Format: PDF (117 p.). Size: 422 kb. Language: English. Affairs, obsessions, ardours, fantasy, myth, legend and dream, fear, pity and violence - this magnificant collection of stories illuminates all corners of the human experience. The basement room. The end of the party. I spy. The innocent. A drive in the country. Across the bridge. Jubilee. Brother. Proof positive. A chance...
Pocket Books, 1973. — 161 p. 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...
Vintage, 2002. — 179 p. 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...
Introduction by J. M. Coetzee. Graham Greene's chilling exposé of violence and gang warfare in the pre-war underworld is a classic of its kind. Pinkie, the teenage gangster, is devoid of compassion or human feeling, despising weakness of the spirit or of the flesh. Responsible for the razor slashes that killed Kite and also for the death of Hale, he is the embodiment of...
Vintage, 1999. — 352 p. This volume contains nearly 80 essays, reviews and occasional pieces composed by Greene between novels, plays and travel books, over four prolific decades. They are as revealing as autobiography and as characteristically rich in humour, insight and doubt.
Vintage Classics, 2004. — 224 p. '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...At that moment the idea came to me to write a short personal memoir...of a man I had grown to love over those five years' GETTING TO KNOW THE GENERAL is Graham Greene's...
The Bodley Head, 1961, — 125 p. In Search of A Character is a vivid portrait of Greene's Africa and provides a wonderful glimpse of the novelist responding to the raw material of his art. Two African notebooks record his travels in 1959, and his stay at the Yonda leper colony in the jungle which inspired the story for A Burnt-Out Case. Convoy to West Africa describes his voyage...
Vintage, 2006. — 272 p. His mind crowded with vivid images of Africa, Graham Greene set off in 1935 to discover Liberia, a remote and unfamiliar republic founded for released slaves. Now with a new introduction by Paul Theroux, Journey Without Maps is the spellbinding record of Greene's journey. Crossing the red-clay terrain from Sierra Leone to the coast of Grand Bassa with a...
Penguin, 2006. — 240 p. — (Penguin Classics). — ISBN10: 0143039733; ISBN13: 978-0143039730. Graham Greene (1904-1991), whose long life nearly spanned the length of the twentieth century, was one of its greatest novelists. Educated at Berkhamsted School and Balliol College, Oxford, he started his career as a sub-editor of The Times of London. He began to attract notice as a...
"Our Man In Havana" (1958) is amusing and entertaining "nonsense" by British author Graham Greene about the British intelligence services ( MI5 MI6 ). The "nonsense" became reality in the 1960s with Fidel Castro and the construction of missile bases in Cuba by the USSR in 1963. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1959, directed by Carol Reed and starring Alec...
Reinhardt, 1990. — 452 p. An intimate collection of writing that spans almost seven decades. It is the perfect complement to Graham Greene's much-loved, much-admired Ways of Escape
A striking depiction of Haiti on the brink of chaos, delivered with Greene’s characteristic dark humour, forceful story-telling, and very obvious human sympathy. 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...
London . Penguin Books . 1963 ( first published 1943 ). c. 153 From the blitz on London Graham Greene gathered up the pieces for what must be his most phantasmagoric study in terror. Arthur Rowe's was a mind hamstrung by guilt -- the guilt of having mercifully murdered his sick wife. He was standing aside from the war until he happened to guess both the true and the false...
William Heinemann Ltd., 1915. — 247 p. The Quiet American is a 1955 novel by English author Graham Greene. Narrated in the first person by journalist Thomas Fowler, the novel depicts the breakdown of French colonialism in Vietnam and early American involvement in the Vietnam War.
Described by Graham Greene as "the only book I have written just for the fun of it." Travels with My Aunt is the story of Hanry Pulling, a retired and complacent bank manager, who meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. She soon persuades Henry to abandon his dull suburban existence to travel her way — to...
London: The Companion Book Club, 1969. - 288 c. Скан 600dpi. Described by Graham Greene as "the only book I have written just for the fun of it". Henry Pulling is a recently retired bank manager. He was offered an arrangement after many years of devoted service when his bank was taken over by another. He is looking forward to spending more time with the dahlias that are his...
London: The Companion Book Club, 1969. - 288 c. Скан 600dpi. Described by Graham Greene as "the only book I have written just for the fun of it". Henry Pulling is a recently retired bank manager. He was offered an arrangement after many years of devoted service when his bank was taken over by another. He is looking forward to spending more time with the dahlias that are his...
Vintage, 2001. — 200 p. In 'The Basement Room' a small boy witnesses an event that blights his whole life. Like the other stories in this book (written between 1929 and 1954), it hinges on the themes that dominate Graham Greene's novels - fear, pity and violence, pursuit, betrayal and man's restless search for salvation. Some of the stories are comic - poor Mr. Maling's stomach...
Lester 1980. — 266 p. 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 things' - Haiti during the nightmare rule of Papa Doc, Vietnam in the last days - of the French. ,...
Knopf, 1992. — 144 p. Culled from nearly eight hundred pages of the author’s “dream diaries” kept between 1965 and 1989, this singular journal reveals “the feverish inner life of an intensely private man, providing an uncanny mirror-image of [his] novelistic obsessions, insecurities, and moral preoccupations” (Publishers Weekly). In what Greene calls My Own World — as opposed...
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