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Brighton Rock
by Graham Greene, J. M. Coetzee

ISBN 0142437972 (0-14-243797-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Pinkie, a boy gangster in pre-war Brighton, is a Catholic dedicated to evil and damnation. In a dark setting of double crossing and razor slashes, his ambition and hatreds are horribly fulfilled, until Ida determines to convict him for murder. [via]
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A Burnt-Out Case
by Graham Greene

ISBN 0140185399 (0-14-018539-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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The Collected Edition
by Graham Greene

ISBN 0434305537 (0-434-30553-7)
Hardcover, Heinemann

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The Comedians
by Graham Greene

ISBN 0143039199 (0-14-303919-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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One of Graham Greene's most chilling and prophetic novels, The Comedians is set in a Haiti ruled by Papa Doc and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Just as The Quiet American offered a preview of the coming horrors of American involvement in Vietnam, this novel presages the chaos in Haiti. Classic Graham Greene. [via]
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- The Comedians: ISBN 0140184945 (0-14-018494-5)
  Softcover, Penguin USA
- The Comedians: ISBN 0143039199 (0-14-303919-9)
  Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Confidential Agent
by Graham Greene

ISBN 0140185380 (0-14-018538-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Doctor Fischer of Geneva, or The Bomb Party
by Graham Greene

ISBN 0370303164 (0-370-30316-4)
Hardcover, Bodley Head

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A darkly comic novel about a misanthropic millionaire who decides to hold the last of his famous parties, but this time it is to be his own deadly version of the Book of Revelation. Reissued as part of the VINTAGE CLASSICS series, from the author of THE COMEDIANS and THE HUMAN FACTOR. [via]
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El Tercer Hombre
by Graham Greene

ISBN 8420672807 (84-206-7280-7)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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A novel and a film of suspense: When Carol Reed asked Graham Greene for a script for a suspense movie, in order not to change his work methods, the writer wrote a short novel where he developed the subject of the picture. This film, of course, is one of the greatest in the field, but the novel of Greene is also very interesting and is presented with great pride. [via]
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End of the Affair
by Graham Greene

ISBN 0140291091 (0-14-029109-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Set in London during and just after World War II, Graham Greene's The End of the Affair is a pathos-laden examination of a three-way collision between love of self, love of another, and love of God. The affair in question involves Maurice Bendrix, a solipsistic novelist, and a dutifully married woman, Sarah Miles. The lovers meet at a party thrown by Sarah's dreary civil-servant husband, and proceed to liberate each other from boredom and routine unhappiness. Reflecting on the ebullient beginnings of their romance, Bendrix recalls: "There was never any question in those days of who wanted whom--we were together in desire." Indeed, the affair goes on unchecked for several years until, during an afternoon tryst, Bendrix goes downstairs to look for intruders in his basement and a bomb falls on the building. Sarah rushes down to find him lying under a fallen door, and immediately makes a deal with God, whom she has never particularly cared for. "I love him and I'll do anything if you'll make him alive.... I'll give him up forever, only let him be alive with a chance.... People can love each other without seeing each other, can't they, they love You all their lives without seeing You."
Bendrix, as evidenced by his ability to tell the story, is not dead, merely unconscious, and so Sarah must keep her promise. She breaks off the relationship without giving a reason, leaving Bendrix mystified and angry. The only explanation he can think of is that she's left him for another man. It isn't until years later, when he hires a private detective to ascertain the truth, that he learns of her impassioned vow. Sarah herself comes to understand her move through a strange rationalization. Writing to God in her journal, she says:
You willed our separation, but he [Bendrix] willed it too. He worked for it with his anger and his jealousy, and he worked for it with his love. For he gave me so much love, and I gave him so much love that soon there wasn't anything left, when we'd finished, but You.
It's as though the pull toward faith were inevitable, if incomprehensible--perhaps as punishment for her sin of adultery. In her final years, Sarah's faith only deepens, even as she remains haunted by the bombing and the power of her own attraction to God. Set against the backdrop of a war-ravaged city, The End of the Affair is equally haunting as it lays forth the question of what constitutes love in troubling, unequivocal terms. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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Greene on Capri: A Memoir
by Shirley Hazzard

ISBN 0374527776 (0-374-52777-6)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux

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A Gun for Sale
by Graham Greene

ISBN 014303930X (0-14-303930-X)
Softcover, Penguin Classics

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- A Gun for Sale: ISBN 0140185402 (0-14-018540-2)
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The Heart of the Matter
by Graham Greene

ISBN 0140283323 (0-14-028332-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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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 dishonora vortex leading directly to murder. As Scobie's world crumbles, his personal crisis makes for a novel that is suspenseful, fascinating, and, finally, tragic.

