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Häftad, Engelska, 2004
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'The novel that I love the most is The Quiet American' Ian McEwan, Sunday Times bestselling author of LessonsInto the intrigue and violence of 1950s Saigon comes CIA agent Alden Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'.As Pyle's naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as Fowler intervenes he wonders why: for the greater good, or something altogether more complicated?WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ZADIE SMITH**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
Inbunden, Svenska, 2025
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Första boken i Graham Greenes stora romankvartett
Den hänsynslöse gangstern Pinkie Brown är fast besluten att befästa sin position inom Brightons undre värld. Efter att i en brutal uppvisning av makt ha mördat journalisten Fred Hale inser Pinkie att den sextonåriga servitrisen Rose på egen hand kan få alla hans planer att falla samman. För att hindra det bestämmer sig Pinkie för att uppvakta henne och så småningom gifta sig med henne. Det leder till en komplicerad relation där makt, manipulation och känslor kolliderar. Samtidigt börjar den moraliskt drivna Ida Arnold komma Pinkie och hans gäng på spåren. Brighton Rock är den första av Graham Greenes romaner att ta sig an de komplexa katolska teman som kom att prägla flera av hans senare böcker. Det är också en av Greenes mest framgångsrika romaner, som sedan den publicerades 1938 åtskilliga gånger adapterats till teater, musikal och film. I översättning av Erik Lindegren.
GRAHAM GREENE [1904-1991] är en av Storbritanniens största romanförfattare genom tiderna. Hans författarskap kan delas in i två verk, romankvartetten som kommit att kallas »den katolska romanens guldstandard«: Brighton Rock, Makten & härligheten, Hjärtpunkten och Slutet på historien - och de politiska romanerna, som kommit att tillhöra världslitteraturens mest klassiska spionthrillers: Hemlig agent, Den tredje mannen, Den stillsamme amerikanen, Vår man i Havanna och Den mänskliga faktorn. Graham Greene var vid två tillfällen - 1961 och 1967 - en av huvudkandidaterna till Nobelpriset i litteratur.
Häftad, Svenska, 2016
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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'KVÄLLDen brittiska underrättelsetjänsten MI6:s man i Havanna är en före detta dammsugarförsäljare som heter Wormold. Motvilligt har han blivit hemlig agent, för pengarnas skull. För att göra sig viktig skickar han storstilade (falska) rapporter, inspirerade av en barnboksvariant av Shakespeares dramer. Så skickar han också skisser av massförstörelsevapen - egentligen föreställande dammsugardelar. Hans egen mardröm börjar när en efter en av lögnerna besannas.Vår man i Havanna [Our Man in Havana, 1958] är en svart komedi om underrättelsetjänsters villighet att tro på historier. Graham Greenes klassiska Kuba-roman utspelade sig före revolutionen men leken med temat missilinstallationer förebådar på ett märkligt vis Kubakrisen 1962.I översättning av Jane Lundblad och med ett nyskrivet förord av litteraturvetaren Oscar Jansson.Vår man i Havanna filmatiserades 1959 av Carol Reed (som även filmatiserade Greenes Den tredje mannen).GRAHAM GREENE [1902-1991] är en av Storbritanniens största romanförfattare genom tiderna. Hans författarskap kan delas in i två verk, romankvartetten som kommit att kallas »den katolska romanens guldstandard « - Brighton Rock, Makten och härligheten, Hjärtpunkten och Slutet på historien - och de politiska romanerna, som kommit att tillhöra världslitteraturens mest klassiska spionthrillers: Den stillsamme amerikanen, Vår man i Havanna, Den tredje mannen, Hemlig agent och Den mänskliga faktorn. Graham Greene var vid två tillfällen - 1961 och 1967 - en av huvudkandidaterna till Nobelpriset i litteratur.»Det är bra att läsa Greene i en tid när alla de eviga värden som för tillfället är på modet skrålar deliriskt på Twitter. Vi behöver hans skepticism, den tjuriga individualismen och sinnet för komplikationer.« | JENS CHRISTIAN BRANDT, DN»Greenes intriger må vara spänningsromanens eller kärleksromanens, spionromanens eller krigsromanens - men oavsett de yttre förvecklingarna vrider sig undantagslöst någon av de avgörande existentiella frågorna genom romanen som en obarmhärtig vass skruv.« | CRISTER ENANDER, SUNDSVALLS TIDNING
Inbunden, Svenska, 2020
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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 nedbrända, präster jagas av polis, militär och paramilitär. En av de sista i området som inte gett upp befinner sig på flykt från by till by, till fots eller på åsna. Över floder, förbi berg, genom skogar och vidsträckta fält. Hela tiden hack i häl rider den repressiva makten, ledd av en nitisk polislöjtnant som inte drar sig för att ta gisslan i de byar där prästen ryktas ha befunnit sig, och utan betänkligheter avrätta dem som envist håller munnen stängd. Övertygelse och tvivel, ideal och krass, våldsam verklighet. I Makten och härligheten finns alla Graham Greenes stora teman; mot bakgrund av ett kargt landskap suddas gränserna mellan god och ond ut, och gråzonernas drama växer. I svensk översättning av Erik Lindegren och med ett nyskrivet förord av författaren och kritikern Niklas Wahllöf.
