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Power and the Glory
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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 ...
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Quiet American
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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 ...
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End of the Affair
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Graham Greene's 1951 novel centers on the attempt of Maurice Bendix, a London novelist, to learn why his lover, Sarah, had abandoned him without a word of explanation several years before. In the course of the story, Sarah dies, and Maurice comes into possession of her journal, which provides an explanation that is hardly less perplexing to him ...
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Heart of the Matter
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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, ...
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Comedians
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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 ...
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Our Man in Havana
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English expatriate Wormold, who sells vacuum cleaners in Havana, becomes entangled in British government affairs at the beginning of the story and is pressed into service as an operative of M.I.5. He agrees reluctantly, so as to earn some extra money for his 17-year-old daughter's education, but does not bother to engage in any actual espionage. ...
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Travels with my aunt
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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, ...
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Human Factor
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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 ...
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Monsignor Quixote
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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, ...
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Brighton rock
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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 ...
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Honorary Consul
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When Charlie Fortnum, an Englishman who acts as "Honorary Consul" to the British subjects of a small town in Argentina, is kidnapped by Marxist guerillas, a chain of events is set in motion that draws both apathetic and committed bystanders into a confrontation with the forces of authority. Leon Rivas, a renegade priest, joins the guerillas and is ...
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The Tenth Man
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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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A burnt-out case
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Journey Without Maps
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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 Greenes journey. Crossing the red-clay terrain from Sierra Leone to the coast of Grand Bassa ...
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Sort of Life
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Ways of Escape
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The autobiography of the famous English novelist, in which he not only gives an account of his life and travels, but provides a detailed examination and self-evaluation of his writings. Originally published as two separate volumes.
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The Ministry of Fear
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For Arthur Rowe the charity fe te was a trip back to childhood, to innocence, a welcome chance to escape the terror of the Blitz, to forget twenty years of his past and a murder...Then he guesses the weight of the cake, and from that moment on he' s a hunted man, the target of shadowy killers, on the run and struggling to remember and to find the ...
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Doctor Fischer of Geneva, or the Bomb Party
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In this allegorical tale, Alfred Jones, the English narrator falls in love and marries the young daughter of the Swiss millionaire, Dry. Filcher. Jones' is famous for giving dinner parties at which his guests are humiliated and subsequently rewarded with expensive gifts. After Jones loses his wife in a skiing accident, Dry. Filcher invites him to ...
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The Third Man
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In this novelization of Graham Greene's screenplay for the classic 1949 film, a writer travels to postwar Vienna to go to work for his friend, Harry Lime. But Harry Lime is missing, supposedly killed in a traffic accident. It soon becomes clear that Lime was a major figure in the black market, and that he had made a fortune selling tainted ...
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The ministry of fear, an entertainment
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A story of espionage and crime from the celebrated English novelist. The hero is a middle-aged mental patient newly released from the asylum he had been confined to after killing his terminally ill wife several years before. In London, in the early days of the Second World War, he stumbles into a spy ring and soon finds himself marked for ...
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Captain and the Enemy
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In this novel of politics and psychology, the narrator is a small-town British journalist who returns to London for the funeral of his guardian, Liza, who had raised him as her own son. While in London, he discovers that "the Captain," a shadowy figure who supported Liza financially, is now living in Panama, and he travels there to find him and ...
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Getting to Know the General: The Story of an Involvement
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The man within
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THE MAN WITHIN is the first novel Graham Greene published. It is a story of loyalty and betrayal among a band of smugglers on the coast of Sussex. The protagonist, Andrews, struggles with the enduring presence of his dead father, who had led the smugglers before he died. The familiar Greene themes of betrayal, guilt, and fate are all present, but ...
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Lord Rochester's Monkey
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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 ...
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Confidential Agent
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