing him to justice. As Greene commented in his autobiography, "The Pinkies are the real Peter Pans--doomed to be juvenile for a lifetime. They have something of a fallen angel about them, a morality which once belonged to another place." This view suggests that Greene's preoccupation with religious themes, which became explicit in his later novels, began with this relatively early work. This was also the book that made Greene's reputation as a major literary figure.
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British Dramatists by Graham Greene ( 1996)
This 1942 survey covers British playwrights from John Bale in the 1500s through Shakespeare and Tennyson, to Noel Coward in Greene's own time.
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A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene ( 1992)
In Graham Greene's 1961 novel, a famous French architect travels to a leper colony in a remote outpost of the Congo and settles there, apparently with no intention of leaving. Querry, as he is known, has left behind a failed marriage, several mistresses, and a career that has kept him in the public eye for 20 years or more. Like many of the lepers for whom he now builds houses, he is a "burnt-out case," in whom the sickness of despair has run its course but left him permanently maimed. The world, however, will not be so easily put away, and Querry finds his peace threatened even here by the meddling of an ex-seminarian and a journalist who conspire to publicize the story of his "conversion."
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The Captain And the Enemy by Graham Greene, John Auchard ( 2005)
This evocative novel centers on the life of Victor Baxter, a young boy growing up amid odd and touching circumstances, and on his relationships with various unusual and enigmatic people. Reprint.
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The Captain and the Enemy by Graham Greene ( 1999)
Greene's last novel, a lonely boarding-school student encounters a secretive stranger who introduces himself simply as "the Captain". The boy is taken to London by the stranger and raised in odd and touching circumstances by Liza, a young woman with close but unexplained ties to the Captain. It is only when the boy grows to manhood that he will learn the shocking truth about the Captain's allegiances and activities, and will begin to understand the true nature of love.
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A Chance for Mr Lever by Graham Greene ( 2000) |
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Classic Tales of Espionage & Suspense by Graham Greene ( 1992) |
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The Collected Edition by Graham Greene ( 1900) |
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Collected Essays by Graham Greene ( 1981)
Critical essays on novels and novelists accompanied by character sketches of such famous persons as Pope Pius XII and Fidel Castro.
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Collected Plays by Graham Greene ( 2002)
A reissue of a volume of Graham Greene's eight plays: "The Return of A.J. Raffles", "Carving a Statue", "The Complaisant Lover", "The Living Room", "The Potting Shed", "Yes and No", "For Whom the Bell Chimes" and "The Great Jowett".
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Collected Short Stories by Graham Greene ( 1987)
A complete collection of the short fiction of the celebrated English writer, compiled by Greene himself.
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Collected Stories volume II by Graham Greene ( 2006)
A complete compilation of all the short fiction of the celebrated English novelist, compiled by Greene himself.
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The Comedians by Graham Greene ( 1994)
This novel of politics and espionage, set in the Haiti of "Papa Doc" Duvalier., describes the course of events that brings together three men who came to the island for very different reasons: Smith, an American idealist and crank who plans to establish a vegetarian commune for the Haitian poor; Brown, an Englishman who runs a cheap hotel and is involved with the wife of a South American diplomat; and Jones, an international gunrunner doing business with the Duvalier regime. Greene, who visited Haiti several times, was proud of the fact that Duvalier read his book and loathed it, saying it was "pas bien écrit." THE COMEDIANS was made into a 1967 film starring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Alec Guinness, and Peter Ustinov.
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Complete Short Stories by Graham Greene ( 2005)
A definitive compilation of short fiction by the critically acclaimed author of The Quiet American and The Third Man features forty-nine stories that capture all facets of the human experience and includes works originally published in two volumes--Collected Short Stories and The Last Word and Other Stories. Original.
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Confidential Agent An Entertainment by Graham Greene ( 1993)
Published in 1938, Graham Greene classed this espionage novel as one of his "entertainments." It concerns the efforts of Mr. D., the confidential agent of an unnamed country, to buy coal from Britain for his troubled homeland. Greene had the Spanish Civil War in mind as he wrote, but no actual conflict is ever specified. From the moment he sets foot on English soil, D's mission is dogged by violence and confusion. Graham Greene wrote THE CONFIDENTIAL AGENT in just six weeks, under the influence of Benzedrine--2000 words every morning. (In the afternoons, he was working on THE POWER AND THE GLORY.) In Greene's words (from his autobiography, WAYS OF ESCAPE), THE CONFIDENTIAL AGENT is about "the hunted man who becomes in turn the hunter, the peaceful man who turns at bay, the man who has learned to love justice by suffering injustice."
