Graham Greene Libri

"L'ultima parola e, altri racconti" raccoglie le storie scritte da Graham Greene lungo un arco oltre sessant'anni, dal 1923 al 1989, e offre quindi una panoramica completa su tutta la produzione dell'autore, dagli esordi fino agli ultimi anni. Tra gli altri ritroviamo in queste pagine il primo racconto pubblicato da Greene sull'"Oxford Outlook", la rivista da lui diretta;"Assassinio per la ragione sbagliata", che testimonia il suo profondo interesse, costante lungo tutti gli anni Trenta, per il genere del giallo; "Il tenente morì per ultimo", ispirato a un episodio della Seconda guerra mondiale, e ancora "Il biglietto della lotteria", che riecheggia i romanzi maggiori "Strade senza legge" e "Il potere e la gloria".

La storia del romanzo si svolge durante la guerra e nel periodo immediatamente successivo a Londra. Lo scrittore Maurice Bendrix sta preparando un nuovo romanzo. Durante la raccolta di materiale e l'osservazione di una certa classe sociale, Bendrix incontra Sara, moglie di un funzionario ministeriale, Henry. Tra i due protagonisti nasce una relazione clandestina, ma Sara interrompe bruscamente il loro legame, trasformando l'amore appassionato di Bendrix in odio. Anni dopo, Bendrix incontra il marito di Sara e scopre il motivo del gesto di lei: durante un attacco aereo tedesco su Londra, la casa in cui si trovavano i due amanti viene colpita e Bendrix rimane sepolto sotto le macerie. Sara, credendo che Bendrix sia morto, prega Dio di restituirgli la vita, promettendo di rinunciare al suo amore peccaminoso. La purezza dell'amore di Sara porta alla conclusione dell'avventura. Quando Bendrix scopre la verità, è troppo tardi per rimediare: Sara muore di polmonite. Bendrix incontra Dio attraverso la propria sconfitta e si ritrova nel disperazione.

Durante gli ultimi giorni della dominazione francese in Indocina, un funzionario americano della Missione per gli Aiuti economici, di nome Pyle, viene assassinato in circostanze misteriose. Un cronista inglese suo amico, Fowler, tenta di venire a capo dell'enigma, ripercorrendo nella sua memoria le fasi del suo rapporto con l'ucciso, e delineandone a poco a poco il carattere, il modo di vivere e di pensare, le aspirazioni. Al cinismo di Fowler, oppiomane, miscredente, sarcastico, Pyle opponeva la sua candida "innocenza", la sua granitica fede negli ideali del "sogno americano", la sua assoluta sicurezza circa la legittimità della presenza degli Stati Uniti nei punti caldi del mondo. E proprio in nome di tali indiscutibili valori, non aveva esitato a rendersi complice di una serie di sanguinosi attentati, la cui responsabilità sarebbe dovuta ricadere sui comunisti, ormai alle porte di Saigon.

Un prete indegno, impuro, oggetto di una spietata caccia all'uomo nel Messico rivoluzionario, che perseguita e fucila i ministri di Dio.

In viaggio con la zia rappresenta un incontro tra i due tipi di romanzi di Greene, quello divertente e quello serio. Nonostante il titolo apparentemente semplice e le critiche che si concentrano principalmente sulla comicità e sulla burlesca natura del libro, si tratta di un grande romanzo. La zia settantacinquenne non è solo un personaggio vivace e umanamente contraddittorio, ma anche una sorta di Virgilio allegorico che guida il protagonista, Henry Pulling, attraverso un mondo ricco di situazioni assurde. Costretto a lasciare l'isolamento del conservatorismo vittoriano, Henry si avventura in un universo di pericoli e avventure, dove trova infine un nuovo senso di appartenenza. La sua esistenza da outsider, inizialmente tranquilla, si trasforma in un viaggio di scoperta e risveglio. Questo romanzo è uno dei pochi in cui l'autore evita di concludere con la morte del protagonista o con un matrimonio, offrendo invece un finale aperto e significativo.