GRAHAM GREENE [1904-1991] var en brittisk författare. Han verkade bland annat som journalist och filmkritiker och levde ett kringflackande liv. Under andra världskriget var han agent för MI6 i Afrika. Makten och härligheten [1940] utsågs av tidskriften Time till en av de hundra bästa engelskspråkiga romanerna. Makten och härligheten är den fjärde boken i Modernistas nyutgivning av Graham Greene.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
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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 him an extra income in return for a little spying, he is sorely tempted . . . But when the fake reports he’s been sending to London start to come true, Havana suddenly becomes a very dangerous place indeed.Both a brilliant Cold War thriller and hilarious work of satire, Our Man in Havana is Graham Greene’s classic tale of an accidental spy, and a truly gripping read.Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautifully bound gift editions of much loved classic titles.
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MONICA ALIThe 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 and jealousy two years later, Bendrix hires a private detective to follow Sarah, and slowly his love for her turns into an obsession.
Häftad, Engelska, 2001
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Raven is a ruthless assassin, a hired killer, whose cold-blooded murder of the Minister for War will have violent repercussions across Europe. As the nation prepares for battle, Raven goes on the run, hunted by the police and in search of the man who paid him in stolen banknotes, eventually unearthing the terrible truth behind his deadly assignment.
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
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Häftad, Engelska, 2004
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Major Henry Scobie serves as a police officer in a British West African colony during the Second World War, a devout Catholic torn between duty and love.Stationed in a coastal colonial outpost in wartime West Africa, 1940s, Scobie prides himself on his incorruptibility. Yet as merchant ships crowd the harbour and the war tightens its grip on the empire, his private life begins to unravel. His wife Louise longs to escape the heat and isolation of the colony, and Scobie, desperate to ease her suffering, borrows money from a corrupt trader – a compromise that entangles him in blackmail.When he falls in love with Helen Rolt, a young widow shattered by loss at sea, Scobie finds himself divided between compassion and betrayal. Each lie told to protect one-woman wounds another; each attempt at mercy becomes a sin against his faith. His Catholic conscience offers no comfort, only a harsher reckoning.Set against the uneasy hierarchies and racial tensions of a British West African colony during the Second World War, The Heart of the Matter is mid-twentieth-century historical fiction driven by moral conflict.
