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The Quest For Graham Greene

Author : W. J. West
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250096383
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Quest For Graham Greene written by W. J. West and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W.J. West has unearthed and pieced together all-new material regarding Graham Greene, which sheds light into the darker regions of Greene's personal, religious, financial, and international affairs. Based on information gleaned from private archives and a cache of letters belonging to thriller writer Rene Raymond (known to his reading public as James Hadley Chase) West exposes, among other information, the reasons behind Greene's sudden, self-imposed exile from England. What the Chase letters show is that Greene and Chase shared the same tax consultant and that the two men, along with Charlie Chaplin and Noel Coward, became unwittingly embroiled in a tax evasion and fraud operation scandal with roots in the Hollywood mafia. Through further investigation, West also uncovers the origins of Greene's literary ambitions and his obsession with Catholicism, as well as new discoveries concerning Greene's crucial mental breakdown as a teenager. West also reveals more information on Greene's involvement with espionage, M16, and his ties with Kim Philby.

The Quest for Graham Greene

Author : W. J. West
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780753801369
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Quest for Graham Greene written by W. J. West and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greene reads like a character from his own fiction in this revelatory account of his links with MI6 and the Hollwood mafia. West exposes the reasons Greene's sudden self-imposed exile, his fascination with the mafia, his loathing of America, the origins of his obsessions with Catholicism, espionage and his own involvement in MI6. As riveting as any Greene novel, this is the book which gets to the heart of one of this century's most important - and elusive - writers.

The Quest for Graham Greene

Author : William J. West
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book The Quest for Graham Greene written by William J. West and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Human Factor

Author : Graham Greene
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143105566
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Human Factor written by Graham Greene and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maurice Castle is a high-level operative in the British secret service during the Cold War. He is deeply in love with his African wife, who escaped apartheid South Africa with the help of his communist friend. Despite his misgivings, Castle decides to act as a double agent, passing information to the Soviets to help his in-laws in South Africa. 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. Originally published in 1978, The Human Factor is an exciting novel of espionage drawn from Greene’s own experiences in MI6 during World War II, and ultimately a deeply humanistic examination of the very nature of loyalty. This edition features a new introduction by Colm Tóibín. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Name of Action

Author : Graham Greene
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Name of Action written by Graham Greene and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rumour at Nightfall

Author : Graham Greene
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Rumour at Nightfall written by Graham Greene and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Confidential Agent

Author : Graham Greene
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409020487
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Confidential Agent written by Graham Greene and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-10-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY IAN RANKIN ‘In a class by himself...the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man’s consciousness and anxiety’ William Golding In a small continental country civil war is raging. Once a lecturer in medieval French, now a government agent, D is a scarred stranger in England, sent on a mission to buy coal at any price. Initially, this seems to be a matter of straightforward negotiation, but soon, implicated in murder, accused of possessing false documents and theft, held responsible for the death of a young woman, D becomes a hunted man, tormented by allegiances, doubts and love.

The Quiet American

Author : Graham Greene
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504052544
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Quiet American written by Graham Greene and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “masterful . . . brilliantly constructed novel” of love and chaos in 1950s Vietnam (Zadie Smith, The Guardian). It’s 1955 and British journalist Thomas Fowler has been in Vietnam for two years covering the insurgency against French colonial rule. But it’s not just a political tangle that’s kept him tethered to the country. There’s also his lover, Phuong, a young Vietnamese woman who clings to Fowler for protection. Then comes Alden Pyle, an idealistic American working in service of the CIA. Devotedly, disastrously patriotic, he believes neither communism nor colonialism is what’s best for Southeast Asia, but rather a “Third Force”: American democracy by any means necessary. His ideas of conquest include Phuong, to whom he promises a sweet life in the states. But as Pyle’s blind moral conviction wreaks havoc upon innocent lives, it’s ultimately his romantic compulsions that will play a role in his own undoing. Although criticized upon publication as anti-American, Graham Greene’s “complex but compelling story of intrigue and counter-intrigue” would, in a few short years, prove prescient in its own condemnation of American interventionism (The New York Times).