Una pistola in vendita è un romanzo che ha l'andamento di un giallo, nel quale sin dall'inizio si sa chi è l'assassino e che gioca tutta la sua suspense sulla fuga di Raven, il killer, che vuole vendicarsi dei mandanti del delitto da lui appena commesso, i veri "cattivi" del libro.

Graham Greene, lo scrittore spia, scelse il treno per Istanbul, evocando il fascino dell’Orient Express, per mettere in scena un variegato campionario umano. Pubblicato nel 1932, questo romanzo rappresenta il primo grande successo dell’autore, precedendo di un anno il giallo di Agatha Christie. I passeggeri del treno di Greene, a differenza degli eleganti signori vendicativi di Christie, sono «un’umanità spaventata», come scrive Antonio Manzini. Uomini e donne viaggiano attraverso l’Europa e le proprie esistenze: alcuni affrontano per la prima volta l’amore, altri si confrontano con un idealismo in declino, tutti vittime e carnefici di un cinismo diffuso. Coral, una dolce ballerina, attende una compagnia in Turchia e intreccia una relazione carica di illusioni. Il dottor Czinner, comunista e sognatore, teme che il suo sacrificio non avrà risonanza. Mr. Myatt, un ebreo d'affari, deve regolare un conto con un funzionario infedele, mentre Mabel Warren, una giornalista cinica, è consapevole del tradimento imminente della sua amante. Il ladro Grünlich sfrutta la bontà altrui per salvarsi. In questo ingarbugliarsi di vite, il treno scorre come una macchina da presa, rivelando l’ineluttabile crudeltà umana e il crescente antisemitismo. Greene, con il suo umorismo impassibile, offre una rappresentazione senza tempo di una società complessa, rendendo il romanzo attuale e rilevante anche per l’umanità di oggi.

Una spy-story, in parte autobiografica. Il paesaggio esotico, il mistero, il tradimento, il personaggio dell'avventuriero, ma anche una singolare storia d'amore, piena di pudore e delicatezza.

Mr Potter is a proud shopkeeper with a busy shop, until one day a big superstore opens across the street. The new store has a delivery service so Mr Potter employs an old little horse bus to deliver his wares. But when the superstore's delivery cart is stolen there is only one little horse bus to save the day!

FRAUD, MURDER, POLITICAL INTRIGUE AND HORROR IN FOUR STORIES OF VICTORIAN VILLAINY. The Great Tontine, considered to be Hawley Smart's best book, concerns the unforeseen dangers of trying to make money in a lottery. Arthur Griffiths made a special study of the French police, and his sardonic amusement over their methods is evident in the classic train thriller The Rome Express. In the Fog, Richard Harding Davis's ingeniously plotted novel, is one of the very best accounts of foggy Victorian London. Haunted by figures of strange horror, Richard Marsh's The Beetle shed fascinating sidelights on forgotten aspects of the Victorian age. All in all, a splendid selection of works rescued from dusty oblivion - a rare treat!

Rollo Martins, arrives penniless to visit his friend and hero, Harry Lime. But Harry has died in suspicious circumstances, and the police are closing in on his associates. This is the story of a small boy caught up in the games that adults play.

Affairs, 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 contrasting moods, sometimes cynical and witty, sometimes searching and philosophical. Each of these forty-nine stories confirms V. S. Pritchett’s declaration that Greene is “a master of storytelling.”This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by Pico Iyer.

Graham Greene trained himself to wake four or five times during a night to record his dreams in a diary over a 25 year period. Before his death in 1991, he prepared this diary which provides readers with an insight into the world of Graham Greene.

A collection of eighteen short stories with cast & crew listing.

* The first book of Graham Greene's letters - the most intimate record we have of a life lived at the heart of modern history

A broad selection of Graham Greene's masterful short stories, including Cold War classic novella, The Third Man. Rollo Martins, a failing novelist, is invited to Vienna by his best friend, Harry Lime. The city he arrives in is unrecognisable -- torn apart by the Second World War and shared between the occupying Allies. What's more, Harry is dead, and the circumstances look suspicious... Determined to uncover the truth, Martins must pick through the rubble of this broken city in search of answers.

'The ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety' William Golding, Independent People are wary of Scobie, disturbed by his scrupulous honesty. A police officer serving in a war-torn West African state, he is immune to bribery. But when he falls in love, Scobie is forced into a betrayal of everything that he has ever believed in, with shattering results. Greene's anguished story of personal and spiritual confusion was made into a film, with Trevor Howard in perhaps his finest performance, playing the tormented Scobie. 'A superb storyteller with a gift for provoking controversy' The New York Times

Affairs, obsessions, ardours, fantasy, myth, legend and dream, fear, pity and violence — this magnificent collection of stories illuminates all corners of the human experience.Previously published in three volumes — May We Borrow Your Husband?, A Sense of Reality and Twenty-One Stories — these thirty-seven stories reveal Graham Greene in a range of contrasting moods, sometimes cynical and witty, sometimes searching and philosophical. Each one confirms V.S. Pritchett's statement that Greene is 'a master of storytelling'.

UPDATED AND EDITED WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JUDITH ADAMSON Whether reporting from the London cinema, Cotswolds villages, second-hand bookshops, war zones or political trouble spots, Graham Greene's novelistic gifts for detail, drama and compassionate curiosity provide unique and resonant insights into his life and times. To know war on any continent, read ‘A Memory of Indo-China’; to glimpse high political chicanery, read ‘The Great Spectacular’; to feel the flush and aftermath of revolutionary change, take up his pieces about Cuba. Reflections provides an extraordinary mirror on the twentienth century from one of its greatest observers.

Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power cuts. His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him, so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he's tempted. In return all he has to do is carry out a little espionage and file a few reports. But when his fake reports start coming true, things suddenly get more complicated and Havana becomes a threatening place.

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 are the Comedians of Graham Greene's title.

A Leak Is Traced To A Small Sub-Section Of Sis, Sparking Off The Inevitable Security Checks, Tensions And Suspicions. The Sort Of Atmosphere, Perhaps, Where Mistakes Could Be Made? For Maurice Castle, It Is The End Of The Line Anyway, And Time For Him To Retire To Live Peacefully With His African Wife, Sarah. To The Lonely, Isolated, Neurotic World Of The Secret Service, Graham Greene Brings His Brilliance And Perception, Laying Bare A Machine That Sometimes The Overlooks The Subtle And Secret Motivations That Impel Us.

A morally complex and mature work from a modern master IN THIS later novel by Graham Greene-featuring a new introduction-the author continues to explore moral and theological dilemmas through psychologically astute character studies and exciting drama on an international stage. The title character of Monsignor Quixote is a village priest, elevated to the rank of monsignor through a clerical error, who travels to Madrid accompanied by his best friend, Sancho, the Communist ex-mayor of the village, in Greene's lighthearted variation on Cervantes.

When Graham Greene passed away in 1991 at 86, he was recognized as a significant Catholic writer, known for his exploration of sin and challenging themes. His work in the British Catholic journal The Tablet allowed him to share both his literary endeavors and unconventional religious perspectives. Greene was particularly fascinated by martyrdom, and his experiences in 1930s Mexico, where Roman Catholicism faced severe oppression, inspired impactful journalism first published in The Tablet. This collection features four of his Mexico despatches: "Mexican Sunday," "A Catholic Adventurer and his Mexican Journal," "In Search of a Miracle," and "The Dark Virgin." Additionally, it includes a long essay on the Assumption, "Our Lady and Her The Only Figure of Perfect Love," from 1951, along with 26 book reviews for The Tablet's "Fiction Chronicle." Greene's reviews highlight his broad-mindedness, praising works by authors such as Ignazio Silone and Karel Čapek. This volume gathers Greene's contributions to The Tablet, much of which has not been published in fifty years. It also features "Two Friends," an essay detailing Greene's friendship with diplomat Peter Leslie, alongside previously unseen correspondence between them.

Doran, Amanda-Jane, Punchlines - 150 years of humorous writing in Punch. London, HarperCollins, 1991. 26cm. XII, 371 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective mylar. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes work by authors / comedians such as: John Bentjemen / Mary Dunn / Graham Greene / Melvyn bragg / Stevie Smith / William Boyd / Robert Graves / etc.

