books by Graham Greene

books by Graham Greene

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Graham Greene

Complete Short Stories (Penguin Classics)

Graham Greene

Penguin Classics, 2005

A kaleidoscope of human faiths
This edition features all the short stories written by the author. Here is a small selection of those I've enjoyed most. In "Under The Garden" William Wilditch, after spending a long time abroad, is now visiting the family house, Winton Hall, which he hasn't seen ...

The Heart of the Matter

Graham Greene

Vintage Classics, 2004

Green's tragic masterpiece
It's hard for me to review The Heart of the Matter without mentioning The Power and the Glory, so I won't even try. While many people think The Power and the Glory is Greene's tragic masterpiece, I think the case could be made for this book. In a way, The Heart of the ...

The End of the Affair (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Graham Greene

Penguin Classics, 2004

Enjoying a woman with Love -- the only way
Written in four parts, this book commences with the "affair" proceeds in part two to the "end", enlightens you in part three by reading "her" diary, and ends with Greek-tragedy-like conclusion which assuredly will put any reader to tears. Greene manipulates the ...

Travels with My Aunt (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Graham Greene

Penguin Classics, 2004

"and I envied him his inexplicable quality of drawing women's love."
Another well-written novel by Graham Greene, "Travels With My Aunt" is a complete entertainment. "Travels" is Greene's less well-known novel. When discussing Graham Greene one thinks of "The Power and the Glory", "The End of the Affair", "The Heart of the Matter", and ...

Journey Without Maps (Penguin Classics)

Graham Greene

Penguin Classics, 2006

Found what he went looking for and more
Graham Greene was weary and appalled by the world atrocities of the early 20th century. He decided to go looking for life as basic and unspoiled as it was in the beginning. He chose to do so in Liberia, the African nation that had always been under black rule and not ...

Our Man in Havana (Penguin Classics)

Graham Greene

Penguin Classics, 2007

a pleasure
Nice to see this classic in print again. Hitchen's insightful forward adds to the pleasure of reading Greene's wonderful "entertainment" again. If you haven't read it yet, do so now!

The Quiet American (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Graham Greene

Penguin Classics, 2004

I was a reporter, I had no real opinions about anything
So said the main character (and narrator) Fowler about himself in an attempt to thwart his promotion to the position of editor, away from the French war in Indo China, and his mistress Phuong. And a true assessment of himself it may have been, if things had ...

The Power and the Glory (Penguin Classics)

Graham Greene

Penguin Classics, 2003

A David Attenborough of the literary world.
Like Mr. Attenborough, Graham Green has roamed the world. His interests were not primarily plants and animals, but representatives of the human species, often those profoundly flawed. His novels are set in Vietnam, Sierra Leone, Haiti, Cuba, Mexico, and more. His ...

The Spy's Bedside Book
Graham Greene, Hugh Greene

Bantam, 2008

For everyone who?s ever wondered what it really takes to be a spy, legendary author Graham Greene ( The Third Man, The Quiet American ) and his brother Hugh have compiled this irresistible selection of fiction, memoir, and tricks of the trade straight from the all-time masters of espionage. Here is a perfectly safe way to discover the dangerous ...

Brighton Rock

Graham Greene

Penguin Classics, 2004

An interesting mix of theology and gangster drama.
Graham Green always insisted that he was a "writer who was Catholic" rather than a "Catholic writer", which he was often pigeonholed as. Regardless, he frequently incorporated Catholic themes into his writing, all the more interesting because he was not born into the ...

Orient Express (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Graham Greene

Penguin Classics, 2004

Orient Express is an exciting Hitchcock like journey from Ostend to Istanbul
Graham Greene the eminent British novelist published this minor, suspensful and entertaining work in 1932. In Great Britain the novel is entitled "Stamboul Train". The novel is short but has a murder and interesting characters to keep your attention. The characters are ...

The Ministry of Fear: An Entertainment (Penguin Classics)

Graham Greene

Penguin Classics, 2005

A complex entertainment
Arthur Rowe, an inhabitant of wartime London during the Blitz with a terrible secret, visits a fair one day on a lark, setting in motion a chain of events that will thrust him into a shadowy world where nobody, not even oneself, is quite what they seem. Graham Greene ...

The Comedians (Penguin Classics)

Graham Greene

Penguin Classics, 2005

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER
This is a late review and I won't go over what has already been said about this novel. Papa Doc's reign of terror is now historical fact. But if one reads this tight political thriller and one of Greene's best, you can see history repeating itself in the not too recent ...

The Lawless Roads (Penguin Classics)

Graham Greene

Penguin Classics, 2006

The Horrors of Mexico
The Lawless Roads is the second non-fiction travel book of Greene's that I've read, and the other, Journey Without Maps was also a great book about travel in Africa. Greene is a brilliant travel writer; he makes detailed observations about the countryside, people, and ...

My Silent War: The Autobiography of a Spy

Kim Philby

Modern Library, 2002

WHERE SHALL THE TRAITOR REST?
Treason tends to get rather an unflattering press, however successful and elegant-minded the traitor. The basic question of loyalty goes back, I guess, to time immemorial. Moral philosophers have flailed at it incessantly, all to no purpose whatsoever in my own view. ...