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Discover Graham Green's prescient political masterpiece'The novel that I love the most is The Quiet American' Ian McEwanInto the intrigue and violence of 1950s Indo-China comes CIA agent Alden Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUXThree men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt 'Papa Doc' and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. And, to begin with, they are men afraid of love, afraid of pain, afraid of fear itself...
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOODScobie, a police officer serving in a war-time West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.
Discover Graham Greene's blackly comic and timely espionage thriller, set amid the vice and squalor of pre-revolutionary Havana. 'British Intelligence being sent up something rotten' Daily Telegraph Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power cuts.
Arthur Rowe's mind is hamstrung by guilt - a Graham Greene speciality - and he stands aside from the war until he happens to guess both the true and the false weight of the cake at a charity fete. From that moment he is the quarry of malign and shadowy forces from which he tries to escape with a mind that is out of focus.
Believing he can escape retribution, Pinkie is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold, who is determined to uncover him. Few, if any, can match the originality of Brighton Rock, and of Pinkie - one of fiction's most unnerving and compelling villains.
Few novelists have taken films as seriously, or been involved in so many aspects of the film business, as Graham Greene. His experience included producing, performing, script-writing and adaptation. This book presents some of Greene's best film criticism with a mass of related material: film articles, interviews, lectures, radio talks, and more.
Altings hjerte fortæller en historie om krig, spionage, kærlighed, utroskab, bedrag, diamantsmugling og moralske dilemmaer. I romanens kerne – i plottet, i dens psykologiske dybde – ligger to moralske spørgsmål; Er det muligt at gøre andre lykkelige? Er selvmord nogen gange det rette valg?Henry Scobie arbejder som politibetjent i en lille udpost af det britiske kolonialstyre i Sierra Leone under Anden verdenskrig, og fungerer som romanens enigmatiske omdrejningspunkt. Scobie forsøger at gøre sin poesi-elskende og dybt ulykkelige hustru, Louise, glad. Varmen, den øde beliggenhed og det at hun ingen venner har i den lille landsby er ved at drive hende til vanvid, og da Scobie ikke får en ventet forfremmelse, føler hun sig ydmyget, og hendes ubehag bringes til en febervarm krise. Scobie går med til at betale for rejsen, så Louise kan komme til Sydafrika, men for at skaffe pengene må han låne dem fra en lokal handelsmand og diamantsmugler; hans tidligere pletfrie ry er pludselig blevet korrumperet, og når først byens mørke kræfter har fat i person, så giver de nødigt slip.
Early one morning the little train wakes up in his home town, Little Snoreing, and decides to go on an adventure. First published by The Bodley Head in 1974, this new edition brings the classic little train back to life for a whole new generation.
UPDATED AND EDITED WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JUDITH ADAMSONWhether reporting from the London cinema, Cotswolds villages, second-hand bookshops, war zones or political trouble spots, Graham Greene's novelistic gifts for detail, drama and compassionate curiosity provide unique and resonant insights into his life and times.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY IAN RANKIN'In a class by himself...the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety' William GoldingIn a small continental country civil war is raging.
A young boy, Victor, is collected from school by a stranger in a bowler hat - the stranger says he has won Victor in a game of backgammon with Victor's father. The stranger, known as the Captain, takes Victor to live with the sweet but withdrawn Lisa, where he serves as her conduit to the outside world.
Contains two African notebooks Congo Journal, which records Graham Greene's travels in 1959, and his stay at the Yonda leper colony in the jungle which inspired the story for "A Burnt-Out Case" and Convoy to West Africa that describes Greene's voyage in a cargo boat during the Second World War, from Liverpool to Freetown, Sierra Leone.
'In August 1981 my bag was packed for my fifth visit to Panama when the news came to me over the telephone of the death of General Omar Torrijos Herrera, my friend and host.
On its first appearance in 1957, Hugh and Graham Greene's The Spy's Bedside Book provoked a storm of interest, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, 100 copies were bought by East German Intelligence.
The Great Jowett. For Whom the Bell ChimesIn these eight plays Graham Greene, one of the great writers of the twentieth century, demonstrates his considerable skills as a dramatist. Each of them explores themes that were of fundamental importance to Greene, and together they exhibit a daring wit and an exhilarating sense of experiment.
In 1938 Graham Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico to discover the state of the country and its people in the aftermath of the brutal anti-clerical purges of President Calles. His journey took him through the tropical states of Chiapas and Tabasco, where all the churches had been destroyed or closed and the priests driven out or shot.
Drover, a Communist bus driver, is in prison, sentenced to death for killing a policeman during a riot at Hyde Park Corner. A battle for a reprieve with many participants ensues: the Assistant Commissioner, high-principled and over-worked; pretty, promiscuous Kay - all have a part to play in his fate.
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