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Discover Graham Green's prescient political masterpiece'The novel that I love the most is The Quiet American' Ian McEwanInto the intrigue and violence of 1950s Indo-China comes CIA agent Alden Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'.

Discover Graham Greene's blackly comic and timely espionage thriller, set amid the vice and squalor of pre-revolutionary Havana. 'British Intelligence being sent up something rotten' Daily Telegraph Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power cuts.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUXThree men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt 'Papa Doc' and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. And, to begin with, they are men afraid of love, afraid of pain, afraid of fear itself...

Graham Greene proves a wonderful storyteller in this hilarious tale of the eccentricity of families and the pomposity of the middle class.Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, his dahlias and the Major next door to travel her way, Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay. Through Aunt Augusta, a veteran of Europe's hotel bedrooms, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society: mixing with hippies, war criminals, CIA men; smoking pot, breaking all the currency regulations and eventually coming alive after a dull suburban life. In Travels with my Aunt Graham Greene not only gives us intoxicating entertainment but also confronts us with some of the most perplexing of human dilemmas.

"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look ahead..." "This is a record of hate far more than of love," writes Maurice Bendrix in the opening passages of The End of the Affair, and it is a strange hate indeed that compels him to set down the retrospective account of his adulterous affair with Sarah Miles. Now, a year after Sarah's death, Bendrix seeks to exorcise the persistence of his passion by retracing its course from obsessive love to love-hate. At first, he believes he hates Sarah and her husband, Henry. Yet as he delves further into his emotional outlook, Bendrix's hatred shifts to the God he feels has broken his life, but whose existence at last comes to recognize. Originally published in 1951, The End of the Affair was acclaimed by William Faulkner as "for me one of the best, most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody's language." This Penguin Deluxe Edition features an introduction by Michael Gorra.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOODScobie, a police officer serving in a war-time West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.

Believing he can escape retribution, Pinkie is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold, who is determined to uncover him. Few, if any, can match the originality of Brighton Rock, and of Pinkie - one of fiction's most unnerving and compelling villains.

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 malign and shadowy forces from which he tries to escape with a mind that is out of focus.

Graham Greene's powerful novel of good, evil and adolescent rebellion.

The iconic writer's travel log from the uncharted shores of West Africa.

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.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MONICA ALIThe love affair between Maurice Bendrix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off.

Boka handler om den pensjonerte bankmannen Henry Pulling, med interesse for georginer og hjemmets lune ro, og hans tante Augusta som er opptatt av helt andre ting. Hun får lurt sin nevø med på de mest fantastiske ekspedisjoner, og sammen opplever de en rekke hendelser som ihvertfall ikke han hadde forestilt seg var mulig.

Maurice og Sarah var en gang lidenskapelig forelsket i hverandre, men Sarah brøt forbindelsen. Da Maurice møter Sarahs mann Henry kommer alle de gamle følelsene tilbake, men denne gangen farligere og mørkere. Boken er filmatisert.

En lekkasje blir sporet tilbake til en liten avdeling av SIS, og dette fører til sikkerhetskontroller, spenninger og mistanker. Dette skaper en atmosfære hvor det kanskje er lett å gjøre feil, men for den litt kjedelige, men brilliante Maurice Castle er det uansett på tide å pensjonere seg for å leve i ro og fred med sin afrikanske kone, Sarah.

Few novelists have taken films as seriously, or been involved in so many aspects of the film business, as Graham Greene. His experience included producing, performing, script-writing and adaptation. This book presents some of Greene's best film criticism with a mass of related material: film articles, interviews, lectures, radio talks, and more.

Part of the TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS series, this is a novel whose theme is the destructiveness of an inability to love. Victor was 12 years old when the Captain took him away from school claiming, that the boy, now reborn as Jim Smith, had been won from his father at backgammon, or was it chess? Jim tries to piece the story together.

Early one morning the little train wakes up in his home town, Little Snoreing, and decides to go on an adventure. First published by The Bodley Head in 1974, this new edition brings the classic little train back to life for a whole new generation.