Shades of Greene
Title | Shades of Greene PDF eBook |
Author | Graham Greene |
Publisher | Putnam Aeronautical Books |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
100 Shades of Greene
Title | 100 Shades of Greene PDF eBook |
Author | Hank Greene |
Publisher | AuthorHouse |
Pages | 183 |
Release | 2013-11-15 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1491829559 |
100 Shades of Greene has poems, verses and short stories about life's emotions and dreams. It is about feelings, about lost love,about new love and family. It is about God and spirit, about birth and death, joy and pain. Things that touch all of us in our lifetime.
Shades of Greene
Title | Shades of Greene PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremy Lewis |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 610 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Brothers and sisters |
ISBN | 0099551888 |
In the early years of the last century, two brothers, Charles and Edward Greene, settled in Berkhamsted, a small country town thirty miles from London. There they were to found a remarkable dynasty - fathering twelve children between then - each of whom were to lead varied, well-documented and extraordinary lives. This book explores for the first time this generation of the Greene family in colourful detail - their relationships and shared history, and their lives - as explorers, writers, doctors, spies, politicians and much more. There is Graham, one of the greatest English writers of the twentieth century; Hugh, the Daily Telegraph's Berlin corespondent in the years leading up to WW2, and later Director-General of the BBC; Raymond, a brilliant mountaineer and medical man who took part in the 1933 Everest expedition; their sister Elisabeth, MI6 agent, enlisting family and friends into the secret service; cousin Ben, a pacifist and Labour Party activist who was interned in 1940 at the same time as Oswald Mosley; his sister, Barbara, who spent the war in Germany; and their younger brother Felix, a pioneer of radio journalism and apologist for Communist China, who moved to a commune in California with his cousin Christopher Isherwood and Aldous Huxley; and Herbert, the black sheep of the family, fantasist and amateur spy. Interlacing biography, history, high adventure and scenes from literary life, Shades of Greene provides a riveting insight into the self-confident, enterprising, upper middle-class English world that flourished between the 1920s and the 1970s: and into a truly remarkable tribe.
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).
Shades of Greene
Title | Shades of Greene PDF eBook |
Author | Graham Greene |
Publisher | Penguin (Non-Classics) |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780140040234 |
Shades of Greene
Title | Shades of Greene PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremy Lewis |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | |
Release | 2011-02-28 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781446450116 |
In the early years of the last century, two brothers, Charles and Edward Greene, settled in Berkhamsted, a small country town thirty miles from London. There they were to found a remarkable dynasty - fathering twelve children between then - each of whom were to lead varied, well-documented and extraordinary lives. This book explores for the first time this generation of the Greene family in colourful detail - their relationships and shared history, and their lives - as explorers, writers, doctors, spies, politicians and much more. There is Graham, one of the greatest English writers of the twentieth century; Hugh, the Daily Telegraph's Berlin corespondent in the years leading up to WW2, and later Director-General of the BBC; Raymond, a brilliant mountaineer and medical man who took part in the 1933 Everest expedition; their sister Elisabeth, MI6 agent, enlisting family and friends into the secret service; cousin Ben, a pacifist and Labour Party activist who was interned in 1940 at the same time as Oswald Mosley; his sister, Barbara, who spent the war in Germany; and their younger brother Felix, a pioneer of radio journalism and apologist for Communist China, who moved to a commune in California with his cousin Christopher Isherwood and Aldous Huxley; and Herbert, the black sheep of the family, fantasist and amateur spy. Interlacing biography, history, high adventure and scenes from literary life, Shades of Greene provides a riveting insight into the self-confident, enterprising, upper middle-class English world that flourished between the 1920s and the 1970s: and into a truly remarkable tribe.
Shades of Greene
Title | Shades of Greene PDF eBook |
Author | Graham Greene |
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Release | 1977 |
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