Affairs, obsessions, grand passions and tiny ardours are illuminated in this collection of 12 wryly humorous tales of love. Whether depicting the innocence and corruption of a honeymoon couple or the frustration of missed sexual opportunities, the stories expose a range of human frailties.

This collection of Graham Greene's letters to the press, begins in 1945 with a body of letters to "The Times". The letters dating from 1945 are supplemented by later ones to "The Independent", "The New Statesman", "Spectator" and "Le Monde".

At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of superior 20th-century writers that includes Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Isaac Babel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Cheever, Sean O'Faolain, Graham Greene, Robert Penn Warren, Colette, John Updike, Donald Barthelme, and James Thurber. (Regrettably, J. D. Salinger is not included due to lack of permission.) Here is a truly remarkable collection of this century's short stories that readers from all over the world will read with delight.

When the alcoholic British 'Honorary Consul' in an Argentinian town is kidnapped by a band of revolutionaries, a local doctor negotiates with his captors and with the authorities for the man's release, but the corruption of both soon comes to the fore. From the author of OUR MAN IN HAVANA and THE HUMAN FACTOR.

For Arthur Rowe the trip to the charity fete was a joyful step back into adolescence, a chance to forget the nightmare of the Blitz and the guilt of having mercifully murdered his sick wife. He was surviving alone, aside from the War, until he happened to win a cake at the fete. From that moment, he finds himself ruthlessly hunted, the quarry of malign and shadowy forces, from which he endeavors to escape ...

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 eclectic and stimulating;

A collection of four stories comprising Under The Garden' (A short novel); A Visit to the Morin'; Dream of a Strange Land' and A Discovery in the Woods'. In these four stories Graham Greene, one of the master of modern English fiction, has allowed himself the liberty of fantasy, myth, legend and dream. The results are, quite simply, superb.

Drover, a Communist bus driver, is in prison appealing his death sentence for killing a policeman during a riot at Hyde Park Corner, a policeman he thought was about to club his wife. A battle rages to save Drover's life from the noose. The Assistant Commissioner, high-principled and over-worked; Conrad, a paranoid clerk; Mr. Surrogate, a rich Fabian; Condor, a pathetic journalist feeding on fantasies; and Kay, pretty and promiscuous — all have a part to play in Drover's fate.

Ten unabridged short stories by twentieth-century authors of various nationalities, including Hemingway, Joyce, Naipaul, Dahl, Greene, and Lessing.

When Querry, a world-famous architect, finds he no longer enjoys life or takes pleasure in art he sets off on a voyage. Arriving anonymously at a leper colony in the Congo, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a 'burnt-out case', a leper mutilated by disease and amputation. Querry slowly moves towards a cure, his mind getting clearer as he works for the colony. However, in the heat of the tropics, no relationship with a married woman, however blameless, will ever be taken as innocent.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis - 'The end of the party'; 'The basement room'; 'A drive in the country'; 'The hint of explanation'; 'The destructors'.

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 retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller exposes a world of loneliness and fear, of life lived on the 'dangerous edge of things.' In this gripping, terrifying, and unputdownable read, discover Greene's iconic tale of the razor-wielding Pinkie. '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 WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEE

'In August 1981 my bag was packed for my fifth visit to Panama when the news came to me over the telephone of the death of General Omar Torrijos Herrera, my friend and host. . . At that moment the idea came to me to write a short personal memoir. . . of a man I had grown to love over those five years' GETTING TO KNOW THE GENERAL is Graham Greene's account of a five-year personal involvement with Omar Torrijos, ruler of Panama from 1968-81 and Sergeant Chuchu, one of the few men in the National Guard whom the General trusted completely. It is a fascinating tribute to an inspirational politician in the vital period of his country's history, and to an unusual and enduring friendship.

Rollo Martins' usual line is the writing of cheap paperback Westerns under the name of Buck Dexter. But when his old friend Harry Lime invites him to Vienna, he jumps at the chance. With exactly five pounds in his pocket, he arrives only just in time to make it to his friend's funeral. The victim of an apparently banal street accident, the late Mr. Lime, it seems, had been the focus of a criminal investigation, suspected of nothing less than being "the worst racketeer who ever made a dirty living in this city." Martins is determined to clear his friend's name, and begins an investigation of his own...

