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TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT

GRAHAM GREENE

Greene's fine sense of humor is displayed in this warm and far-reaching comic novel, Travels with My Aunt, a bestseller when it appeared originally. At his mother's funeral, Henry Pulling, a stuffy, retired bank manager with an interest in dahlias, meets his Aunt Augusta. The indomitable Aunt Augusta pulls Henry along on a whirlwind adventure traveling with an old lover, Wordsw...

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A WORLD OF MY OWN

GRAHAM GREENE

The British author shares the "strange . . . inner layers of his playful, guilty imagination" in this glimpse into a brilliant novelist's subconscious ( The New York Times). Culled from nearly eight hundred pages of the author's "dream diaries" kept between 1965 and 1989, this singular journal reveals "the feverish inner life of an intensely private man, providing an uncanny ...

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THE POTTING SHED

GRAHAM GREENE

From the acclaimed author, this Tony Award–winning drama of family secrets delivers "brilliantly effective . . . enormously provocative . . . theatrical suspense" ( New York Post ). The Callifer family has assembled in the English country home of Wild Grove where its patriarch—a once-renowned rationalist and man of letters—nears death. Arriving unexpectedly to pay his respects ...

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THE LIVING ROOM

GRAHAM GREENE

The illicit affair of a devout woman in London ignites a shattering family crisis in the author's "ruthlessly honest" first play ( The Guardian ). In a dour Holland Park house with rooms and secrets long shuttered live three unyielding forces for morality: rigidly religious sisters Helen and Teresa, and their brother, a Roman Catholic priest. Into the lives of this insular trio...

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THE LOST CHILDHOOD

GRAHAM GREENE

From Dickens to Wilde—literary criticism and personal reflections by a master "unmatched . . . in his uncanny psychological insights" ( The New York Times ). Graham Greene shares his love affair with reading in this collection of essays, memories, and critical considerations, both affectionate and tart, "[that] could have come from no other source than the author of Brighton Ro...

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A SENSE OF REALITY

GRAHAM GREENE

With his "sheer mastery of narrative," the British novelist takes a detour into the uncanny and wondrously absurd in these "compelling" stories ( The Guardian ). An ambitious departure for an author renowned for his realism, this collection of short fiction "collectively . . . [engages] in a reconnaissance through the dustier reaches of man's experience with [the] spectres of d...

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THE COMPLAISANT LOVER

GRAHAM GREENE

A "delicious . . . champagne cocktail" of a stage comedy about a sporting British couple's marital—and extramarital—propositions ( New York Herald Tribune ). Victor Rhodes, a hearty and amiable dentist in North London, has what he thinks is a happy marriage. It's stable, routine, and comfortably platonic. Five years and counting, his wife, Mary, feels the same way. That's why s...

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TWENTY-ONE STORIES

GRAHAM GREENE

These wide-ranging tales of menace, tragedy, and comedy offer ample proof that "in the short story, as well as the novel, Graham Greene is the master" ( The New York Times ). In "The End of the Party," a game of hide-and-seek takes a terrifying turn in the dark. In "The Innocent," a romantic gets a rude awakening when he finds a hidden keepsake from a childhood crush. A husband...

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THE LAWLESS ROADS

GRAHAM GREENE

"A singularly beautiful travel book" and an eyewitness account of religious and political persecution in Mexico from the author of The Power and the Glory ( New Statesman ). In 1938, Graham Greene, a burgeoning convert to Roman Catholicism, was commissioned to expose the anticlerical purges in Mexico by President Plutarco El as Calles. Churches had been destroyed, peasants held...

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THE CAPTAIN AND THE ENEMY

GRAHAM GREENE

In postwar London, a boy is drawn into a labyrinth of personal betrayals, intrigue, love, and revolution: "In short, a tremendous yarn" (Paul Theroux, author of The Great Railway Bazaar ). On his twelfth birthday, Victor Baxter is spirited away from boarding school by a stranger known only as the Captain who claims to have won him in a backgammon game with the boy's diabolical ...