Häftad, Engelska, 2001
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'Graham Greene's masterpiece' John UpdikeDuring a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky priest', is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being shut off, his chances getting fewer. But compassion and humanity force him along the road to his destiny, reluctant to abandon those who need him, and those he cares for.'This is Greene at his raw and powerful best' Sunday Times
Inbunden, Svenska, 2016
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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, DNMaurice Bendrix och Sarah Miles har haft en hemlig relation i fyra år, när hon plötsligt överger honom, kort efter att Maurice varit nära att dödas i Blitzen 1944. Sarahs make Henry anförtror Maurice om att han misstänker hustrun för att vara otrogen. Maurice - ännu svartsjukare än maken - erbjuder sig att anlita en privatdetektiv för att reda ut saken. Så småningom står det klart för Maurice varför Sarah lämnade honom. Och det ändrar radikalt hans inställning till livet.Slutet på historien [The End of the Affair, 1951] är en tragisk kärleksroman utmynnande i frågan om vad som är större för människan än den enskildes lycka. En stor brittisk klassiker, här i översättning av Jane Lundblad. Slutet på historien har filmatiserats två gånger, 1955 och 1999.GRAHAM GREENE [1902-1991] är en av Storbritanniens största romanförfattare genom tiderna. Hans författarskap kan delas in i två verk, romankvartetten som kommit att kallas »den katolska romanens guldstandard « - Brighton Rock, Makten och härligheten, Hjärtpunkten och Slutet på historien - och de politiska romanerna, som kommit att tillhöra världslitteraturens mest klassiska spionthrillers: Den stillsamme amerikanen, Vår man i Havanna, Den tredje mannen, Hemlig agent och Den mänskliga faktorn. Graham Greene var vid två tillfällen - 1961 och 1967 - en av huvudkandidaterna till Nobelpriset i litteratur.»Greenes intriger må vara spänningsromanens eller kärleksromanens, spionromanens eller krigsromanens - men oavsett de yttre förvecklingarna vrider sig undantagslöst någon av de avgörande existentiella frågorna genom romanen som en obarmhärtig vass skruv.« | CRISTER ENANDER, SUNDSVALLS TIDNING»En av de bästa kärleksromaner jag har läst. En fantastisk bok.« | C-G KARLSSON, GO'KVÄLL»Grym och sorglig; grov och förfinad; rå och sublim. En berättelse som klingar uppriktigt om en tid präglad av svek men också ära; feghet men också hjältemod; tro och icke-tro.« | THE NEW YORK TIMES»En av de bästa, sannaste och mest gripande romanerna under min livstid.« | WILLIAM FAULKNER»Intensiv, genomträngande och oroande som en inkvisitors blick.« | JOHN UPDIKE»Unikt rörande och vacker.« | EVELYN WAUGH
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
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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 years at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, to travel to Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay, and a shiftless, twilight society of hippies, war criminals, CIA men that will help Henry come alive after a dull suburban life.VINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
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ONE OF FIVE NEW VINTAGE FUTURE CLASSIC READING GUIDE EDITIONSDuring a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky priest', is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being shut off, his chances getting fewer. But compassion and humanity force him along the road to his destiny, reluctant to abandon those who need him, and those he cares for.
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
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"The purser took the last landing-card in his hand and watched the passengers cross the wet quay, over a wilderness of rails and points, round the corners of abandoned trucks." As the Orient Express hurtles across Europe on its three-day journey from Ostend to Constantinople, its voyage binds together the lives of several of its passengers in a fateful interlock. The menagerie of characters includes Coral Musker, a beautiful chorus girl; Carleton Myatt, a rich Jewish businessman; Richard John, a mysterious and kind doctor returning to his native Belgrade; the spiteful journalist Mabel Warren; and Josef Grunlich, a cunning, murderous burglar. What happens to these strangers as they put on and take off their masks of identity and passion, all the while confessing, prevaricating, and reaching out to one another in the "veracious air" of the onrushing train, makes for one of Graham Greene's most exciting and suspenseful stories. Originally published in 1933, Orient Express was Greene's first major success. This Penguin Deluxe Edition features an introduction by Christopher Hitchens.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.
