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In a range of work including novels of literary suspense that test both their protagonists’ souls and their readers’ nerves to the breaking point, Graham Greene explored a territory located somewhere on the border between despair and faith, treachery and love. This volume includes the complete novels The Heart of the Matterand The Third Man, along with excerpts from ten other novels; short stories; selections from Greene’s memoirs and travel writings; essays on English and American literature; and public statements on issues that range from repression in the Soviet Union to torture in Northern Ireland to the paradoxical virtue of disloyalty.

Graham Greene (1904-û1991) began to attract notice as a novelist in 1932 with his fourth book, Orient Express. He converted to Catholicism in 1926, a transformation that influenced several -ôCatholic-ö novels, including Brighton Rock, The Heart of the Matter, and The End of the Affair. During World War II he worked for the British secret service in Sierra Leone; afterward he began wide-ranging travels as a journalist, reflected in such novels as The Quiet American and Travels with My Aunt. As well as his many novels, Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, two books of autobiography, two biographies, and four books for children.

The Portable Graham Greene Introduction
Principal Dates, Travels, Books
Bibliographical Notes

I. Reminiscences

Editor's Preface
Primary Symbols
The Future Strikes
Life on the Border
Russian Roulette
First Travels
A Salmon Tea
Journey Back
A Discovery
Return
Africa Revisited

II. Fiction

Editor's Preface
The End of the Party
Minty's Day
The Innocent
A Marriage Proposal
The Prison Cell
The Heart of the Matter
The Third Man
The Destructors
A Small Affair
A Shocking Accident
The Signing-Up of 59200/5
The Blessing
Cheap in August
Travel Tips from Aunt Augusta
The Wedding Reception
Monsignor Quixote and Sancho on Doubt

III. Criticism

Editor's Preface
The Lesson of the Master
From Feathers to Iron
Rider Haggard's Secret
Francois Mauriac
The Redemption of Mr. Joyboy
Ford Madox Ford
Frederick Rolfe: Edwardian Inferno
"Sore Bones; Much Headache"
John Gerard
The Novelist and the Short Story

IV. Commitments

Editor's Preface
Two Statements on Commitment
Convenience and Morality
The Last Pope
Colette's Funeral Rites
Unholy Waugh
A Superstition to Live By
Slide into Barbarism
Letter to a West German Friend
The Daniel-Sinyavsky Trial
Shame of the Catholics, Shame of the English
What's Wrong with the Gospels?
A Misguided Pope
The Great Spectacular
The Meeting in the Kremlin
The Virtue of Disloyalty

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The Portable Graham Greene

The Portable Graham Greene

0143039180

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