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3 days ago · It follows Graham Gore, a Victorian naval officer and ‘expat’ from a doomed 19th century Arctic expedition to the 21st century; and the book’s narrator, his ‘bridge’ – a civil servant who works...
2 days ago · Book Thingy: Another Graham Greene. I was shocked to learn that Graham Greene's novel Our Man in Havana was based on a true story that happened in Germany. It was the Cold War, and everywhere was a spy, oh my. This actual MI6 British Operative in Germany created a whole spy network of their guys and our guys.
Jun 7, 2024 · Graham Greene's Brighton Rock tells the story of a young leader of one of the infamous razor gangs in 1930s Brighton who murders a journalist and then finds that his attempts to avoid any possibility of arrest lead him into ever-increasing complications and violence. A woman who had befriended the journalist sets out to bring his killer to justice.
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5 days ago · Greene is generally considered a spy novelist, but his first novels have not been about intelligence. His first novel, for example, The Man Within (1929), was about a smuggler of alcohol who betrays his colleagues to the police. While on the run, the smuggler meets a stranger in a bar who makes the witty statement: “‘We shall never put down ...
Jun 17, 2024 · E velyn Waugh and Graham Greene had one of the great modern literary friendships — comparable to Conrad and Ford, Eliot and Pound, Owen and Sassoon. Strikingly similar in many ways, they were close contemporaries and came from professional middle-class families.
Jun 5, 2024 · A World of my Own: A Dream Diary. By Graham Greene. September 1988 Issue. Paul Theroux. What the Hell is Going on? The Captain and the Enemy. By Graham Greene. April 2004 Issue. J W M Thompson. Travels With My Lover. In Search of a Beginning: My Life with Graham Greene.
6 days ago · One of Greene's most well-known works, meaningfully (and humorously) inscribed to his secretary just before her departure Graham Greene. Our Man in Havana. An Entertainment. London: Heinemann, [1958]. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Original pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION.
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