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
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A gangland murder draws a seaside town into fear and faith.Seventeen-year-old Pinkie Brown is a murderer. Sharp, devout, and certain of his own righteousness, he believes he can outwit both the police and the consequences of his actions.When Ida Arnold begins questioning the circumstances of a suspicious death, she sets out to uncover the truth behind it. Meanwhile Rose, young and trusting, binds herself to Pinkie in an act of love that pulls her further into danger.Set in 1930s Brighton, this literary crime novel about a teenage gangster examines sin, faith, and moral blindness. Greene’s spare prose strips violence of glamour, revealing instead the emptiness at its core.'I read Brighton Rock when I was about thirteen. One of the first lessons I took from it was that a serious novel could be an exciting novel - that the novel of adventure could also be the novel of ideas' Ian McEwan
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Brought to you by Penguin.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 fondness for drink - is kidnapped by rebels in a case of mistaken identity. The young but world-weary Doctor Eduardo Plarr, is left to pick up the pieces and secure Fortnum''s release, wading through a sea of incompetence and unearthing corruption among authorities and revolutionaries in the process.First published in 1973, The Honorary Consul was one of Greene''s own favourites of his works and is regarded amongst his finest novels, with Plarr perhaps the most moving and convincing figure in his fiction.''Perhaps the most enduring novel that even he has given us'' Daily Mail© Graham Greene 1973 (P) Penguin Audio 2025
Häftad, Engelska, 2001
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Set in a world that has lost the comfort of national identity and individualism, this is a powerful and unusual love story told by one of the 20th century's greatest writers.Anthony Farrant is back home after lying and cheating his way through one job after another in the Far East. When his adoring sister Kate sets him up with a role in Stockholm as bodyguard to her boss and lover, megalomaniac financier Krogh, Anthony seems set on a path to redemption. But when he receives orders from Krogh that offend his own sense of decency, he begins to leak information to a down-at-heel journalist: a decision that will cost Anthony much more than just his job.First published in 1935, England Made Me is an early Greene novel and helped to cement his reputation as an important and exciting new writing talent.'Graham Greene has wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the top ranks of world literature' John le Carré
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
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Häftad, Engelska, 2000
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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 our life and times.
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
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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 TelegraphCarleton Myatt meets Coral Musker, a naïve English chorus girl, aboard the Orient Express as it heads across Europe to Constantinople. As their relationship develops, they find themselves caught up in the fates of the other passengers and drawn into a web of espionage, murder and lies.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
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Brighton Rock
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
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Pinkie Brown, a neurotic teenage gangster wielding a razor blade and a bottle of sulfuric acid, commits a brutal murder – but it does not go unnoticed. Rose, a naive young waitress at a rundown cafe, has the unwitting power to destroy his crucial alibi, and Ida Arnold, a woman bursting with easy certainties about what is right and wrong, has made it her mission to bring about justice and redemption.Set among the seaside amusements and dilapidated boarding houses of Brighton’s pre-war underworld, Brighton Rock by Graham Greene is both a gritty thriller and a study of a soul in torment. A classic of modern literature, it maps out the strange border between piety and savagery.This beautiful Macmillan Collector’s Library edition of Brighton Rock features an introduction by the poet, biographer and editor, Professor Richard Greene.Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector’s Library are books to love and treasure.
Häftad, Engelska, 1993
222 kr
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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 mysteriously broadcasts all sorts of sounds; others are wryly sad—a youthful indiscretion catches up with Mr Carter in 'The Blue Film'. They can be deeply shocking: in 'The Destructors' a gang of children systematically destroys a man's house. Yet others are hauntingly tragic—a strange relationship between twins that reaches its climax at a children's party. Whatever the mood, each one is a compelling entertainment and unmistakably the work of one of the finest storytellers of the century.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.
Häftad, Svenska, 2016
299 kr
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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 författare, oavsett språk.« | WASHINGTON POST Den 32-årige amerikanen Alden Pyle hittas mördad under en bro i Saigon med ett sår i bröstet. Hans död beskrivs som ett mysterium av den brittiske krigskorrespondenten Thomas Fowler. Men de båda männen kände varandra. Pyle var officiellt i Indokina för en statlig amerikansk hjälporganisation; i det tysta en politisk agent och terrorist, med uppdrag att skapa konflikt mellan lokalbefolkningen och kommunisterna. Fowler är en opiumrökande cyniker, men har åtminstone empati nog att känna avsky när terrorismen drabbar oskyldiga.Den stillsamme amerikanen [The Quiet American, 1955] är en av världslitteraturens mest klassiska spionromaner. Men också den mest verklighetsnära av Graham Greenes thrillerromaner. Boken utspelar sig under Indokinakrigets slutfas i Vietnam, där Greene själv var korrespondent för The Times. I Den stillsamme amerikanen profeteras utgången av USA:s Vietnamkrig, innan det ens börjat.I översättning av Jane Lundblad och med ett nyskrivet förord av litteraturvetaren Oscar Jansson.GRAHAM GREENE [1902-1991] är en av Storbritanniens största romanförfattare genom tiderna. Hans författarskap kan delas in i två verk, romankvartetten som kommit att kallas »den katolska romanens guldstandard « - Brighton Rock, Makten och härligheten, Hjärtpunkten och Slutet på historien - och de politiska romanerna, som kommit att tillhöra världslitteraturens mest klassiska spionthrillers: Den stillsamme amerikanen, Vår man i Havanna, Den tredje mannen, Hemlig agent och Den mänskliga faktorn. Graham Greene var vid två tillfällen - 1961 och 1967 - en av huvudkandidaterna till Nobelpriset i litteratur.»Greenes intriger må vara spänningsromanens eller kärleksromanens, spionromanens eller krigsromanens - men oavsett de yttre förvecklingarna vrider sig undantagslöst någon av de avgörande existentiella frågorna genom romanen som en obarmhärtig vass skruv.« | CRISTER ENANDER, SUNDSVALLS TIDNING»I mitt tycke en av de absolut största 1900-talsförfattarna.« | C-G KARLSSON, GO'KVÄLL»Graham Greene är den främste skildraren av 1900-talsmänniskans medvetande och farhågor.« | WILLIAM GOLDING
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
213 kr
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"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look ahead..." "This is a record of hate far more than of love," writes Maurice Bendrix in the opening passages of The End of the Affair, and it is a strange hate indeed that compels him to set down the retrospective account of his adulterous affair with Sarah Miles. Now, a year after Sarah's death, Bendrix seeks to exorcise the persistence of his passion by retracing its course from obsessive love to love-hate. At first, he believes he hates Sarah and her husband, Henry. Yet as he delves further into his emotional outlook, Bendrix's hatred shifts to the God he feels has broken his life, but whose existence at last comes to recognize. Originally published in 1951, The End of the Affair was acclaimed by William Faulkner as "for me one of the best, most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody's language." This Penguin Deluxe Edition features an introduction by Michael Gorra.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.
Häftad, Engelska, 2002
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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; Conrad, a paranoid clerk; Mr Surrogate, a rich Fabian; Condor, a pathetic journalist feeding on fantasies; pretty, promiscuous Kay - all have a part to play in his fate.
Häftad, Engelska, 2002
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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 captivating account of his arduous 350-mile journey on foot - a great adventure which took him from the border with Sierra Leone to the Atlantic coast at Grand Bassa - is as much a record of one young man's self-discovery as it is a striking insight into one of the few areas of Africa untouched by Western colonisation. Journey Without Maps is regarded as a masterclass in travel writing.WITH A FOREWORD BY TIM BUTCHER AND AN INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUX'One of the best travel books this century' Independent
Häftad, Engelska, 1999
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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 encounters with psychoanalysis and Russian roulette, his marriage and conversion to Catholicism, and how he rashly resigned from The Times when his first novel, The Man Within was published in 1929. A Sort of Life reveals, brilliantly and compellingly, a life lived and an art obsessed by 'the dangerous edge of things'.
Häftad, Engelska, 1999
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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 way, through Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay... Accompanying his aunt, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society: mixing with hippies, war criminals, CIA men; smoking pot, breaking all the currency regulations and eventually coming alive after a dull suburban lifetime.
Häftad, Engelska, 1999
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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 the last days of the French, Kenya during the Mau Mau rebellion. With ironic delight he recalls his time in the British Secret Service in Africa, and his brief involvement in Hollywood. He writes, as only he can, about people and places, about faith, doubt, fear and, not least, the trials and craft of writing.
Häftad, Engelska, 2000
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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 Poopy Travis's honeymoon husband. Which leaves him free to fall in love with Poopy himself. A widow and a divorcee tipsily discuss the inadequacy of men, deciding that women have much more to offer each other by way of variety in sexual love. A wife holidays alone in Jamaica's cheap season idly hoping for excitement but finding the only man she can have an affair with is far too old and frightened of the dark.. Affairs, obsessions, grand passions and tiny ardours this collection contains some of Greene's saddest observations on the hilarity of sex.