Inspirational Authors: Graham Greene
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The Ministry of Fear: An Entertainment (Penguin Classics)
- ASIN: 0143039113
- ISBN: 0143039113
- Brand: Greene, Graham/ Furst, Alan (INT)
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
"A master thriller and a remarkable portrait of a twisted character." —Time For Arthur Rowe, the trip to the charity fête was a joyful step back into adolescence, a chance to forget the nightmare of the Blitz and the aching guilt of having mercifully murdered his sick wife. He was surviving alone, outside the war, until he happened to win a c... [Read More]
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The Quiet American (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
- ASIN: 0143039024
- ISBN: 0143039024
- Brand: Penguin Books
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused," Graham Greene's narrator Fowler remarks of Alden Pyle, the eponymous "Quiet American" of what is perhaps the most controversial novel of his career. Pyle is the brash young idealist sent out by W... [Read More]
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The Power and the Glory (Penguin Classics)
- ASIN: 0143107550
- ISBN: 0143107550
- Brand: Penguin Books
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, in a new edition commemorating its 75th anniversary Seventy-five years ago, Graham Greene published The Power and the Glory, a moralist thriller that traces a line of influence back to Dostoyevsky and forward to Cormac McCarthy. Named one of the 100 best novels of the twentieth century by Time... [Read More]
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The End of the Affair (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
- ASIN: 0142437980
- ISBN: 0142437980
- Brand: Penguin Books
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
"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... [Read More]
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Journey Without Maps (Penguin Classics)
- ASIN: 0143039725
- ISBN: 0143039725
- Brand: Greene, Graham/ Theroux, Paul (INT)
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
His mind crowded with vivid images of Africa, Graham Greene set off in 1935 to discover Liberia, a remote and unfamiliar republic founded for released slaves. Now with a new introduction by Paul Theroux, Journey Without Maps is the spellbinding record of Greene's journey. Crossing the red-clay terrain from Sierra Leone to the coast of Grand Bassa w... [Read More]
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Brighton Rock (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
- ASIN: 0142437972
- ISBN: 0142437972
- Brand: Greene, Graham/ Coetzee, J. M. (INT)
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
"Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him..." Graham Greene's chilling exposé of violence and gang warfare in the pre-war underworld is a classic of its kind. Pinkie, a teenage gangster on the rise, is devoid of compassion or human feeling, despising weakness of both the spirit and the flesh. Responsib... [Read More]
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Twenty-One Stories (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
- ASIN: 0140185348
- ISBN: 0140185348
- Brand: Penguin Classics
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
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 ... [Read More]
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Complete Short Stories (Penguin Classics)
- ASIN: 0143039105
- ISBN: 0143039105
- Brand: Penguin Books
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
The complete stories of a 20th century master of fictionAffairs, obsessions, ardors, fantasy, myth, legends, dreams, fear, pity, and violence—this magnificent collection of stories illuminates all corners of the human experience. Including four previously uncollected stories, this new complete edition reveals Graham Greene in a range of contrasti... [Read More]
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Travels with My Aunt (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
- ASIN: 0143039008
- ISBN: 0143039008
- Brand: Greene, Graham/ Emerson, Gloria (INT)
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
"I met Aunt Augusta for the first time at my mother's funeral..." Described by Graham Greene as "the only book I have written just for the fun of it," Travels with My Aunt is the story of Hanry Pulling, a retired and complacent bank manager who meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral.... [Read More]
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The Comedians (Penguin Classics)
- ASIN: 0143039199
- ISBN: 0143039199
- Brand: Greene, Graham
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
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 confidence man—these are the “comedians” of Greene’s title. Hiding behind their actors’ masks, they hesitate on the edge of life. Th... [Read More]
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The Heart of the Matter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
- ASIN: 0142437999
- ISBN: 0142437999
- Brand: Penguin Classics
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
“Wilson sat on the balcony of the Bedford Hotel with his bald pink knees thrust against the ironwork..." Graham Greene's masterpiece, The Heart of the Matter, tells the story of a good man enmeshed in love, intrigue, and evil in a West African coastal town. Scobie is bound by strict integrity to his role as assistant police commissioner and by s... [Read More]
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Ways of Escape
- ASIN: 0099282593
- ISBN: 0099282593
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: VINTAGE (RAND)
Ways of Escape
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A Burnt-Out Case (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
- ASIN: 0140185399
- ISBN: 0140185399
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Querry, a world-famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a "burnt-out case", a leper who has gone through a stage of mutilation. However, as Querry loses himself in work for t... [Read More]
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The Third Man and The Fallen Idol (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
- ASIN: 014018533X
- ISBN: 014018533X
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
The Third Man is Greene's brilliant recreation of post-war Vienna, a city of desolate poverty occupied by four powers. Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless in Vienna to visit his old friend and hero Harry Lime. Harry is dead, but the circumstances surrounding his death are highly suspicious, and his reputation, at the very leas... [Read More]
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Downton Abbey: Original UK Version Episode 3
- ASIN: B004KAVN7A
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Vertical Man: The Human Being in the Catholic Novels of Graham Greene, Sigrid Undset, and Georges Bernanos
- ASIN: 1901157016
- ISBN: 1901157016
- Manufacturer: Saint Austin Pr
Catholicism has traditionally embraced both a clearly delineated belief in God and an unique view of human nature. Over the past half century, the traditional Catholic concept of man as a creature in an individual relationship with his Creator ("vertical man") has been challenged by many dissatisfied theologians and writers. For many people today, ... [Read More]
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The Heart of the Matter ; Orient Express ; A Burnt-out Case ; The Third Man ; The Quiet American ; Loser Takes All ; The Power and the Glory
- ASIN: 0905712013
- ISBN: 0905712013
- Brand: Brand: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
- Manufacturer: Heinemann/Octopus
The Heart of the Matter ; Orient Express ; A Burnt-out Case ; The Third Man ; The Quiet American ; Loser Takes All ; The Power and the Glory
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Our Man in Havana
- ASIN: 0142438006
- ISBN: 0142438006
- Brand: Penguin Books
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
MI6’s man in Havana is Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Charles Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. Then his stories start coming disturbingly true… First published in ... [Read More]
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A Soldier Finds Grace ***Large Print Edition***: A Clean Christian Military Romance
- ASIN: 1542811511
- ISBN: 1542811511
- Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
A touching military Christian romance story set during World War II *** LARGE PRINT EDITION*** Matthew Finley and William Sawyer have become fast friends as they face the realities of being US soldiers in 1944 Germany. One dark, cloudy night, with everything to lose, they face an enemy-populated Hürtgen Forest. But Matthew has brought a weapon mo... [Read More]
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Our Man in Havana
- ASIN: B07CMKNQ3G
- Manufacturer: Open Road Media
A hapless salesman in Cuba is recruited into Cold War spy games in Greene’s classic “comical, satirical, atmospherical” novel (The Daily Telegraph). James Wormold, a cash-strapped vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana, finds the answer to his prayers when British Intelligence offers him a lucrative job as an undercover agent. To keep the check... [Read More]
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