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OverviewA wide-ranging anthology features autobiographical and critical material on the English writer, as well as a representative selection of his fiction, including the novels The Third Man and The Heart of the Matter, short stories, and additional novel excerpts, along with travel writings, literary essays, autobiographical reflections, and more. Repri Full Product DetailsAuthor: Graham Greene , Philip StratfordPublisher: Penguin Putnam Inc Imprint: Penguin USA Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 19.40cm Weight: 0.425kg ISBN: 9780143039181ISBN 10: 0143039180 Pages: 560 Publication Date: 25 January 2005 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"The Portable Graham GreeneIntroduction Principal Dates, Travels, Books Bibliographical Notes I. Reminiscences Editor's Preface Primary Symbols The Future Strikes Life on the Border Russian Roulette First Travels A Salmon Tea Journey Back A Discovery Return Africa Revisited II. Fiction Editor's Preface The End of the Party Minty's Day The Innocent A Marriage Proposal The Prison Cell The Heart of the Matter The Third Man The Destructors A Small Affair A Shocking Accident The Signing-Up of 59200/5 The Blessing Cheap in August Travel Tips from Aunt Augusta The Wedding Reception Monsignor Quixote and Sancho on Doubt III. Criticism Editor's Preface The Lesson of the Master From Feathers to Iron Rider Haggard's Secret Francois Mauriac The Redemption of Mr. Joyboy Ford Madox Ford Frederick Rolfe: Edwardian Inferno ""Sore Bones; Much Headache"" John Gerard The Novelist and the Short Story IV. Commitments Editor's Preface Two Statements on Commitment Convenience and Morality The Last Pope Colette's Funeral Rites Unholy Waugh A Superstition to Live By Slide into Barbarism Letter to a West German Friend The Daniel-Sinyavsky Trial Shame of the Catholics, Shame of the English What's Wrong with the Gospels? A Misguided Pope The Great Spectacular The Meeting in the Kremlin The Virtue of Disloyalty"ReviewsAuthor InformationGraham 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 novelist with his fourth book, Orient Express, in 1932. In 1935, he trekked across northern Liberia, his first experience in Africa, recounted in A Journey Without Maps (1936). He converted to Catholicism in 1926, an edifying decision, and reported on religious persecution in Mexico in 1938 in The Lawless Roads, which served as a background for his famous The Power and the Glory, one of several “Catholic” novels (Brighton Rock, The Heart of the Matter, The End of the Affair). During the war he worked for the British secret service in Sierra Leone; afterward, he began wide-ranging travels as a journalist, which were reflected in novels such as The Quiet American, Our Man in Havana, The Comedians, Travels with My Aunt, The Honorary Consul, The Human Factor, Monsignor Quixote, and The Captain and the Enemy. In addition to his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, two books of autobiography—A Sort of Life and Ways of Escape—two biographies, and four books for children. He also contributed hundreds of essays and film and book reviews to The Spectator and other journals, many of which appear in the late collection Reflections. Most of his novels have been filmed, including The Third Man, which the author first wrote as a film treatment. Graham Greene was named Companion of Honour and received the Order of Merit among numerous other awards. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |