Graham Greene
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Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This eyewitness account of religious and political persecution in 1930s Mexico inspired the British novelist's masterpiece, The Power and the Glory (John Updike). In 1938, Graham Greene, a burgeoning convert to Roman Catholicism, was commissioned to expose the anticlerical purges in Mexico by President Plutarco Elias Calles. Churches had been destroyed, peasants held secret masses in their homes, religious icons were banned, and priests disappeared....
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Series
Everyman's library volume 146
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English
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A teenage sociopath rises to power in Britain's criminal underworld in this "brilliant and uncompromising" thriller ( The New York Times ). Seventeen-year-old Pinkie Brown, raised amid the casual violence and corruption in the dire prewar Brighton slums, has left his final judgment in the hands of God. On the streets, impelled by his own twisted moral doctrine, he leads a motley pack of gangsters whose sleazy little rackets have most recently erupted...
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English
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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...
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English
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"From first page to last ... an engrossing novel" of betrayal and espionage on a colonial outpost during World War II ( The New York Times ). In a British colony in West Africa, Henry Scobie is a pious and righteous man of modest means enlisted with securing borders. But when he's passed over for a promotion as commissioner of police, the humiliation hits hardest for his wife, Louise. Already oppressed by the appalling climate, frustrated in a loveless...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The illicit affair of a devout woman in London ignites a shattering family crisis in the author's "ruthlessly honest" first play ( The Guardian ). In a dour Holland Park house with rooms and secrets long shuttered live three unyielding forces for morality: rigidly religious sisters Helen and Teresa, and their brother, a Roman Catholic priest. Into the lives of this insular trio comes their young grandniece, Rose Pemberton, following the death of her...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In postwar London, a boy is drawn into a labyrinth of personal betrayals, intrigue, love, and revolution: "In short, a tremendous yarn" (Paul Theroux). On his twelfth birthday, Victor Baxter is spirited away from boarding school by a stranger known only as the Captain who claims to have won him in a backgammon game with the boy's diabolical father. Settling into a new life in a dire London flat, Victor becomes the willing ward of his mysterious abductor...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A delicious ... champagne cocktail of a stage comedy about a sporting British couple's maritaland extramaritalpropositions ( New York Herald Tribune ). Victor Rhodes, a hearty and amiable dentist in North London, has what he thinks is a happy marriage. It's stable, routine, and comfortably platonic. Five years and counting, his wife, Mary, feels the same way. That's why she's taken a secret lovertheir good friend, Clive Root, an antiquarian bookseller...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
From "the most ingenious, inventive, and exciting of our novelists": Three brilliant novels exploring colonialism, faith, and the mysteries of desire (V. S. Pritchett). This collection features three classic novels that explore Graham Greene's most important themes: Catholicism, international intrigue, and the never-ending struggle to know oneself. From West Africa to Vietnam to Mexico, these stories prove that "no serious writer of [the twentieth]...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In Greene's "magnificent tour-de-force among tales of international intrigue," rival agents engage in a deadly game of cat and mouse in prewar England ( The New York Times ). D., a widowed professor of Romance literature, has arrived in Dover on a peaceful yet important mission. He's to negotiate a contract to buy coal for his country, one torn by civil war. With it, there's a chance to defeat fascist influences. Without it, the loyalists will fail....
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The British author embarks on an awe-inspiring trek through 1930s West Africa in " one of the best travel books [of the twentieth] century " ( The Independent ). When Graham Greene left Liverpool in 1935 for what was then an Africa unmarked by colonization, it was to leave the known transgressions of his own civilization behind for those unknown. First by cargo ship, then by train and truck through Sierra Leone, and finally on foot, Greene embarked...
11) A Gun for Sale
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Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A detective and a chorus girl stalk the shadows of a murderer in this thriller from "a pioneer of the modern mood we now think of as noir" ( LA Weekly ). Born out of a brutal childhood, Raven is an assassin for hire whose latest hit -- a government minister -- is one calculated to ignite a war. When the most wanted man in England is paid off in marked bills, he also becomes the easiest to track -- and police detective Jimmy Mather has the lead. But...
12) The Comedians
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Strangers in Port-au-Prince are united in the corruption, fear, and revolt of Duvalier-era Haiti in "the most interesting novel of [Greene's] career" ( The Nation ). Haiti, under the rule of Papa Doc and his menacing paramilitary, the Tontons Macoute, has long been abandoned by tourists. Now it is home to corrupt capitalists, foreign ambassadors and their lonely wives -- and a small group of enterprising strangers rocking into port on the Dutch cargo...
13) Loser Takes All
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Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A Monte Carlo honeymoon becomes a gamble in Graham Greene's "superbly well told" comedy of love, marriage, and risk (J. B. Priestley). A modest London accountant on a budget, Mr. Bertram has settled on a honeymoon at the seaside resort of Bournemouth with his fiancée, Cary. However, Bertram's boss, the solicitous Herbert Dreuther, won't hear of anything so common. Bertram and Cary are to be married in Monte Carlo, after which they'll be Dreuther's...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
With his sheer mastery of narrative, the British novelist takes a detour into the uncanny and wondrously absurd in these compelling stories ( The Guardian ). An ambitious departure for an author renowned for his realism, this collection of short fiction collectively ... [engages] in a reconnaissance through the dustier reaches of man's experience with [the] spectres of doubt, defeat, failure and paradox ( Kirkus Reviews ). In Under the Garden, William...
15) A Burnt-Out Case
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A famous architect struggling with a crisis of faith escapes to a leper colony in the Congo, in Graham Greene's "greatest novel" ( Time ). Querry is a world-renowned architect noted for his magnificent churches, each designed not for the glory of God, but for the satisfaction of self. Suddenly infected with indifference, he has abandoned his pursuit of pleasure. Now he has reached the end of desire at the end of the world -- a colony of lepers in...