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El Consul Honorario/ The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene ( 2004) |
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Conversations With Graham Greene by ( 1992) |
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Dear David, Dear Graham A Bibliophilic Correspondence by Graham Greene, David Low, Robin E. Waterfield, Press Collection (Library of Congress), Alembic Press (Oxford, England) ( 1989) |
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El Decimo Hombre by Graham Greene ( 2002) |
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El Decimo Hombre/the Tenth Man by Graham Greene ( 1985)
Focuses on Jean-Louis Charlot, who returns to his home after a four-year absence knowing that strangers live there and that one moment of panic has cost him the right to call it his own.
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The Destructors by Graham Greene ( 1989) |
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Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party Or, the Bomb Party by Graham Greene ( 1980)
Dr. Fischer, an enigmatic millionaire, practical joker, and student of human nature, hosts notoriously decadent parties that serve as part of his experiment to see just how far the extremely wealthy will go to satisfy their greed.
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El Pequeno Tren by Graham Greene ( 1973) |
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En Busca De UN Personaje by Graham Greene ( 1984) |
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The End Of The Affair by Graham Greene ( 1999)
An adulterous love affair turns into a relationship filled with hate and jealousy.
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The End of the Party by Graham Greene ( 1992)
Peter and his fearful twin brother Francis attend a birthday party which ends in tragedy.
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England Made Me by Graham Greene ( 1992)
In this novel of psychological suspense, Kate and Anthony Farrant are twins; Kate, the elder by half-an-hour, is as effectual and clever as her brother is hapless and dim, and throughout the story she has to find ways to keep Anthony from falling victim to his own mistakes. Anthony is habitually out of work until, through the influence of Kate's wealthy lover, he is offered a job that leads to his eventual downfall.
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El Fin De LA Aventura/the End of the Affair by Graham Greene ( 1985)
An adulterous love affair is gradually transformed into a relationship filled with hate and jealousy.
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Getting to Know the General by Graham Greene ( 1993) |
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Graham Green Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene ( 1989) |
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Graham Greene A Life in Letters by Graham Greene ( 2008) |
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Graham Greene Man of Paradox by A.F. Cassis, Graham Greene ( 1994)
This collection of essays sheds light on one of the finest literary talents of the 20th century. fifty-seven excerpts of interviews, personal impressions, diary entries, articles, essays, and literary pieces reveal the private life of Greene--opinionated, charming, articulate, controversial.
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Graham Greene Country by Graham Greene, Paul Hogarth ( 1987) |
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The Graham Greene Film Reader Reviews, Essays, Interviews & Film Stories by Graham Greene, David Parkinson ( 1994)
Gathers Greene's film writings, and offers a brief introduction to the role of motion pictures in his life and career.
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Graham Greene's the Power and the Glory by Graham Greene ( 1986)
This story of bravery, cowardice, and moral decay is set in Mexico during the Calles regime of the 1930s, when the practice of Christianity was violently suppressed. It portrays the heroic and doomed efforts of a priest to minister secretly to the Catholics of the region. The "whiskey priest" is one of Greene's most memorable characters: a drunkard and fornicator, he nevertheless attempts to keep the Church alive in his province and puts his life at risk in the process. He is pursued throughout the story by the Chief of Police, a Javert-like figure who is a model of decorum, human decency--and coldheartedness. Widely acclaimed as one of Greene's finest books, THE POWER AND THE GLORY was the work that first established Green's reputation as a master of the novel form.
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The Great Jowett by Graham Greene ( 1981) |
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A Gun For Sale An Entertainment by Graham Greene ( 2005)
An assassin for hire, Raven becomes both the hunter and the hunted when he is paid for his latest killing with stolen notes and becomes a man on the run as he must track down the agent who double-crossed him while, at the same time, eluding the police. Reprint.
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The Heart of the Matter Stamboul Train ; A Burnt-Out Case ; The Third Man ; The Quiet American ; Loser Takes All ; The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene ( 1977) |
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Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene ( 2004)
This 1948 story of moral decay was one of Graham Greene's greatest popular and critical successes, though not one of his own favorites. His hero Scobie is a colonial police commissioner in West Africa. He endures a loveless marriage and a nondescript career patiently enough until he falls in love with a young shipwreck survivor who, literally, washes ashore at his feet. To send his wife on an extended holiday to South Africa, he borrows money from a Syrian merchant, who then uses his position to blackmail Scobie into turning a blind eye to his smuggling. Once his wife returns home, Scobie finds that he can no longer reconcile his affection for his mistress with his duties as a husband, a policeman, and a Catholic, and is pressed to a desperate resolution of his confusions. One of Greene's aims in this novel was to open a philosophical exploration into the differences between pity (which he sees as destructive) and compassion (which is positive). Upon its publication, Greene commented, "I found myself regarded as a Catholic author in England, Europe, and America--the last title to which I had ever aspired."