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ORIENT EXPRESS

GRAHAM GREENE

From "the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety," a novel of the interlocked fates of strangers on an international train (William Golding, Nobel Prize–winning author of Lord of the Flies ). The Orient Express has embarked from Ostend, Belgium for a three-day journey to Cologne, Vienna, and Constantinople. The passenger list includes a Jewish ...

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A GUN FOR SALE

GRAHAM GREENE

A detective and a chorus girl stalk the shadows of a murderer in this thriller from "a pioneer of the modern mood we now think of as noir" ( LA Weekly ). Born out of a brutal childhood, Raven is an assassin for hire whose latest hit—a government minister—is one calculated to ignite a war. When the most wanted man in England is paid off in marked bills, he also becomes the easie...

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IT'S A BATTLEFIELD

GRAHAM GREENE

An "adventurous . . . intelligent . . . ingenious" novel of crime and punishment in pre-World War II London (V.S. Pritchett, author of The Sailor and The Saint ). During a demonstration in Hyde Park, Communist bus driver Jim Drover acts on instinct to protect his wife by stabbing to death the policeman set to strike her down. Sentenced to hang—whether as a martyr, tool, or murd...

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MAY WE BORROW YOUR HUSBAND?

GRAHAM GREENE

"The sense of the author at play dominates" in this short story collection as the award-winning author looks at love, lies, mortality and seduction ( The New York Times ). A bored faculty wife looking for a fling discovers something more illuminating than sex; a jaded writer who eavesdrops on a pair of hopeful lovers feels compelled to relieve them of their foolish ideals and a...

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THE MAN WITHIN

GRAHAM GREENE

The "strikingly original" debut novel by the award-winning British author is "a perfect adventure" of love and smuggling on the English coast ( The Nation ). Francis Andrews is a reluctant smuggler living in the shadow of his brutish father's legacy. To exorcise the ghosts of the man he loathes, Andrews betrays his colleagues to authorities and takes flight across the downs. It...

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LOSER TAKES ALL

GRAHAM GREENE

A Monte Carlo honeymoon becomes a gamble in Graham Greene's "superbly well told" comedy of love, marriage, and risk (J.B. Priestley, author of An Inspector Calls ). A modest London accountant on a budget, Mr. Bertram has settled on a honeymoon at the seaside resort of Bournemouth with his fiancée, Cary. However, Bertram's boss, the solicitous Herbert Dreuther, won't hear of any...

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THE CONFIDENTIAL AGENT

GRAHAM GREENE

In Greene's "magnificent tour-de-force among tales of international intrigue," rival agents engage in a deadly game of cat and mouse in prewar England ( The New York Times ). D., a widowed professor of Romance literature, has arrived in Dover on a peaceful yet important mission. He's to negotiate a contract to buy coal for his country, one torn by civil war. With it, there's a ...

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JOURNEY WITHOUT MAPS

GRAHAM GREENE

The British author embarks on an awe-inspiring trek through 1930s West Africa in " one of the best travel books [of the twentieth] century " ( The Independent). When Graham Greene left Liverpool in 1935 for what was then an Africa unmarked by colonization, it was to leave the known transgressions of his own civilization behind for those unknown. First by cargo ship, then by t...

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THE HEART OF THE MATTER

GRAHAM GREENE

"From first page to last . . . an engrossing novel" of betrayal and espionage at a colonial outpost during World War II ( The New York Times ). In a British colony in West Africa, Henry Scobie is a pious and righteous man of modest means enlisted with securing borders. But when he's passed over for a promotion as commissioner of police, the humiliation hits hardest for his wife...

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TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT

GRAHAM GREENE

A retired London bank manager is yanked out of the suburbs by his eccentric aunt for a "cheerfully irreverent" romp across Europe ( The Guardian ). Now that the dullish Henry Pulling has left his job with an agreeable pension and a firm handshake, he plans to spend more time weeding his dahlias. Then, for the first time in fifty years, he sees his aunt Augusta at his mother's f...

