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» Slutet på historien och Den stillsamme amerikanen är mörka, förtvivlade romaner. Det märkliga är hur roligt det är att bege sig in i det där mörkret.« | JENS CHRISTIAN BRANDT, DN Maurice Bendrix och Sarah Miles har haft en hemlig relation i fyra...

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»Graham Greenes stora mästerverk.«¿| John Updike, The New York Review of Books¿ Mexiko, 1930-tal. Efter revolutionen råder starka antiklerikala stämningar och i delstater som Tabasco är religionen i princip förbjuden. Kyrkorna är stängda eller ned...

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»Graham Greene är den främste skildraren av 1900-talsmänniskans medvetande och farhågor.« | WILLIAM GOLDING »En av världens största författare, oavsett språk.« | WASHINGTON POST »En fullständigt absurd historia. Väldigt rolig.« | C-G KARLSSON, GO'...

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'The novel that I love the most is The Quiet American' Ian McEwan, Sunday Times bestselling author of Lessons Into the intrigue and violence of 1950s Saigon comes CIA agent Alden Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through ...

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Gripping, terrifying, an unputdownable read. Discover Graham Greene's most iconic novel. A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retrib...

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOOD. Scobie, a police officer serving in a wartime West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he b...

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A classic espionage thriller from master storyteller Graham Greene 'One of the most important British writers of the twentieth century - he brought something undeniably new to fiction' Daily Telegraph Carleton Myatt meets Coral Musker, a naïve Eng...

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En av tidernas mest klassiska spionromaner » Slutet på historien och Den stillsamme amerikanen är mörka, förtvivlade romaner. Det märkliga är hur roligt det är att bege sig in i det där mörkret.« | JENS CHRISTIAN BRANDT, DN »En av världens största...

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Life in pre-revolutionary Cuba is not easy and James Wormold, a failing vacuum cleaner salesman, is struggling to fund the increasingly lavish lifestyle of his manipulative sixteen year-old daughter, Milly. So when an enigmatic Englishman offers h...

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MONICA ALI The love affair between Maurice Bendrix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. After a chance meeting rekindles his love a...

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Greene takes us on a wild, unconventional and enlightening voyage with an ordinary, retired bank manager and his eccentric, daring aunt. Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty ...

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The iconic writer's travel log from the uncharted shores of West Africa. Leaving Europe for the first time in his life, Graham Greene set out in 1935 to discover Liberia, then a virtually unmapped republic on the shores of West Africa. This captiv...

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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 confide...

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'Manages to say more about love, hate, happiness, grief, immortality, greed and the disgustingly rich than most contemporary English novels three times the length' The Times Doctor Fischer despises the human race. A millionaire with a taste for sa...

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A gripping tragicomedy of a bungled kidnapping in a provincial Argentinean town, considered to be one of Greene's finest novels. In a provincial Argentinian community, Charley Fortnum - a British consul with dubious authority and a notorious fondn...

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Discover Graham Greene s blackly comic and timely espionage thriller, set amid the vice and squalor of pre-revolutionary Havana. British Intelligence being sent up something rotten Daily Telegraph Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of ...

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»Graham Greene är den främste skildraren av 1900-talsmänniskans medvetande och farhågor.« | William Golding »En av världens största författare, oavsett språk.« | Washington Post Den brittiska underrättelsetjänsten MI6:s man i Havanna är en före de...

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With Sancho Panza, a deposed Communist mayor, his faithful Rocinate, an antiquated motorcar, Monsignor Quixote roams through modern-day Spain in a brilliant picaresque fable. Like Cervantes' classic, Monsignor Quixote offers enduring insights into...

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Drover, a Communist bus driver, is in prison, sentenced to death for killing a policeman during a riot at Hyde Park Corner. A battle for a reprieve with many participants ensues: the Assistant Commissioner, high-principled and over-worked; pretty,...

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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 enco...

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Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at his mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, his dahlias and the Major next door to travel her wa...

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With superb skill and feeling, Graham Greene retraces the experiences and encounters of his extraordinary life. His restlessness is legendary; as if seeking out danger, Greene travelled to Haiti during the nightmare rule of Papa Doc, Vietnam in th...

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Collected Essays contains nearly eighty essays, reviews and occasional pieces composed between novels, plays and travel books over four prolific decades. From Henry James and Somerset Maugham to Ho Chi Minh and Kim Philby, the range of subjects is...

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Author William Harris is spending the fag-end of the season at Antibes finishing his first attempt at historical biography, but he becomes more and more interested and involved in the antics of two homosexual interior decorators intent on stealing...

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR In a prison in Occupied France during the Second World War, the order is given that every tenth inmate is to be executed. Louis Chavel, a rich lawyer, draws the short straw and barters everything he owns to excha...

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Discover Graham Greene's blackly comic and timely espionage thriller, set amid the vice and squalor of pre-revolutionary Havana. 'British Intelligence being sent up something rotten' Daily Telegraph Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city o...

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