The Works of Graham Greene, Volume 3

Author : Mike Hill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350285757
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Works of Graham Greene, Volume 3 written by Mike Hill and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a 60-year career, Graham Greene was a prolific and widely read writer. Completing a series of volumes which constitutes the only full bibliographical guide to Greene's published and unpublished writings, this book features updated listings of the scholarship associated with his work, details of recent audio and visual presentations and adaptations, as well as nine essays on lesser-known aspects of Greene's work. Featuring new material from the recently expanded Graham Greene archive which will be of particular interest and relevance to Greene scholars, it also covers contents of other archives in the UK and elsewhere in a series of mini-essays.

The Life of Graham Greene Volume 1

Author : Norman Sherry
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473512131
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Graham Greene Volume 1 written by Norman Sherry and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unquestionably one of the greatest novelists of his time, Graham Greene had always guarded his privacy, remaining aloof, mysterious and unpredictable. Nonetheless, he took the surprising step of allowing Norman Sherry complete access to letter and diaries, and gave his consent to this full and frank biography in three volumes - the first of which takes Greene's life up to the beginning of the Second World War when he published some of his most remarkable work, including Journey Without Maps (1935), England Made Me (1935), A Gun for Sale (1936), Brighton Rock (1938) and The Confidential Agent (1939). At the heart of the story lies a remarkable series of letters Greene wrote to his wife, Vivien, for whose sake he became a Catholic. They show us an unknown, younger Greene, impassioned and romantic. Sherry also recounts in fascinating detail how Greene struggled to turn himself into a novelist and learn his craft, and follows his subject's pre-war footsteps to West Africa and Mexico, where he was able to penetrate far into the strange and alarming territory that Greene has made his own. The book that emerges is without doubt one of the most revealing literary biographies of the decade.

The End of the Affair

Author : Graham Greene
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504052471
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The End of the Affair written by Graham Greene and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graham Greene’s masterful novel of love and betrayal in World War II London is “undeniably a major work of art” (The New Yorker). Maurice Bendrix, a writer in Clapham during the Blitz, develops an acquaintance with Sarah Miles, the bored, beautiful wife of a dull civil servant named Henry. Maurice claims it’s to divine a character for his novel-in-progress. That’s the first deception. What he really wants is Sarah, and what Sarah needs is a man with passion. So begins a series of reckless trysts doomed by Maurice’s increasing romantic demands and Sarah’s tortured sense of guilt. Then, after Maurice miraculously survives a bombing, Sarah ends the affair—quickly, absolutely, and without explanation. It’s only when Maurice crosses paths with Sarah’s husband that he discovers the fallout of their duplicity—and it’s more unexpected than Maurice, Henry, or Sarah herself could have imagined. Adapted for film in both 1956 and 1999, Greene’s novel of all that inspires love—and all that poisons it—is “singularly moving and beautiful” (Evelyn Waugh).

Graham Greene

Author : Graham Greene
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393066425
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (664 download)

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Download or read book Graham Greene written by Graham Greene and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Judiciously edited and engagingly annotated, this collection of Greene's personal letters - including many that were unavailable to his official biographer - gives new perspective to a life that combined literary achievement, political action, espionage, travel, and romantic entanglement. Following Greene through joy and turmoil, from the gnarled and fissured forests of Indo-China to war-torn Sierra Leone, from the mountains of Switzerland to hotels in Havana, Richard Greene's superbly edited collection is a vivid portrait of a fascinating writer, a mercurial man of courage, wit, and passion."--BOOK JACKET.

Graham Greene

Author : Robert H. Miller
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813150523
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Graham Greene written by Robert H. Miller and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English novelist, short-story writer, playwright and journalist, Graham Greene was one of the most widely read novelist of the 20th-century, a superb storyteller. Adventure and suspense are constant elements in his novels and many of his books have been made into successful films. Although Greene was nominated several times as a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature, he never received the award. Graham Greene is a descriptive catalog of first editions of works by Greene, which are currently held in the collection of the University of Louisville. Arranged chronologically by title, Robert H. Miller, also includes letters, radio scripts, pamphlets, and subsequent editions of importance and scarcity.

May We Borrow Your Husband?

Author : Graham Greene
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504054024
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book May We Borrow Your Husband? written by Graham Greene and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of twelve disarmingly witty tales about the complexities of love and intimacy from “a storyteller of genius” (Evelyn Waugh). “The sense of the author at play dominates” Graham Greene’s entertaining anthology as the masterful British author looks at love, lies, vanity, mortality, romantic obsessions, and seduction from a dozen sharply observed perspectives (The New York Times). A bored faculty wife looking for a fling discovers something more illuminating than sex; a jaded writer who eavesdrops on a pair of hopeful lovers feels compelled to relieve them of their foolish ideals and ambitions; a widow and a divorcée commiserate in mourning for their lost men, only to rejoice in their freedom after two bottles of blanc de blancs; a young man devises a test of true love—to find a woman who won’t laugh at the absurd circumstances of his father’s death; and in the title story, an oblivious young bride honeymooning in Antibes encourages a friendship between a gay couple and her adventurous and handsome new husband.

The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene

Author : Richard Greene
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039365107X
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene written by Richard Greene and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Finalist for the 2022 Edgar Award A Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A vivid, deeply researched account of the tumultuous life of one of the twentieth century’s greatest novelists, the author of The End of the Affair. One of the most celebrated British writers of his generation, Graham Greene’s own story was as strange and compelling as those he told of Pinkie the Mobster, Harry Lime, or the Whisky Priest. A journalist and MI6 officer, Greene sought out the inner narratives of war and politics across the world; he witnessed the Second World War, the Vietnam War, the Mau Mau Rebellion, the rise of Fidel Castro, and the guerrilla wars of Central America. His classic novels, including The Heart of the Matter and The Quiet American, are only pieces of a career that reads like a primer on the twentieth century itself. The Unquiet Englishman braids the narratives of Greene’s extraordinary life. It portrays a man who was traumatized as an adolescent and later suffered a mental illness that brought him to the point of suicide on several occasions; it tells the story of a restless traveler and unfailing advocate for human rights exploring troubled places around the world, a man who struggled to believe in God and yet found himself described as a great Catholic writer; it reveals a private life in which love almost always ended in ruin, alongside a larger story of politicians, battlefields, and spies. Above all, The Unquiet Englishman shows us a brilliant novelist mastering his craft. A work of wit, insight, and compassion, this new biography of Graham Greene, the first undertaken in a generation, responds to the many thousands of pages of letters that have recently come to light and to new memoirs by those who knew him best. It deals sensitively with questions of private life, sex, and mental illness, and sheds new light on one of the foremost modern writers.

Shades of Greene

Author : Graham Greene
Publisher : Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN 13 : 9780140040234
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Shades of Greene written by Graham Greene and published by Penguin (Non-Classics). This book was released on 1977 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Our Man Down in Havana

Author : Christopher Hull
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 164313101X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Our Man Down in Havana written by Christopher Hull and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When U.S. immigration authorities deported Graham Greene from Puerto Rico in 1954, the British author made an unplanned visit to Havana and the former MI6 officer had stumbled upon the ideal setting for a comic espionage story. Three years later, he returned in the midst of Castro’s guerrilla insurgency against a U.S.-backed dictator to begin writing his iconic novel Our Man in Havana. Twelve weeks after its publication, in January 1959, the Cuban Revolution triumphed, soon transforming a capitalist playground into a communist stronghold.Combining biography, history, politics, and a measure of psychoanalysis, Our Man Down in Havana investigates the real story behind Greene’s fiction. It includes his many visits to a pleasure island that became a revolutionary island, turning his chance involvement into a political commitment. His Cuban novel describes an amateur agent who dupes his intelligence chiefs with invented reports about “concrete platforms and unidentifiable pieces of giant machinery.” With eerie prescience, Greene’s satirical tale had foretold the Cold War’s most perilous episode, the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.