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The Man Within by Graham Greene
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Graham Greenes first published novel represented for the author one sentimental gesture towards his own past, the period of ambition and hope. It tells the story of Andrews, a young man who has betrayed his fellow smugglers and fears their vengeance. "The Man Within" offers a foretaste of Greenes recurr ...Show more
The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene
Category: Classics
This phantasmagoric study in terror is set in Second World War London. Arthur Rowe's mind is hamstrung by guilt - a Graham Greene speciality - and he stands aside from the war until he happens to guess both the true and the false weight of the cake at a charity fete. From that moment he is the quarry of ...Show more
The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene
Category: Classics
For Arthur Rowe the charity fete was a trip back to childhood, to innocence, a welcome chance to escape the terror of the Blitz, to forget twenty years of his past and a murder. Then he guesses the weight of the cake, and from that moment on he's a hunted man, the target of shadowy killers, on the run a ...Show more
The Ministry of Fear (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Graham Greene
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
It is 1941 and bombs have turned London into the front line of a world war. In the shadows of the Blitz, Hitler's agents are running a blackmail operation to obtain documents that could bring the nation to instant defeat. Arthur Rowe, a man once convicted of a notorious mercy killing, stumbles onto a Ge ...Show more
The Power And The Glory by Graham Greene
Category: Classics
This title includes a reading guide. During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky priest', is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being shut off, his chances getting fewer. But compassion and humanity force him along the road to his des ...Show more
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In a poor, remote section of southern Mexico, the Red Shirts have taken control. God has been outlawed, and the priests have been systematically hunted down and killed. Now, the last priest strives to overcome physical and moral cowardice in order to find redemption. Graham Greene explores corruption an ...Show more
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Category: Classics
Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as he i ...Show more
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
Graham Greene’s classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused, Graham Greene’s narrator Fowler remarks of Alden Pyle, the eponymous Quiet American of what is perhaps the most controversial novel of his career. Pyle ...Show more
The Quiet American: Insight Text Guide 2004 by Graham Greene
Category: Education | Series: Insight Text Guide Ser.
Includes 20,000 words of easy-to-read, in-depth analysis. Key quotes, issues/themes, scenes highlighted and page referenced. Chapter summaries and analysis. Character studies. Themes, issues, genre, style and structure examined. Further resources listed. Sample questions and answers. Exam strategies. ...Show more
The Tenth Man by Graham Greene
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
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.
The Third Man and Other Stories by Graham Greene
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Rollo Martins, a failing novelist, is invited to Vienna by his best friend, Harry Lime. The city he arrives in is unrecognizable - torn apart by the Second World War and shared between the occupying Allies. What's more, Harry is dead, and the circumstances look suspicious . . . Determined to uncover the ...Show more
The Third Man and The Fallen Idol by Graham Greene
Category: Classics
With an introduction by Ian Thompson, "The Third Man" is Graham Greene's brilliant recreation of post-war Vienna, a 'smashed dreary city' occupied by the four Allied powers. Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless to visit his friend and hero, Harry Lime. But Harry has died in suspiciou ...Show more