Graham Greene Livres

" C'est la bouleversante histoire d'un amour qui dépasse la raison, qui submerge une vie et la transforme à jamais. La Fin d'une liaison est à mon avis le meilleur roman de Graham Greene. La simplicité de l'histoire renforce le propos, le cœur dramatique est d'une grande puissance et se concentre sur une idée : la façon dont, finalement, l'irrationnel est profondément lié à notre vie quotidienne. " Neil Jordan

Retraité d'une banque, Henry Pulling se consacre paisiblement à sa passion, la culture des dahlias. Jusqu'au jour où, sa mère étant décédée, il rencontre à l'incinération sa tante Augusta, qu'il n'a jamais vue qu'en photo. Cette femme étonnante, à la chevelure flamboyante malgré ses soixante-quinze ans, va prendre d'emblée sur lui un extraordinaire ascendant, et le précipiter dans un tourbillon d'événements, de voyages, de révélations, à commencer par celle du secret de sa naissance... Au contact de cette personnalité anticonformiste, imprévisible, amoureuse de la vie, Henry va découvrir des horizons qu'il ne soupçonnait pas. Nous entraînant allègrement de Brighton à Paris, d'Amérique du Sud à Istanbul, le romancier du Troisième Homme et de La Fin d'une liaison nous révèle ici une facette méconnue de son talent : la fantaisie, l'humour et un rythme à couper le souffle.

Plus d'un roman de Graham Greene compte au rang des chefs-d'oeuvre de langue anglaise du dernier demi-siècle. Tel est le cas d'Un Américain bien tranquille, de Notre agent à la Havane (chacun citera ses préférés) et de bien d'autres encore... Cette Saison des pluies fait partie de la liste considérable des livres de Greene qui ont cette caractéristique commune de nous distraire (ce sont des romans dont les personnages " sortent " littéralement des pages) tout en nous forçant - c'est une aubaine - à réfléchir. Ici, Greene, à travers Querry - l'architecte comblé qui décide de tout quitter pour se rendre au coeur de la forêt congolaise, dans la léproserie du docteur Colin - pose la question de la foi : reniement ? adhésion ? Le débat lancé par Greene, écrivain réputé catholique depuis la publication de La Puissance et la Gloire, souleva bien des discussions et une querelle avec son ami Evelyn Waugh, que l'auteur évoque dans sa préface. Le livre eut un immense écho et continue de se faire entendre du lecteur d'aujourd'hui. C'est une plongée " au coeur des ténèbres " à laquelle Greene, après Conrad, nous convoque ici.

Un scénario de 1944 oublié par son auteur. Une longue nouvelle dont le suspense est entretenu avec la maîtrise habituelle de l'écrivain. A noter que ce texte envoûtant n'est pas un fond-de-tiroir mais un dessus-de-panier.

Le Troisième homme, un " suspense " parfait dans lequel Graham Greene, écrivain lu dans le monde entier, met en scène un odieux trafiquant qui fait le mal en toute inconscience. Le troisième homme c'est aussi un film qui restera sans doute un des sommets de l'art du cinéma. Première désillusion, c'est le choc et la terreur éprouvés par un enfant quand, pour la première fois, il se trouve confronté, au cours d'une affaire tragique, au monde des adultes. Il découvre alors l'amour, la peur, la lâcheté.

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Mr Potter is a proud shopkeeper with a busy shop, until one day a big superstore opens across the street. The new store has a delivery service so Mr Potter employs an old little horse bus to deliver his wares. But when the superstore's delivery cart is stolen there is only one little horse bus to save the day!

FRAUD, MURDER, POLITICAL INTRIGUE AND HORROR IN FOUR STORIES OF VICTORIAN VILLAINY. The Great Tontine, considered to be Hawley Smart's best book, concerns the unforeseen dangers of trying to make money in a lottery. Arthur Griffiths made a special study of the French police, and his sardonic amusement over their methods is evident in the classic train thriller The Rome Express. In the Fog, Richard Harding Davis's ingeniously plotted novel, is one of the very best accounts of foggy Victorian London. Haunted by figures of strange horror, Richard Marsh's The Beetle shed fascinating sidelights on forgotten aspects of the Victorian age. All in all, a splendid selection of works rescued from dusty oblivion - a rare treat!

