Best Graham Greene Novels - April 2024

The Ministry of Fear: An Entertainment (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 cake at the fête. From that moment, he is ruthlessly hunted by Nazi agents and finds himself the prey of malign and shadowy forces. This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by Alan Furst.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143039113
• ASIN: 0143039113
• ISBN: 0143039113
• Brand: Greene, Graham/ Furst, Alan (INT)
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

The Quiet American (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

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 Washington on a mysterious mission to Saigon, where the French Army struggles against the Vietminh guerrillas.As young Pyle's well-intentioned policies blunder into bloodshed, Fowler, a seasoned and cynical British reporter, finds it impossible to sta... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143039024
• ASIN: 0143039024
• ISBN: 0143039024
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

The Power and the Glory (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 magazine, it stands today as his masterpiece.   Mexico, the late 1930s: A paramilitary group has outlawed the Catholic Church and been executing its clergy. Now the last priest is on the run, fleeing not just an unshakable police lieutenant but als... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143107550
• ASIN: 0143107550
• ISBN: 0143107550
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

The End of the Affair (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

"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 Sarah Miles. Now, a year after Sarah's death, Bendrix seeks to exorcise the persistence of his passion by retracing its course from obsessive love to love-hate. At first, he believes he hates Sarah and her husband, Henry. Yet as he delves further i... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0142437980
• ASIN: 0142437980
• ISBN: 0142437980
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

Journey Without Maps (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 with a chain of porters, he came to know one of the few areas of Africa untouched by colonization. Western civilization had not yet impinged on either the human psyche or the social structure, and neither poverty, disease, nor hunger seemed able to qu... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143039725
• ASIN: 0143039725
• ISBN: 0143039725
• Brand: Greene, Graham/ Theroux, Paul (INT)
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

Brighton Rock (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

"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. Responsible for the razor slashes that killed mob boss Kite and also for the death of Hale, a reporter who threatened the livelihood of the mob, Pinkie is the embodiment of calculated evil. As a Catholic, however, Pinkie is convinced that his retribution does... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0142437972
• ASIN: 0142437972
• ISBN: 0142437972
• Brand: Greene, Graham/ Coetzee, J. M. (INT)
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

Twenty-One Stories (Penguin Twentieth-Century 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 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 ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0140185348
• ASIN: 0140185348
• ISBN: 0140185348
• Brand: Penguin Classics
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

Complete Short Stories (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 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 introduc... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143039105
• ASIN: 0143039105
• ISBN: 0143039105
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

Travels with My Aunt (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

"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. She soon persuades Henry to abandon his dull suburban existence to travel her way—winding through Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, and Paraguay. Through Aunt Augusta, one of Greene's greatest comic creations, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society; m... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143039008
• ASIN: 0143039008
• ISBN: 0143039008
• Brand: Greene, Graham/ Emerson, Gloria (INT)
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

The Comedians (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. They are men afraid of love, afraid of pain, afraid of fear itself...For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a glo... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143039199
• ASIN: 0143039199
• ISBN: 0143039199
• Brand: Greene, Graham
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

The Heart of the Matter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“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 severe responsibility to his wife, Louise, for whom he cares with a fatal pity. When Scobie falls in love with the young widow Helen, he finds vital passion again yielding to pity, integrity giving way to deceit and dishonor—a vortex leading direct... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0142437999
• ASIN: 0142437999
• ISBN: 0142437999
• Brand: Penguin Classics
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

Ways of Escape

Ways of Escape

• ASIN: 0099282593
• ASIN: 0099282593
• ISBN: 0099282593
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: VINTAGE (RAND)

A Burnt-Out Case (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

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 the lepers his disease of mind slowly approaches a cure. Then the white community finds out who Querry is...For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0140185399
• ASIN: 0140185399
• ISBN: 0140185399
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

The Third Man and The Fallen Idol (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

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 least, dubious.Graham Greene said of The Third Man that he "wanted to entertain [people], to frighten them a little, to make them laugh" and the result is both a compelling narrative and a haunting thriller. The Fallen Idol is the chilling story of a sm... [Read More]

• ASIN: 014018533X
• ASIN: 014018533X
• ISBN: 014018533X
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

Downton Abbey: Original UK Version Episode 3

• ASIN: B004KAVN7A
• ASIN: B004KAVN7A

Loving Graham Greene - eBook

This marvelous debut novel by former New York Times correspondent and National Book Award--winner Gloria Emerson is a witty and deeply affecting portrait of the stubborn hopes and disillusionment of a privileged woman who dreams

• UPC: 449913631
• Rating: 4.5

The Portable Graham Greene

A wide-ranging anthology features autobiographical and critical material on the English writer, as well as a representative selection of his fiction, including the novels The Third Man and The Heart of the Matter, short stories,

• UPC: 3298286
• Rating: 4.0

Notre Agent à La Havane de Graham Greene - eBook

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’UniversalisL’œuvre littéraire du romancier anglais Graham Greene (1904-1991) est abondante et diverse. Notre Agent à La Havane (1958) se situe au milieu de sa carrière.Une fiche de

• UPC: 488424591

The Power and the Glory

A tormented alcoholic priest is pursued by an idealistic lieutenant during an anti-clerical persecution in

• UPC: 40974894
• Rating: 3.974

The Rising Sea

"Everywhere, waters are rising--and that is just the beginning of the world's peril, unless the NUMA crew can beat the

• UPC: 871043487

The Quiet American : (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

"Graham Greene centennial,

• UPC: 2664268
• Rating: 4.219

Loser Takes All

Luck seems to have eluded Betram altogether. He doesn't even believe in chance. But when his wedding plans are moved to Monte Carlo, he is drawn to the Casino and is seduced by good fortune.

• UPC: 518572
• Rating: 3.5

The Third Man

Just arrived in Vienna, Rollo Martins discovers that the friend he has come to visit is

• UPC: 654331
• Rating: 3.722

The Heart of the Matter : (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

"Graham Greene centennial

• UPC: 2666130
• Rating: 4.031

Monsignor Quixote

When Father Quixote, a local priest of the Spanish village of El Toboso who claims ancestry to Cervantes' fictional Don Quixote, is elevated to the rank of monsignor through a clerical error, he sets out

• UPC: 10077176
• Rating: 4.0