Originally published in 1948, The Heart of the Matter is the unforgettable portrait of one man, flawed yet heroic, destroyed and redeemed by a terrible conflict of passion and faith.

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The Heart of the Matter: Stamboul Train ; A Burnt-Out Case ; The Third Man ; The Quiet American ; Loser Takes All ; The Power and the Glory
by Graham Greene

ISBN 0905712013 (0-905712-01-3)
Hardcover, Heinemann/Octopus

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The Human Factor
by Graham Greene

ISBN 0671648500 (0-671-64850-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

Graham Greenes passion for moral complexity and his stylistic aplomb were perfectly suited to the cat-and mouse game of the spy novel, a genre he practically invented and to which he periodically returned while fashioning one of the twentieth centurys longest, most triumphant literary careers. Written late in his life, The Human Factor displays his gift for suspense at its most refined level, and his understanding of the physical and spiritual vulnerability of the individual at its deepest. [via]
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It's a Battlefield
by Graham Greene

ISBN 0140185410 (0-14-018541-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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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 pathetic journalist feeding on fantasies; pretty, promiscuous Kay - all have a part to play in his fate. [via]
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The Lawless Roads
by Graham Greene, David Rieff

ISBN 0143039733 (0-14-303973-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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The Life of Graham Greene
by Norman Sherry

ISBN 0670031429 (0-670-03142-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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The Life of Graham Greene: 1904-1939
by Norman Sherry

ISBN 0670813761 (0-670-81376-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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The second volume of Norman Sherry's three-volume biography reveals Graham Greene, at the height of his powers, as one of the great novelists and most enigmatic figures of this century. Saying he would not entrust his papers and own recorded confidences to a friend, Greene chose Sherry for his biographer, having admired his literary detective work on Joseph Conrad's fiction. The book encompasses the most creative phase of Greene's life, when he wrote not only some of his best novels - among them "The Ministry of Fear", "The Heart of the Matter", "The End of the Affair" and "The Quiet American" - but collaborated with Carol Reed on the films of "The Fallen Idol" and "The Third Man". Yet this was also the most tumultuous period, seeing Greene's passionate affair with a beautiful and complex American who was then married to a British peer, and the disintegration of his marriage to Vivien. Here, for the first time, is the full story of Greene's activities as a secret agent and the revealing correspondence that shuttled between his one-time boss Kim Philby in Moscow and Sherry in England. In the 1950s, Greene was increasingly drawn to areas of conflict in the world - to Kenya, Malaya, and to the last days of French Indo-China. [via]
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The Life Of Graham Greene, 1939-1955
by Norman Sherry

ISBN 014024526X (0-14-024526-X)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited

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A companion to the Edgar Award-winning first volume offers a portrait of Greene at the height of his literary career and examines his love affair with an American woman, the end of his marriage, and his experiences as a spy. 25,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo. Tour. [via]
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The Life of Graham Greene, 1955-1991
by Norman Sherry

ISBN 0143036130 (0-14-303613-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Monarch Notes on Graham Greene's Major Novels
by Gregor Roy

ISBN 0671008382 (0-671-00838-2)
Hardcover, Pearson Education, Limited

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A critical guide providing complete understanding of the great works and ideas. [via]
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Monsignor Quixote
by Graham Greene

ISBN 0671722239 (0-671-72223-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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No one was more astonished by the unexpected announcement than Father Quixote himself. A monsignor! Incredible! His local bishop is mystified. Anxious to be rid of him, however, the bishop suggests the freshly minted Monsignor Quixote take a driving holiday through Spain. Accompanied by his friend Sanchothe ex-mayor of El TobosoQuixote embarks upon a series of misadventures hilariously reminiscent of the monsignors more famous ancestor.
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Orient Express
by Graham Greene

ISBN 0142437913 (0-14-243791-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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As the Orient Express hurtles across Europe on its three-day journey from Ostend to Constantinople, the driven lives of several of its passengers become bound together in a fateful interlock. The menagerie of characters include Coral Musker, a beautiful chorus girl; Carleton Myatt, a rich Jewish businessman; Richard John, a mysterious and kind doctor returning to his native Belgrade; the spiteful journalist Mabel Warren; and Josef Grunlich, a cunning, murderous burglar.

What happens to these strangers as they put on and take off their masks of identity and passion, all the while confessing, prevaricating, and reaching out to one another in the "veracious air" of the onrushing train, makes for one of Graham Greene's most exciting and suspenseful stories. Originally published in 1933, Orient Express was Greene's first major success.

