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A Burnt-out Case by Graham Greene
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art of 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. ...Show more
A Gun for Sale by Graham Greene
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Raven is an assassin, a hired killer, and his brutal murder of the Minister raises the spectre of war across Europe. As the nation prepares for battle, Raven goes on the run, hunted by the police and hunting the man who paid him in stolen banknotes, eventually unearthing the terrible truth behind the ki ...Show more
A Sort of Life by Graham Greene
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics | Reading Level: good
This is the first volume of Graham Greene's notoriously misleading, mischevious, but nonetheless fascinating autobiography Graham Greene's 'long journey through time' began in 1904, when he was born into a tribe of Greenes based in Berkhamstead at the public school where his father was headmaster. In A ...Show more
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene; J. M. Coetzee (Introduction by)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEEA 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 w ...Show more
Doctor Fischer of Geneva by Graham Greene
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
A satirical black comedy reissued from the legendary Graham Greene. Doctor Fischer despises the human race. When the notorious toothpaste millionaire decides to hold the last of his famous parties -- his own deadly version of the Book of Revelations -- Greene opens up a powerful vision of the limitless ...Show more
England Made Me by Graham Greene
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Category: Classic Fiction
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 sister Kate persuades him to move and sets him up with a job as bodyguard to Krogh, her lover and boss, an all-powerful Swedish financier. But Farrant does have a sense of d ...Show more
Getting to Know the General by Graham Greene
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Category: Classic Fiction
This Graham Greene classic outlines his friendship with General Torrijos and his bodyguard, Sergeant Chuchu. It is also an introduction to the political complexities of Central America.
Graham Greene - Collected Essays by Graham Greene
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Category: Classic Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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; his subjects brought vividly t ...Show more
It's a Battlefield by Graham Greene
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Drover, a Communist bus driver, is in prison, sentenced to death for killing a policeman during a riot at Hyde Park Corner. A battle for a reprieve with many participants ensues: the Assistant Commissioner, high-principled and over-worked; Conrad, a paranoid clerk; Mr Surrogate, a rich Fabian; Condor, a ...Show more
Journey without Maps by Graham Greene
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Category: Travel & Travel Writing
His originality lay in his gifts as a traveller. He had the foreign ear and eye for the strangeness of ordinary life and its ordinary crises' V. S. Pritchett In 1936 Graham Greene set off to discover Liberia, a remote and unfamiliar West African republic founded for released slaves. Crossing the red-cla ...Show more
Loser Takes All by Graham Greene
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Bertram had no belief in luck. He was not superstitious. A conspicuously unsuccessful assistant accountant, he was planning to get married for the second time. Quite quietly: St Luke's, Maida Hill, and then two weeks in Bournemouth. But Dreuther, a director of Bertram's firm, whimsically switches weddin ...Show more
May We Borrow Your Husband? and Other Comedies of the Sexual Life by Graham Greene
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Author William Harris is spending the fag-end of the season at Antibes finishing his first attempt at historical biography, but he becomes more and more interested and involved in the antics of two homosexual interior decorators intent on stealing Poopy Travis' honeymoon husband. Which leaves him free t ...Show more