Rollo Martins, arrives penniless to visit his friend and hero, Harry Lime. But Harry has died in suspicious circumstances, and the police are closing in on his associates. This is the story of a small boy caught up in the games that adults play.

Affairs, obsessions, ardors, fantasy, myth, legends, dreams, fear, pity, and violence—this magnificent collection of stories illuminates all corners of the human experience. Including four previously uncollected stories, this new complete edition reveals Graham Greene in a range of contrasting moods, sometimes cynical and witty, sometimes searching and philosophical. Each of these forty-nine stories confirms V. S. Pritchett’s declaration that Greene is “a master of storytelling.”This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by Pico Iyer.

Graham Greene trained himself to wake four or five times during a night to record his dreams in a diary over a 25 year period. Before his death in 1991, he prepared this diary which provides readers with an insight into the world of Graham Greene.

A collection of eighteen short stories with cast & crew listing.

* The first book of Graham Greene's letters - the most intimate record we have of a life lived at the heart of modern history

A broad selection of Graham Greene's masterful short stories, including Cold War classic novella, The Third Man. Rollo Martins, a failing novelist, is invited to Vienna by his best friend, Harry Lime. The city he arrives in is unrecognisable -- 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 truth, Martins must pick through the rubble of this broken city in search of answers.

These short stories deal with the darker, more arid side of religion, love and life, but are lightened with humour and compassion.

UPDATED AND EDITED WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JUDITH ADAMSON Whether reporting from the London cinema, Cotswolds villages, second-hand bookshops, war zones or political trouble spots, Graham Greene's novelistic gifts for detail, drama and compassionate curiosity provide unique and resonant insights into his life and times. To know war on any continent, read ‘A Memory of Indo-China’; to glimpse high political chicanery, read ‘The Great Spectacular’; to feel the flush and aftermath of revolutionary change, take up his pieces about Cuba. Reflections provides an extraordinary mirror on the twentienth century from one of its greatest observers.

Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts.His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he s tempted. In return all he has to do is file a few reports. Bu

Three 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. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American and Jones the confidence man are the Comedians of Graham Greene's title.

A leak is traced to a small sub-section of the secret service, sparking off the inevitable security checks, tensions and suspicions. For Maurice Castle, it is the end of the line anyway, and time for him to retire to live peacefully with his wife and child. But no-one escapes so easily from the lonely, isolated, neurotic world of the SIS

With a new introduction by Zadie Smith 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 naïve optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as he intervenes he wonders why: for the sake of politics, or for love?

En katolsk præst og en afsat kommunistisk borgmester kører sammen rundt i Spanien i en gammel bil og kommer ud for en række sælsomme og muntre hændelser.

When Graham Greene passed away in 1991 at 86, he was recognized as a significant Catholic writer, known for his exploration of sin and challenging themes. His work in the British Catholic journal The Tablet allowed him to share both his literary endeavors and unconventional religious perspectives. Greene was particularly fascinated by martyrdom, and his experiences in 1930s Mexico, where Roman Catholicism faced severe oppression, inspired impactful journalism first published in The Tablet. This collection features four of his Mexico despatches: "Mexican Sunday," "A Catholic Adventurer and his Mexican Journal," "In Search of a Miracle," and "The Dark Virgin." Additionally, it includes a long essay on the Assumption, "Our Lady and Her The Only Figure of Perfect Love," from 1951, along with 26 book reviews for The Tablet's "Fiction Chronicle." Greene's reviews highlight his broad-mindedness, praising works by authors such as Ignazio Silone and Karel Čapek. This volume gathers Greene's contributions to The Tablet, much of which has not been published in fifty years. It also features "Two Friends," an essay detailing Greene's friendship with diplomat Peter Leslie, alongside previously unseen correspondence between them.

Affairs, obsessions, grand passions and tiny ardours are illuminated in this collection of 12 wryly humorous tales of love. Whether depicting the innocence and corruption of a honeymoon couple or the frustration of missed sexual opportunities, the stories expose a range of human frailties.