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- Orient Express: ISBN 0670528412 (0-670-52841-2)
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Our Man in Havana
by Graham Greene

ISBN 0140184937 (0-14-018493-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Graham Greene?s classic Cuban spy story, now with a new package and a new introduction

First published in 1959, Our Man in Havana is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire that still resonates today. Conceived as one of Graham Greene?s ?entertainments,? it tells of MI6?s man in Havana, Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Lamb?s Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. Then his stories start coming disturbingly true.

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The Portable Graham Greene
by Graham Greene

ISBN 0140150757 (0-14-015075-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA

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The Portable Graham Greene
by Philip Stratford, Graham Greene

ISBN 0143039180 (0-14-303918-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Power and the Glory
by Graham Greene

ISBN 0142437301 (0-14-243730-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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How does good spoil, and how can bad be redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene explores corruption and atonement through a priest and the people he encounters. In the 1930s one Mexican state has outlawed the Church, naming it a source of greed and debauchery. The priests have been rounded up and shot by firing squad--save one, the whisky priest. On the run, and in a blur of alcohol and fear, this outlaw meets a dentist, a banana farmer, and a village woman he knew six years earlier. For a while, he is accompanied by a toothless man--whom he refers to as his Judas and does his best to ditch. Always, an adamant lieutenant is only a few hours behind, determined to liberate his country from the evils of the church.
On the verge of reaching a safer region, the whisky priest is repeatedly held back by his vocation, even though he no longer feels fit to perform his rites: "When he was gone it would be as if God in all this space between the sea and the mountains ceased to exist. Wasn't it his duty to stay, even if they despised him, even if they were murdered for his sake? even if they were corrupted by his example?"
As his sins and dangers increase, the broken priest comes to confront the nature of piety and love. Still, when he is granted a reprieve, he feels himself sliding into the old arrogance, slipping it on like the black gloves he used to wear. Greene has drawn this man--and all he encounters--vividly and viscerally. He may have said The Power and the Glory was "written to a thesis," but this brilliant theological thriller has far more mysteries--and troubling ideals--than certainties. --Joannie Kervran Stangeland [via]
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The Quiet American
by Graham Greene, John Clark Pratt

ISBN 014024350X (0-14-024350-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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While the French Army in Indo-China is grappling with the Vietminh, back in Saigon a young and high-minded American named Pyle begins to channel economic aid to a "Third Force."

Caught between French colonialists and the Vietminh, Fowler, the narrator and seasoned foreign correspondent, observes: "I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused." As young Pyle's policies blunder on into bloodshed, the older man finds it impossible to stand aside as an observer. But Fowler's motives for intervening are suspect, both to the police and to himself: for Pyle has robbed him of his Vietnamese mistress.
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A Sort of Life
by Graham Greene

ISBN 0671451987 (0-671-45198-7)
Softcover, Pocket Books

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Stamboul Train
by Graham Greene

ISBN 0140185321 (0-14-018532-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Published in 1932, this spy thriller unfolds aboard the Orient Express as it crosses Europe from Ostend to Constantinople. Weaving a web of subterfuge, murder and politics along the way, it focuses upon the disturbing relationship between Myatt, the pragmatic Jew, and chorus girl, Coral Musker. [via]
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The Third Woman: The Secret Passion That Inspired the End of the Affair
by William Cash

ISBN 0786708123 (0-7867-0812-3)
Hardcover, Carroll & Graf Pub

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This Gun for Hire
by Graham Greene

ISBN 0670701726 (0-670-70172-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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"More than an entertainment and more than a detective thriller, "This Gun for Hire" is a harrowing exploration of the twisted and tortured psyche of the hardened criminal." [from the front flap] [via]
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- This Gun for Hire: ISBN 0670701726 (0-670-70172-6)
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Travels With My Aunt
by Graham Greene

ISBN 1850890366 (1-85089-036-6)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books

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Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his old aunt for the first time in over 50 years. She persuades him to travel with her. Through his aunt, a veteran of Europe's hotel bedrooms, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society coming alive after a dull suburban lifetime. [via]
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A World of My Own: A Dream Diary
by Graham Greene

ISBN 1871061369 (1-871061-36-9)
Hardcover, Reinhardt Books in association with Viking

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El Americano Impasible
by Graham Greene

ISBN 8402074979 (84-02-07497-9)
Softcover, Lectorum Pubns Inc

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El Fin De LA Aventura/the End of the Affair
by Graham Greene

ISBN 8435007596 (84-350-0759-6)
Hardcover, Ediciones Urano

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Viajes con mi tia/ Travels with my Aunt
by Graham Greene

ISBN 9875660191 (987-566-019-1)
Softcover, Debolsillo

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