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The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene ( 1999)
An assistant police commissioner in a West African coastal town lets passion overrule his honor.
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The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene ( 2000)
The classic novel by the author of The Quiet American tells the tale of two Argentianian revolutionaries who kidnap an American, mistaking him for the American ambassador, in a new edition featuring an introduction by Michael Korda.
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The Human Factor by Graham Greene ( 2002)
Maurice Castle is a high-level operative of the British Secret Service in London. Happily married to a black woman, Castle reluctantly allows himself to act as a double agent so as to help his in-laws in South Africa, and eventually starts passing information to the Soviets. In order to evade detection, Castle allows his assistant to be wrongly identified as the source of the leaks, but suspicions remain, and Castle eventually flees to Moscow, forced to leave his wife and son behind.
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An Impossible Woman The Memories of Dottoressa Moor of Capri by Graham Greene, Elisabeth Moor ( 1976) |
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An Impossible Woman ; the Memories of Dottoressa Moor of Capri by Graham Greene, Elisabeth Moor ( 1975) |
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In Search of a Character Two African Journals by Graham Greene ( 1994)
A vivid portrait of Greene's Africa, also provides a wonderful glimpse of the novelist responding to the raw material of his art.
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It's a Battlefield by Graham Greene ( 1992)
In this story of violence and betrayal, Jim, a London bus-driver, is accused of killing a policeman. From this point of departure, Greene takes us on a panoramic tour of the British judicial system as it slowly bestirs itself to an examination of the matter at hand, and in the process we are brought into the vast economy of modern crime--the lawyers, policemen, informers, and victims, few of whom seem capable or interested in making fine distinctions regarding guilt and innocence.
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J'accuse, the Dark Side of Nice by Graham Greene ( 1982) |
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Journey Without Maps by Graham Greene ( 2006)
Details the author's 1935 journey in search of Liberia, a remote and unfamiliar West African republic founded for released slaves, recalling his journey across the red-clay terrain from Sierra Leone to the coast of Grand Bassa with a chain of porters and his discovery of one of the few areas of Africa untouched by Western colonization. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
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Journey into Fear by Graham Greene ( 1983)
While on a ship bound for Turkey, an armaments expert discovers that he is the intended victim of a murder plot.
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L'autre Et Son Double Entretiens Avec Marie-Francoise Allain by Graham Greene, Marie-Francoise Allain ( 1981) |
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LA Pequena Apisonadora/the Little Steamroller by Graham Greene ( 1985)
On a very cold day at London Airport, just before Christmas, Antonio Carretero's hard-working little steamroller becomes involved in the smuggling plans of the terrible Black Hand gang.
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The Last Word And Other Stories by Graham Greene ( 1992)
A collection of twelve new stories by the late author of The Power and the Glory features "The New House," written when the author was nineteen, "The News in England," a story of life in 1940, and "The Moment of Truth," penned in 1988. Reprint.
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The Last Word, and Other Stories by Graham Greene ( 1999)
These twelve stories, dating from 1923 to 1989, represent the quintessential Graham Greene. Rich in gallows humor, they have the power both to move and to entertain. Included here are such famous stories as "The Last Word", "The News in English", "The Lieutenant Died Last", and "The Lottery Ticket", as well as his masterly detective story "Murder for the Wrong Reason".
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The Lawless Roads by Graham Greene ( 2006)
The author describes his travels through Mexico during 1937 and 1938 and his impressions of its changing culture, detailing his odyssey through the tropical states of Chiapas and Tabasco, a region devastated by the brutal anticlerical purges of President Calles and an experience that inspired the setting and theme for his masterpiece, The Power and the Glory. Reissue. 10,000 first printing.