With superb skill and feeling, Graham Greene retraces the experiences and encounters of his extraordinary life. 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.

Graham Greene's autobiographical account of schooldays and Oxford; encounters with adolescence, psychoanalysis and Russian roulette, his marriage and conversion to Catholicism and how he rashly resigned from the Times when his first novel was published.

Strange characters and mysterious threats will keep readers enraptured in this tale of a man who revisits his childhood home and recalls a youthful adventure "under the garden".

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. Contents - The Destructors - Special Duties - The Blue Film - The Hint of an Explanation - When Greek Meets Greek - Men at Work - Alas, Poor Maling - The Case for the Defence - A Little Place off the Edgware Road - Across the Bridge - A Drive in the Country - The Innocent - The Basement Room - A Chance for Mr Lever - Brother - Jubilee - A Day Saved - I Spy - Proof Positive - The Second Death - The End of the Party

Part of the Writers' Britain series, first published in the 1940s. This work offers Graham Greene's evaluation of British drama, from its roots in the Mystery and Miracle plays of the market carnival through Shakespeare and the Restoration to the 20th century.

Bertram is not a believer in luck. An unambitious accountant, his plans for his second marriage are typically quiet: St. Luke’s then two weeks in Bournemouth. But he comes to the attention of Dreuther, the director of his company, who changes Bertram’s plans for him: wedding and honeymoon in Monte Carlo, on board his private yacht. Inevitably Bertram visits the casino, and loses. But then his system starts working, and his trouble really begins.

An espionage thriller set in England in the 1930s.

WITH A FOREWORD BY TIM BUTCHER AND AN INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUX In 1935 Graham Greene set off to discover Liberia, a remote and unfamiliar West African republic founded for released slaves. Crossing the red-clay terrain from Sierra Leone to the coast at Grand Bassa with a chain of porters, he came to know one of the few areas of Africa untouched by Western colonisation.

Doctor Fischer despises the human race. When the notorious toothpaste millionaire decides to hold his own deadly version of the Book of Revelations, Greene opens up a powerful vision of the limitless greed of the rich; black comedy and painful satire combine in a totally compelling novel. (Source: back cover)

A master of twentieth century fiction, Graham Greene looks back on his life. This volume also includes several key interviews from throughout his long, fruitful career.Graham Greene led one of the most extraordinary lives of the twentieth century. The son of a Hertfordshire headmaster, he quickly discovered a love for writing, beginning a career that would last a lifetime. Greene's fascination with global politics took him around the world, to places that would become the settings for many of his most famous Mexico ( The Power and the Glory ), Sierra Leone ( The Heart of the Matter ), and Haiti ( The Comedians ) - among dozens of other far-flung locations. He produced masterpieces throughout his life, many of which now stand as indisputably Brighton Rock, The End of the Affair , and The Quiet American to name but a few.

Graham Greene'S First Novel To Be Published Represented For The Author 'One Sentimental Gesture Towards His Won Past, The Period Of Ambition And Hope'. It Tells The Story Of Andrews, A Young Man Who Has Betrayed His Fellow Smugglers And Fears Their Vengeance. Fleeing From Them, With No Hope Of Pity Or Salvation, He Takes Refuge In The House Of A Young Woman, Also Alone In The World. She Persuades Him To Give Evidence Against His Accomplices In Court, But Neither She Nor Andrews Is Aware That To Both Criminals And Authority Treachery Is As Great A Crime As Smuggling.Greene Began Writing The Man Within At The Age Of Twenty-One. A Remarkable Achievement, It Is Also A Foretaste Of The More Mature Novels Where Religion Struggles Against Cynicism And The Individual Battles Against The Indifferent Forces Of A Hostile World.

Anthony Farrant has always found his way, lying to get jobs and borrowing money to get by when he leaves them in a hurry. His twin suster Kate persuades him to move and sets him up with a job as a bodyguard to Krogh, which has drastic results.

This collection of fiction from around the world is concerned with censorship taboos and includes work from writers who remain censored, exiled or imprisoned. It includes writing by Willaim Trevor, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Aicha Lemsing and Breyten Breytenbach.