Graham Greene - Free Library Land Online

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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...]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 Our Man in Havana https://childrens.library.land/graham-greene/40586-our_man_in_havana.html https://childrens.library.land/graham-greene/40586-our_man_in_havana.html

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS 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.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 A Sense of Reality: And Other Stories https://childrens.library.land/graham-greene/40578-a_sense_of_reality_and_other_stories.html https://childrens.library.land/graham-greene/40578-a_sense_of_reality_and_other_stories.html

A collection that captures a wealth of the writer's diverse themes.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 The Third Man https://childrens.library.land/graham-greene/40574-the_third_man.html https://childrens.library.land/graham-greene/40574-the_third_man.html

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...]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 The Tenth Man https://childrens.library.land/graham-greene/40588-the_tenth_man.html https://childrens.library.land/graham-greene/40588-the_tenth_man.html

During World War II a group of men is held prisoner by the Germans, who determine that three of them must die. This is the story of how one of those men trades his wealth for his life—and lives to pay for his act in utterly unexpected ways.]]> Sat, 12 Oct 1985 20:05:00 +0300 Twenty-One Stories https://childrens.library.land/graham-greene/40570-twenty-one_stories.html https://childrens.library.land/graham-greene/40570-twenty-one_stories.html

]]> Fri, 12 Oct 2001 20:04:56 +0300 Getting to Know the General: The Story of an Involvement https://childrens.library.land/graham-greene/40591-getting_to_know_the_general_the_story_of_an_involvement.html https://childrens.library.land/graham-greene/40591-getting_to_know_the_general_the_story_of_an_involvement.html

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.]]> Fri, 12 Oct 1984 20:05:00 +0300 A Sort of Life https://childrens.library.land/graham-greene/40599-a_sort_of_life.html https://childrens.library.land/graham-greene/40599-a_sort_of_life.html

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 Sort of Life Greene recalls schooldays and Oxford, adolescent encounters with psychoanalysis and Russian roulette, his marriage and conversion to Catholicism, and how he rashly resigned from The Times when his first novel, The Man Within was published in 1929. A Sort of Life reveals, brilliantly and compellingly, a life lived and an art obsessed by 'the dangerous edge of things'.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 Stamboul Train https://childrens.library.land/graham-greene/40576-stamboul_train.html https://childrens.library.land/graham-greene/40576-stamboul_train.html

Published in 1932 as an 'entertainment', Graham Greene's gripping spy thriller unfolds aboard the majestic Orient Express as it crosses Europe from Ostend to Istanbul. Weaving a web of subterfuge, murder and politics along the way, the novel focuses upon the disturbing relationship between Myatt, the pragmatic Jew, and naive chorus girl Coral Musker as they engage in a desperate, angst-ridden pas-de-deux before a chilling turn of events spells an end to the unlikely interlude. Exploring the many shades of despair and hope, innocence and duplicity, Stamboul Train offers a poignant testimony to Greene's extraordinary powers of insight into the human condition.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 The Heart of the Matter https://childrens.library.land/graham-greene/40572-the_heart_of_the_matter.html https://childrens.library.land/graham-greene/40572-the_heart_of_the_matter.html

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOOD Scobie, a police officer serving in a wartime West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 The Ministry of Fear https://childrens.library.land/graham-greene/40596-the_ministry_of_fear.html https://childrens.library.land/graham-greene/40596-the_ministry_of_fear.html

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. "A master thriller and a remarkable portrait of a twisted character." —Time This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by Alan Furst.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 A Burnt-Out Case https://childrens.library.land/graham-greene/40603-a_burnt-out_case.html https://childrens.library.land/graham-greene/40603-a_burnt-out_case.html

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.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 Brighton Rock https://childrens.library.land/graham-greene/40589-brighton_rock.html https://childrens.library.land/graham-greene/40589-brighton_rock.html

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 a class by himself-the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety' William Golding, Independent]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 Travels With My Aunt https://childrens.library.land/graham-greene/40585-travels_with_my_aunt.html https://childrens.library.land/graham-greene/40585-travels_with_my_aunt.html

Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, his dahlias and the Major next door to travel her way, Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay. Through Aunt Augusta, a veteran of Europe's hotel bedrooms, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society: mixing with hippies, war criminals, CIA men; smoking pot, breaking all the currency regulations and eventually coming alive after a dull suburban life. In Travels with my Aunt Graham Greene not only gives us intoxicating entertainment but also confronts us with some of the most perplexing of human dilemmas.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300