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The Little Fire Engine by Graham Greene ( 1973) |
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The Little Horse Bus by Graham Greene ( 1974) |
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The Little Steamroller by Graham Greene ( 1974) |
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The Little Train by Graham Greene ( 1974) |
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The Living Room by Graham Greene ( 2006) |
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Lord Rochester's Monkey Being the Life of John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester by Graham Greene ( 1989)
A biography of the 17th-century poet and nobleman. Rochester was a complex and highly self-destructive figure: a sophisticated degenerate who wrote devotional verse and died of excess at 33, a nobleman who cultivated a taste for squalor, and a Cavalier with strong Puritan impulses. Greene's biography, originally written in the 1930s but deemed too lurid for publication, is accompanied by a series of period illustrations.
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Loser Takes All by Graham Greene ( 1989)
Luck seems to have eluded Betram altogether. He doesn't even believe in chance. But when his wedding plans are moved to Monte Carlo, he is drawn to the Casino and is seduced by good fortune. A Miramax film starring Robert Lindsay and Molly Ringwald.
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The Man Within by Graham Greene ( 2005)
A new edition of the author's first published novel focuses on the adventures of Andrews, a young man who has betrayed his fellow smugglers and who now fears their retaliation. Reprint.
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May We Borrow Your Husband? and Other Comedies of the Sexual Life by Graham Greene ( 1992)
A collection of 12 short stories from the celebrated English novelist. Although the usual Greene themes of despair, betrayal, and corruption appear throughout, these pieces stand apart from most of the author's work in their comic tone.
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Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene ( 2005)
Hoping to forget the nightmare of the blitz and his feelings of guilt over having ended permanently the sufferings of his sick wife, Arthur Rowe is looking forward to a trip to the charity fete, until a chance correct guess about the true and false weight of a cake makes him the target of shadowy, dark forces. Reprint.
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Monsenor Kikhot Roman by Graham Greene, T. A. Kudriavtseva ( 1989) |
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Monsenor Quijote by Graham Greene ( 1995) |
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Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene ( 2008)
This lighthearted modern variation on the classic Cervantes novel is set in the Spanish village of El Toboso. It describes the journey to Madrid made by the village priest, Father Quixote, to buy the purple socks that he needs now that, through a clerical error, he has been elevated to the rank of Monsignor. He is accompanied by his best friend, the Communist ex-mayor of the village, who argues politics and religion with the priest and has to rescue him from the various troubles that his innocence lands him in along the way.
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Mornings in the Dark The Graham Greene Film Reader by Graham Greene, David Parkinson ( 1993) |
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No Man's Land by Graham Greene ( 2006) |
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No Man's Land by Graham Greene ( 2005) |
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Nuestro hombre en la Habana / Our Man in Havana Un entretenimiento / An Entertainment by Graham Greene ( 2004) |
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The Old School Essays by Divers Hands by ( 1984) |
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Orient Express An Entertainment by Graham Greene ( 2004)
ORIENT EXPRESS (1933) was Graham Greene's third novel, but it was his first truly successful one. Though he classed this novel as one of his "entertainments" (as opposed to his more serious fiction), ORIENT EXPRESS is a probing look at the themes that would obsess Greene all his life: sex vs. morality, suicide, issues of loyalty and betrayal, and the lure of the exotic.
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Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene ( 2007)
Follows the plight of Wormold, a former vacuum cleaner salesman, who becomes a slave to the expensive whims of his thirteen-year-old daughter, Milly, and takes on a job for MI6 as Secret Agent 5920015 to pay for them. Reissue.
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Una Pistola En Venta/a Gun for Sale by Graham Greene ( 1985)
The detective, Mather, searches for a professional assassin, who unknowingly has kidnapped Mather's fiancee.
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Pleasure Dome The Collected Film Criticism, 1935-1940 by Graham Greene ( 1980) |
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The Pleasure-Dome The Collected Film Criticism 1935-40 [of] Graham Greene by Graham Greene ( 1972) |
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El Poder Y La Gloria/ The Power And The Glory by Graham Greene, Fabio Camero ( 2005) |
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El Poder Y Las Gloria by Graham Greene ( 1982) |
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The Portable Graham Greene by Philip Stratford, Graham Greene ( 2005)
A wide-ranging anthology features autobiographical and critical material on the English writer, as well as a representative selection of his fiction, including the novels The Third Man and The Heart of the Matter, short stories, and additional novel excerpts, along with travel writings, literary essays, autobiographical reflections, and more. Reprint.
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The Power And The Glory by Graham Greene ( 2005)
The nearness to God through sinning. A priest has fallen down in vices and finds himself in the middle of a violent revolution in a Latin American country. Suddenly the priest, regardless of his vices, finds himself in a dilemma that will allow him to return to his beliefs. This is the basic topic of the great novel from the English writer Graham Greene, one of the most brilliant playwright and British novelists of the 20th century. He explores in a story full of suspense, a profound thesis that has made of this, one of the most popular works of the writer.
