The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene
Title | The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Greene |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 624 |
Release | 2021-01-12 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 039365107X |
A Finalist for the 2022 Edgar Award A Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A vivid, deeply researched account of the tumultuous life of one of the twentieth century’s greatest novelists, the author of The End of the Affair. One of the most celebrated British writers of his generation, Graham Greene’s own story was as strange and compelling as those he told of Pinkie the Mobster, Harry Lime, or the Whisky Priest. A journalist and MI6 officer, Greene sought out the inner narratives of war and politics across the world; he witnessed the Second World War, the Vietnam War, the Mau Mau Rebellion, the rise of Fidel Castro, and the guerrilla wars of Central America. His classic novels, including The Heart of the Matter and The Quiet American, are only pieces of a career that reads like a primer on the twentieth century itself. The Unquiet Englishman braids the narratives of Greene’s extraordinary life. It portrays a man who was traumatized as an adolescent and later suffered a mental illness that brought him to the point of suicide on several occasions; it tells the story of a restless traveler and unfailing advocate for human rights exploring troubled places around the world, a man who struggled to believe in God and yet found himself described as a great Catholic writer; it reveals a private life in which love almost always ended in ruin, alongside a larger story of politicians, battlefields, and spies. Above all, The Unquiet Englishman shows us a brilliant novelist mastering his craft. A work of wit, insight, and compassion, this new biography of Graham Greene, the first undertaken in a generation, responds to the many thousands of pages of letters that have recently come to light and to new memoirs by those who knew him best. It deals sensitively with questions of private life, sex, and mental illness, and sheds new light on one of the foremost modern writers.
The Graham Greene Film Reader
Title | The Graham Greene Film Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Graham Greene |
Publisher | Hal Leonard Corporation |
Pages | 784 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9781557831880 |
Gathers Greene's film writings, and offers a brief introduction to the role of motion pictures in his life and career
The Quiet American
Title | The Quiet American PDF eBook |
Author | Graham Greene |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2018-03-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1504052544 |
A “masterful . . . brilliantly constructed novel” of love and chaos in 1950s Vietnam (Zadie Smith, The Guardian). It’s 1955 and British journalist Thomas Fowler has been in Vietnam for two years covering the insurgency against French colonial rule. But it’s not just a political tangle that’s kept him tethered to the country. There’s also his lover, Phuong, a young Vietnamese woman who clings to Fowler for protection. Then comes Alden Pyle, an idealistic American working in service of the CIA. Devotedly, disastrously patriotic, he believes neither communism nor colonialism is what’s best for Southeast Asia, but rather a “Third Force”: American democracy by any means necessary. His ideas of conquest include Phuong, to whom he promises a sweet life in the states. But as Pyle’s blind moral conviction wreaks havoc upon innocent lives, it’s ultimately his romantic compulsions that will play a role in his own undoing. Although criticized upon publication as anti-American, Graham Greene’s “complex but compelling story of intrigue and counter-intrigue” would, in a few short years, prove prescient in its own condemnation of American interventionism (The New York Times).
A Sort of Life
Title | A Sort of Life PDF eBook |
Author | Graham Greene |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 30 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0099282577 |
Graham Green was born into a veritable tribe of Greenes - six children, eventually, and sic cousins - based in Berkhamstead at the public school where his father was headmaster. In A SORT OF LIFE Greene recalls schooldays and Oxford, adolescent encounters
The Honorary Consul
Title | The Honorary Consul PDF eBook |
Author | Graham Greene |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2000-09-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0684871254 |
Relates the story of the politically motivated kidnapping of Charlie Fortnum, a minor British functionary in Argentina.
Travels with My Aunt
Title | Travels with My Aunt PDF eBook |
Author | Graham Greene |
Publisher | Transaction Publishers |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2007-01-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1412849012 |
The story of Henry 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. She soon persuades Henry to abandon his dull suburban existence to travel her to Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay. Through Aunt Augusta, one of Greene's greatest comic creations, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society; mixes with hippies, war criminals, and CIA men; smokes pot and breaks all currency regulations.
Getting To Know The General
Title | Getting To Know The General PDF eBook |
Author | Graham Greene |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 147 |
Release | 2010-10-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1409020223 |
'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.