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The Tenth Man is a 1985 short novel by the British novelist Graham Greene. Background [ edit ] In the introduction to the first edition of his novel, [1] Greene states that he had forgotten about this story until receiving a letter about it from a stranger in 1983.
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- 1985
Jan 1, 1985 · The Tenth Man (1985) is a short novel by the British novelist Graham Greene. The story begins in a prison in occupied France during the Second World War. It is decreed that one in every ten prisoners is to be executed; lots are drawn to decide who will die.
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Feb 1, 1998 · From the author of the classics Brighton Rock and The Power and the Glory, a morally complex tale about a man at the mercy of deadly forces while being held in a German prison camp during World War II. Featuring an introduction by the author and two other story ideas from his archives.
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- Graham Greene
THE TENTH MAN. by Graham Greene ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 29, 1985. bookshelf. shop now. By his own admission (in a brief introduction here), Greene had "completely forgotten" the existence of an unpublished story called The Tenth Man—sold in 1944 to MGM, which dug it out of the archives in 1983.
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Apr 5, 2022 · by Graham Greene (Author) 4.3 195 ratings. See all formats and editions. From the author of the classics Brighton Rock and The Power and the Glory, a morally complex tale about a man at the mercy of deadly forces while being held in a German prison camp during World War II.
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- Graham Greene
Jan 1, 1985 · Greene sets a fast, frightening pace with his usual taut writing as a man, in post war2 France, copes with his compromised identity. Not to be missed. Read more
- Graham Greene
Graham Greene's The Tenth Man is one of his most startling and unexpected major novels. Set in wartime occupied France, it is about a man who buys a life in a moment of...
