Poetry Books by Graham Greene
Publisher: Vintage Classic
Published Date: 2011-11-03
Categories: Boys
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 The stranger, known as the Captain, takes Victor to live with the sweet but withdrawn Lisa, where he serves as her conduit to the outside world. From mysterious beginnings, Graham Greene's final novel becomes a twisting thriller of smuggling, jewel theft and international espionage which culminates in a dramatic showdown in Panama.
Publisher: Random House
Published Date: 2010-10-02
Categories: Literary Criticism
The Living Room. The Potting Shed. The Complaisant Lover. Carving a Statue. The Return of A. J. Raffles. The Great Jowett. Yes and No. For Whom the Bell Chimes. In 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.
Publisher: Random House
Published Date: 2001
Categories: Short stories
The stories in this book, all written between 1929 and 1954, share the themes that feature so strongly in Graham Greene's novels: humour and violence, pity and hatred, betrayal and pursuit. Comic, sad, shocking and tragic, they recount the tales of Mr. Maling's loud stomach, destructive gangs of children, indiscretions revealed and secrets uncovered.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published Date: 2008
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
An autobiographical account in letters offers insight into the late-twentieth-century author's political influence, espionage activities, and personal life, in a volume that also covers how his work was influenced by his humanitarian visits to Mexico, Vietnam, and Cuba. 10,000 first printing.
Publisher: Applause Books
Published Date: 1994
Categories: Performing Arts
Gathers Greene's film writings, and offers a brief introduction to the role of motion pictures in his life and career
Publisher: Melville House
Published Date: 2019-09-17
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
A master of twentieth century fiction, Graham Greene looks back on his life. This volume also includes several key interviews from throughout his long, fruitful career. Graham Greene led one of the most extraordinary lives of the twentieth century. The son of a Hertfordshire headmaster, he quickly discovered a love for writing, beginning a career that would last a lifetime. Greene's fascination with global politics took him around the world, to places that would become the settings for many of his most famous novels: Mexico (The Power and the Glory), Sierra Leone (The Heart of the Matter), and Haiti (The Comedians) - among dozens of other far-flung locations. He produced masterpieces throughout his life, many of which now stand as indisputably canonical: Brighton Rock, The End of the Affair, and The Quiet American to name but a few.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published Date: 1980
Categories: Fiction
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
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published Date: 1977
Categories: Aunts
Greene's fine sense of humor is displayed in this warm and far-reaching comic novel, Travels with My Aunt, a bestseller when it appeared originally. At his mother's funeral, Henry Pulling, a stuffy, retired bank manager with an interest in dahlias, meets his Aunt Augusta. The indomitable Aunt Augusta pulls Henry along on a whirlwind adventure traveling with an old lover, Wordsworth; Curran, the founder of a doggies' church; O'Toole, the C.I.A. man obsessed by statistics and his counter-culture daughter; and old Mr. Visconti, who has been wanted by Interpol for twenty years. Henry describes their activities with shock and bewilderment, and finally with the tenderness, of a fellow traveler going their way. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Publisher: Loyola Press
Published Date: 1994
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
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.
Publisher: Random House
Published Date: 2012
Categories: Adultery
The novelist Maurice Bendrix's love affair with his friend's wife, Sarah, had begun in London during the Blitz. But, out of the blue, she ended the relationship. Years later, he sends a private detective to follow Sarah and find out the truth.
Publisher: Random House
Published Date: 1999
Categories: Authors, English
With superb skill and feeling, Graham greene retraces the experiences and encounters of a long and extraordinary life. His restlessness is legendary; he has travelled like an explorer seeking our people and political situations. 'at the dangerous edge of
Publisher: Carcanet Press
Published Date: 1993
Categories: Cinema - Films (Motion pictures)
Twenty years before the celebrated films The Third Man, The Fallen Idol and Brighton Rock, Graham Greene was deeply involved with cinema as critic, essayist and polemicist. Described by Basil Wright as a child of the film age, Greene became one of the most perceptive, trenchant film critics of the 1930s, with first-hand experience as screen writer, producer, adaptor and performer, and a considerable knowledge of camera technique.
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published Date: 2008-09-30
Categories: Fiction
Set in a provincial Argentinean town, this novel takes place in that bleak country of exhausted passion, betrayal, and absurd hope that Graham Greene has explored so precisely in such novels as The Power and the Glory and The Comedians.
Publisher: Random House
Published Date: 2001
Categories: British
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IAN THOMPSONThe Third Man is Graham Greene's brilliant recreation of post-war Vienna, a smashed dreary city occupied by the four Allied powers. Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless to vi
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published Date: 1999-05-01
Categories: Fiction
Rollo Martins' usual line is the writing of cheap paperback Westerns under the name of Buck Dexter. But when his old friend Harry Lime invites him to Vienna, he jumps at the chance. With exactly five pounds in his pocket, he arrives only just in time to make it to his friend's funeral. The victim of an apparently banal street accident, the late Mr. Lime, it seems, had been the focus of a criminal investigation, suspected of nothing less than being "the worst racketeer who ever made a dirty living in this city." Martins is determined to clear his friend's name, and begins an investigation of his own...
Publisher: Random House
Published Date: 2010-10-02
Categories: Fiction
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUX Three 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. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American and Jones the confidence man - these are the 'comedians' of Graham Greene's title. Hiding behind their actors' masks, they hesitate on the edge of life. And, to begin with, they are men afraid of love, afraid of pain, afraid of fear itself...
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published Date: 2008-09-30
Categories: Fiction
Maurice Castle is a high-level operative of the British Secret Service during the Cold War era. Deeply in love with his African wife, Castle decides with misgivings to act as a double agent to help his in-laws in South Africa. Eventually Castle begins passing information to the Soviets. In order to evade detection, he allows his assistant to be wrongly identified as the source of the leaks. But when suspicions remain, Castle is forced to make an even more excruciating sacrifice to save himself.
Publisher: Vintage Classic
Published Date: 1961
Categories: Africa
Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a 'burnt-out case', a leper who has gone through a stage of mutilation.
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published Date: 2004-08-31
Categories: Fiction
Illustrates the unusual relationship between a man and a woman traveling on the Orient Express.
Publisher: Random House
Published Date: 2011-03-22
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Graham Greene's 'long journey through time' began in 1904, when he was born into a tribe of Greenes based in Berkhamstead at the public school where his father was headmaster. In A Sort of Life Greene recalls schooldays and Oxford, adolescent encounters with psychoanalysis and Russian roulette, his marriage and conversion to Catholicism, and how he rashly resigned from The Times when his first novel, The Man Within was published in 1929. A Sort of Life reveals, brilliantly and compellingly, a life lived and an art obsessed by 'the dangerous edge of things'.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published Date: 2022-04-05
Categories: Fiction
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.