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OUR MAN IN HAVANA

GRAHAM GREENE

Adapted into the 1959 film starring Alec Guinness, this Telegraph Top 20 Spy Novel of All Time is "high-comic mayhem . . . [and] bizarrely prescient" (Christopher Buckley, New York Times –bestselling author). James Wormold, a cash-strapped vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana, finds the answer to his prayers when British Intelligence offers him a lucrative job as an undercover age...

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THE COMEDIANS

GRAHAM GREENE

Strangers in Port-au-Prince are united in the corruption, fear, and revolt of Duvalier-era Haiti in "the most interesting novel of [Greene's] career" ( The Nation ). Haiti, under the rule of Papa Doc and his menacing paramilitary, the Tontons Macoute, has long been abandoned by tourists. Now it is home to corrupt capitalists, foreign ambassadors and their lonely wives—and a sma...

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BRIGHTON ROCK

GRAHAM GREENE

From the acclaimed author of The Quiet American, a sociopath rises to power in Britain's criminal underworld in this "brilliant and uncompromising" thriller ( The New York Times ). Seventeen-year-old Pinkie Brown, raised amid the casual violence and corruption in the dire prewar Brighton slums, has left his final judgment in the hands of God. On the streets, impelled by his own...

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A BURNT-OUT CASE

GRAHAM GREENE

A famous architect struggling with a crisis of faith escapes to a leper colony in the Congo, in Graham Greene's "greatest novel" ( Time ). Querry is a world-renowned architect noted for his magnificent churches, each designed not for the glory of God, but for the satisfaction of self. Suddenly infected with indifference, he has abandoned his pursuit of pleasure. Now he has reac...

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THE MINISTRY OF FEAR

GRAHAM GREENE

In London during the Blitz, an amnesiac must outwit a twisted Nazi plot in this "master thriller" of espionage, murder, and deception ( Time Magazine ) . On a peaceful Sunday afternoon, Arthur Rowe comes upon a charity fete in the gardens of a Cambridgeshire vicarage where he wins a game of chance. If only this were an ordinary day. Britain is under threat by Germany, and the a...

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THE END OF THE AFFAIR

GRAHAM GREENE

Graham Greene's masterful novel of love and betrayal in World War II London is "undeniably a major work of art" ( The New Yorker ). Maurice Bendrix, a writer in Clapham during the Blitz, develops an acquaintance with Sarah Miles, the bored, beautiful wife of a dull civil servant named Henry. Maurice claims it's to divine a character for his novel-in-progress. That's the first d...

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THE QUIET AMERICAN

GRAHAM GREENE

A "masterful . . . brilliantly constructed novel" of love and chaos in 1950s Vietnam (Zadie Smith, The Guardian ). It's 1955 and British journalist Thomas Fowler has been in Vietnam for two years covering the insurgency against French colonial rule. But it's not just a political tangle that's kept him tethered to the country. There's also his lover, Phuong, a young Vietnamese w...

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THE POWER AND THE GLORY

GRAHAM GREENE

One of TIME Magazine's 100 best English-language novels, this tale of a fugitive priest in Mexico is quite simply "Graham Greene's masterpiece" (John Updike, The New York Review of Books ). In the Mexican state of Tabasco in the 1930s, all vestiges of Catholicism are being outlawed by the government. As churches are razed, icons are banned, and the price of devotion is executio...

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EL REVÉS DE LA TRAMA

GREENE GRAHAM

El comandante de policía Henry Scobie y su mujer Louise viven desde hace años junto a otros funcionarios británicos en una remota colonia de África Occidental. Un entorno asfixiante que todos están deseando abandonar, especialmente Louise. Henry, por su parte, es un hombre íntegro que acepta estoicamente su situación y su matrimonio con una mujer por la que siente compasión más...

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THE END OF THE AFFAIR

GRAHAM GREENE

Now, a year after Sarah's death, Bendrix seeks to exorcise the persistence of passion by retracing its course from obsessive love to love-hate. At the start he believes he hates Sarah and her husband, Henry. By the end of the book, Bendrix's hatred has shifted to the God he feels has broken his life but whose existence he has at last come to recognize. ...

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