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The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene ( 1999)
This story of bravery, cowardice, and moral decay is set in Mexico during the Calles regime of the 1930s, when the practice of Christianity was violently suppressed. It portrays the heroic and doomed efforts of a priest to minister secretly to the Catholics of the region. The "whiskey priest" is one of Greene's most memorable characters: a drunkard and fornicator, he nevertheless attempts to keep the Church alive in his province and puts his life at risk in the process. He is pursued throughout the story by the Chief of Police, a Javert-like figure who is a model of decorum, human decency--and coldheartedness. Widely acclaimed as one of Greene's finest books, THE POWER AND THE GLORY was the work that first established Green's reputation as a master of the novel form.
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Puede prestarnos a su marido?/ May We Borrow Your Husband? Y Otras Comedias De La Vida Sexual/ and Other Comedies of the Sexual Life by Graham Greene ( 2004) |
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The Quiet American Text and Criticism by Graham Greene, John Clark Pratt ( 1996)
While the French army in Indo-China is grappling with the Vietminh, back at Saigon a young and high-minded American begins to channel economic aid to a Third Force ..."The Quiet American" is a terrifying portrait of innocence at large.
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Rabbit Ears Treasury of Holiday Stories Squanto & The First Thanksgiving / The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Rabbit Ears ( 2007) |
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Reflections by Graham Greene ( 2007)
Lesley brings you to the feet of the Lord Jesus to listen to Him, talk to Him, worship Him. In this, her first collection of poems, she gives you a glimpse into the throne, as she loves her Master with poems for the King.
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Return of A.J. Raffles An Edwardian Comedy in 3 Acts Based Somewhat Loosely on E.W. Hornungs Characters in the Amateur Cracksman by Graham Greene ( 1975)
A comic play in three acts by Graham Greene, the celebrated English novelist. Set in the London of 1900, it concerns the career of Raffles, a genteel thief who is presumed dead but who makes a sudden reappearance and is captured by Scotland Yard. He is rescued from imprisonment through the intervention of his friend, the Prince of Wales, and returns to live with Bunny, his best friend and partner in crime. Various real-life Edwardian personages, such as the German spy Captain von Blixen and the Marquess of Queensbury, appear as characters.
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El Reves De LA Trama/the Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene ( 1985)
As assistant police commissioner in a West African coastal town lets passion overrule his honor.
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The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith by Claire Morgan ( 2005)
From the late mistress of suspense and noir fiction comes a chilling anthology of short fiction, featuring works from five of her classic short story collections combined into a single anthology. By the author of The Talented Mr. Ripley.
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A Sense of Reality and Other Stories by Graham Greene ( 2000) |
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Shades of Greene The Televised Stories of Graham Greene by Graham Greene ( 1975) |
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A Sort of Life by Graham Greene ( 1982) |
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The Spy's Bedside Book by Graham Greene ( 2008)
Gathers stories, reminiscences, and real-life anecdotes about spies, spying, unusual encounters, disguises, and espionage techniques, in an anthology that features contributions from D. H. Lawrence, William Blake, Thomas Mann, Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Ian Fleming, Eric Ambler, and Graham Greene, among others. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.
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Stamboul Train by Graham Greene, Michael Maloney ( 2001)
Illustrates the unusual relationship between a man and a woman traveling on the Orient Express.
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Suspense Orient Express, This Gun for Hire, the Ministry of Fear, Our Man in Havna, This Gun for Hire, Our Man in Havana and the Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene ( 1995)
Four of Greene's novels, including THIS GUN FOR SALE and ORIENT EXPRESS.
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The Tenth Man by Graham Greene ( 1998)
An utterly gripping story of a wealthy French lawyer being held prisoner by the Germans during World War II. The lawyer is chosen by the soldiers to die, but instead he makes a cowardly trade for his life--one that he will have to pay for even as a free man.
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El Tercer Hombre / The Third Man by Graham Greene ( 2004) |
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The Third Man by Graham Greene ( 1999)
Just arrived in Vienna, Rollo Martins discovers that the friend he has come to visit is dead.
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The Third Man and the Fallen Idol by Graham Greene ( 1992)
Just arrived in Vienna, Rollo Martins discovers that the friend he has come to visit is dead, and Philip, a small boy, unwittingly betrays his best friend to the police.
