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Graham Greene

(Henry Graham Greene)

(1904 - 1991)

About Graham Greene

Graham Greene worked as a journalist and critic, and was later employed by the foreign office. His many books include The Third Man, The Comedians and Travels with My Aunt. He is the subject of an acclaimed three-volume biography by Norman Sherry.

Novels

The Man Within (1929)
The Name of Action (1930)
Rumour At Nightfall (1931)
Stamboul Train (1932)
     aka The Orient Express
It's a Battlefield (1934)
England Made Me (1935)
     aka The Shipwrecked
The Bear Fell Free (1935)
A Gun for Sale (1936)
     aka This Gun For Hire
Brighton Rock (1938)
The Confidential Agent (1939)
The Heart of the Matter (1940)
The Power and the Glory (1940)
     aka The Labyrinthine Ways
The Ministry of Fear (1943)
The Third Man (1950)
The End of the Affair (1951)
Loser Takes All (1955)
The Quiet American (1955)
Our Man in Havana (1958)
A Burnt-Out Case (1960)
The Comedians (1966)
Travels with My Aunt (1969)
The Honorary Consul (1973)
The Human Factor (1978)
Doctor Fischer of Geneva: or The Bomb Party (1980)
Monsignor Quixote (1982)
Getting to Know the General (1984)
The Tenth Man (1985)
The Captain and the Enemy (1988)

Omnibus

The Fallen Idol / The Third Man (1989)

Collections

Plays

The Potting Shed (1957)
The Return Of A.J. Raffles (1975)

Picture Books

The Little Train (1946)
The Little Fire Engine (1950)
The Little Horse Bus (1952)

Novellas

No Man's Land (2004)

Anthologies edited

The Old School (1934)
The Spy's Bedside Book (1957) (with Hugh Greene)
Classic Tales of Espionage and Suspense (1992)

Non fiction

Journey Without Maps (1936)
The Lawless Roads (1939)
aka Another Mexico
British Dramatists (1942)
Why Do I Write: An Exchange of Views between Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene and V.S. Pritchett (1948) (with Elizabeth Bowen and V S Pritchett)
In Search of a Character: Two African Journals (1961)
Collected Essays (1969)
A Sort of Life (1971)
Pleasure Dome: The Collected Film Criticism 1935-40 (1972)
Lord Rochester's Monkey: Being the Life of John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (1974)
Ways of Escape (1980)
The Heritage of British Literature (1983) (with Elizabeth Bowen, Anthony Burgess, Lord David Cecil and Kate O'Brien)
The Life of Graham Greene. Volume One: 1904 - 1939 (1989) (with Sherry Norman)
Reflections 1923 - 1988 (1990)
Yours Etc.: Letters to the Press, 1945-89 (1991)
Fragments of Autobiography (1991)
Articles of Faith: The Collected Tablet Journalism of Graham Greene (2006)

Anthologies containing stories by Graham Greene

Twentieth Century Short Stories (1959)
A Chamber of Horrors (1965)
The 6th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1971)
London Tales of Terror (1972)
Great British Short Stories (1974)
Black Water (1984)
The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories (1991)
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996)

Short stories

	A Little Place Off the Edgware Road (1941)
	All But Empty (1947)
	Awful When You Think of It
	Beauty
	Chagrin in Three Parts
	Cheap in August
	The Destructors
	Doctor Crombie
	The End of the Party
	The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen
	May We Borrow Your Husband?
	Mortmain
	The Over-Night Bag
	The Root of All Evil
	A Shocking Accident
	Two Gentle People

Books about Graham Greene

Graham Greene (1966) by David Lodge
Graham Greene: The Films of His Fiction (1974) by Gene D Phillips
Novels of Graham Greene (1982) by David Lodge
Saints, Sinners and Comedians: The Novels of Graham Greene (1984) by Roger Sharrock
Travels in Greeneland: The Cinema of Graham Greene (1985) by Quentin Falk
Graham Greene Country (1986) by Paul Hogarth
Reader's Guide to Graham Greene (1988) by Paul O'Prey
Graham Greene: The Enemy Within (1994) by Michael Shelden
Graham Greene: Friend and brother (1994) by Leopoldo Durán
The Life of Graham Greene: 1939-1955 (1994) by Norman Sherry
Graham Greene: An Intimate Portrait by His Closest Friend and Confidant (1995) by Leopoldo Durán
Graham Greene's Thrillers and the 1930s (1996) by Brian Diemert
Life of Graham Greene: 1904-1939 (1996) by Norman Sherry
Graham Greene's Fictions: The Virtues of Extremity (2000) by Cates Baldridge
Greene on Capri (2000) by Shirley Hazzard
The Life of Graham Greene: 1955-1991 (2004) by Norman Sherry
The Human Imperative: A Study of the Novels of Graham Greene (2005) by Stephen K Land
In Search Of A Beginning: My Life With Graham Greene (2005) by Marie-Francoise Allain and Yvonne Cloetta
The Third Spring: G.K. Chesterton, Graham Greene, Christopher Dawson and David Jones (2005) by Adam Schwartz
The Films of Graham Greene (2006) by Adrian Wootton

Graham Greene recommends

Mrs Craddock (1902) W Somerset Maugham "A writer of great dedication."	The Bachelor of Arts (1937) R K Narayan "Without him I could never have known what it is like to be Indian."	The Mask of Dimitrios (1937) Eric Ambler "Our greatest thriller writer."
Strangers On a Train (1950) Patricia Highsmith "Highsmith is a novelist whose books one can re-read many times. There are few of whom one can say that."	The West Pier (1952) (Gorse Trilogy, book 1) Patrick Hamilton "The best novel written about Brighton."	The Price of Salt (1952) Clare Morgan (Patricia Highsmith) "Highsmith is a novelist whose books one can re-read many times. There are few of whom one can say that."
Story of O (1954) (Story of O, book 1) Pauline Réage "A rare thing, a pornographic book well written and without a trace of obscenity."	A Dog's Ransom (1972) Patricia Highsmith "The poet of apprehension."	The Bottle Factory Outing (1974) Beryl Bainbridge "An outrageously funny and horrifying novel."
Little Tales of Misogyny (1974) Patricia Highsmith "This work attesets to Highsmith's reputation as "the poet of apprehension."	Notes for a Life (1974) Bryan Forbes "Compulsively readable."	Selected Stories (1975) Nadine Gordimer "A magnificent collection worthy of homage."
Souls and Bodies (1981) David Lodge "A magnificent book... enormously enjoyable."	The Complete Short Stories of Raffles (1984) (A J Raffles) E W Hornung "It is a splendid idea to collect together the complete short stories of Raffles."

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