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This Gun for Hire by Graham Greene ( 1982) |
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Three Entertainments A Gun for Sale/the Confidential Agent/the Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene ( 1994) |
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Todo Marcha Sobre Ruedas by Graham Greene ( 2003) |
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Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene ( 2004)
In Graham Greene's comic novel a staid middle-aged bank manager, newly retired, has his life rearranged by his eccentric, freewheeling elderly aunt Augusta. Henry Pulling has very modest expectations when he agrees to a holiday on the Continent with Aunt Augusta, but the trip turns into something he is, to say the least, not prepared for. Augusta, despite her respectable facade, is not only a bohemian and a libertine, but an arms smuggler and secret agent as well. Their itinerary becomes more and more complicated, leading from London to Istanbul to Paraguay, as Pulling is dragged into a succession of intrigues--discovering, in the process, a shocking secret about his family history. Needless to say, he also finds himself really living for the first time in his stunted life. Greene commented in his memoirs that TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT was the only book he had ever written purely for the fun of it.
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Triple Pursuit A Graham Greene Omnibus by Graham Greene ( 1971) |
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Twenty-One Stories by Graham Greene ( 1981)
An anthology of short fiction by the celebrated English novelist. Greene selected the works to be included himself.
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Under the Garden by Graham Greene ( 1995) |
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Venus in the Kitchen Or Loves Cookery Book by Norman Douglas, Pilaff Bey ( 2002)
The cult classic-now available for the first time with its original illustrations.
Toss your Viagra in the trash and make room on your shelf for Venus in the Kitchen, Norman Douglas' wry, eccentric, and highly practical collection of aphrodisiac recipes. Compiled by Douglas and his friends during their twilight years, it was intended for private use among those who were 'anxious to preserve for as long as may be possible the vitality of their youth and middle age'. Now, Venus in the Kitchen is available to all of us who crave an extra dose of vigor in our diets. A whimsical marriage of the utilitarian and the absurd, this collection of over a hundred annotated recipes runs the gamut from the simple and delicious (almond soup) to the dangerously effective (hysterical water) to the downright ridiculous (sparrows' brains, crane). Complete with beautiful vintage illustrations, introductions by Graham Greene and Stephen Fry, and an unforgettable frontispiece by D.H. Lawrence (whom Douglas quipped 'certainly looked as if his own health would have been improved by a course of such recipes as I had gathered together'), Douglas' irreverent cookbook is a gift you can either slip discreetly under your lover's pillow, or keep for yourself. |
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Viajes Con Mi Tia/Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene ( 1986)
Henry Pulling, a retired manager, volunteers to accompany his aunt on a trip to Istanbul and soon becomes involved wtih an ill-assorted group of travelers on the Orient Express.
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Viajes con mi tia/ Travels with my Aunt by Graham Greene ( 2004) |
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Victorian Villainies/the Great Tontine/the Rome Express/in the Fog/the Beetle by ( 1985) |
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Victorian Villanies The Great Tontine, the Rome Express, in the Fog, the Beetle by Graham Greene, Hugh Greene ( 1986) |
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WAYS OF ESCAPE A Memoir by Graham Greene ( 2007) |
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Ways of Escape by Graham Greene ( 1982)
Greene recalls his wartime experiences with the British secret service, his involvement in the cinema, his voyages throughout the world, the people he has met, and the circumstances and genesis of each of his major works.
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Why Do I Write An Exchange of Views between Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene & V. S. Pritchett ; with a Pref by V. S. Pritchett by V. S. Pritchett, Graham Greene, Elizabeth Bowen ( 1978) |
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Why Do I Write An Exchange of Views between Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, & V. S. Pritchett by V. S. Pritchett, Graham Greene, Elizabeth Bowen ( 1977) |
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Why Do I Write? by V. Pritchett, Elizabeth Brown, Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene ( 1975)
In this illuminating collection of essays, various English writers answer the question: why do I write?
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A World of My Own A Dream Diary by Graham Greene ( 1994)
Drawing on his private world of dreams, the author of The Power and the Glory provides readers with an inner glimpse at the fantasy life that he considered integral to his creative expression.
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Yes and No And, For Whom the Bell Chimes by Graham Greene ( 1983) |
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Yours Etc. Letters to the Press by Graham Greene ( 1991) |
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El agente confidencial/ The confidential agent by Graham Greene ( 1995)
War weary, Mr. D., a former professor of Romance languages, journeys to England in order to purchase coal for his country and stave off a civil war.
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El tercer hombre/ The third man by Graham Greene ( 2008) |
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El tercer hombre/ The third man by Graham Greene ( 2008) |
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