This collection of Graham Greene's letters to the press, begins in 1945 with a body of letters to "The Times". The letters dating from 1945 are supplemented by later ones to "The Independent", "The New Statesman", "Spectator" and "Le Monde".

At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of superior 20th-century writers that includes Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Isaac Babel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Cheever, Sean O'Faolain, Graham Greene, Robert Penn Warren, Colette, John Updike, Donald Barthelme, and James Thurber. (Regrettably, J. D. Salinger is not included due to lack of permission.) Here is a truly remarkable collection of this century's short stories that readers from all over the world will read with delight.

When the alcoholic British 'Honorary Consul' in an Argentinian town is kidnapped by a band of revolutionaries, a local doctor negotiates with his captors and with the authorities for the man's release, but the corruption of both soon comes to the fore. From the author of OUR MAN IN HAVANA and THE HUMAN FACTOR.

Here in one volume are three of the best thrillers - or "entertainments" as the author calls them - that Graham Greene has written. These earlier full-length novels are no less the work of a distinguished artist and master storyteller.

For Arthur Rowe the trip to the charity fete was a joyful step back into adolescence, a chance to forget the nightmare of the Blitz and the guilt of having mercifully murdered his sick wife. He was surviving alone, aside from the War, until he happened to win a cake at the fete. From that moment, he finds himself ruthlessly hunted, the quarry of malign and shadowy forces, from which he endeavors to escape ...

Contains nearly 80 of Greene's essays, reviews and occasional pieces composed between novels, plays and travel books over four decades, covering an eclectic and stimulating range of subjects. Originally published by the Bodley Head in 1969.

A collection of four stories comprising Under The Garden' (A short novel); A Visit to the Morin'; Dream of a Strange Land' and A Discovery in the Woods'. In these four stories Graham Greene, one of the master of modern English fiction, has allowed himself the liberty of fantasy, myth, legend and dream. The results are, quite simply, superb.

An anthology of the best comic writing in Punch from 1841 to 1991.

Ten unabridged short stories by twentieth-century authors of various nationalities, including Hemingway, Joyce, Naipaul, Dahl, Greene, and Lessing.

Inhaltsverzeichnis - 'The end of the party'; 'The basement room'; 'A drive in the country'; 'The hint of explanation'; 'The destructors'.

A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller exposes a world of loneliness and fear, of life lived on the 'dangerous edge of things.' In this gripping, terrifying, and unputdownable read, discover Greene's iconic tale of the razor-wielding Pinkie. 'Brighton Rock when I was about thirteen. One of the first lessons I took from it was that a serious novel could be an exciting novel - that the novel of adventure could also be the novel of ideas' Ian McEwan WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEE

Greene's account of a five year personal involvement with Omar Torrijos, ruler of Panama from 1968-81 and Sergeant Chuchu, one of the few men in the National Guard whom the General trusted completely. It is a fascinating tribute to an inspirational politician in the vital period of his country's history, and to an unusual and enduring friendship

With superb skill and feeling, Graham Greene retraces the experiences and encounters of his extraordinary life. as if seeking out danger, Greene travelled to Haiti during the nightmare rule of Papa Doc, Vietnam in the last days of the French, Kenya during the Mau Mau rebellion.

Strange characters and mysterious threats will keep readers enraptured in this tale of a man who revisits his childhood home and recalls a youthful adventure "under the garden".

Graham Greene's autobiographical account of schooldays and Oxford; encounters with adolescence, psychoanalysis and Russian roulette, his marriage and conversion to Catholicism and how he rashly resigned from the Times when his first novel was published.

The stories in this book, all written between 1929 and 1954, share the themes that feature so strongly in Graham Greene's novels: humour and violence, pity and hatred, betrayal and pursuit. Comic, sad, shocking and tragic, they recount the tales of Mr. Maling's loud stomach, destructive gangs of children, indiscretions revealed and secrets uncovered.

Part of the Writers' Britain series, first published in the 1940s. This work offers Graham Greene's evaluation of British drama, from its roots in the Mystery and Miracle plays of the market carnival through Shakespeare and the Restoration to the 20th century.

Bertram is not a believer in luck. An unambitious accountant, his plans for his second marriage are typically quiet: St. Luke’s then two weeks in Bournemouth. But he comes to the attention of Dreuther, the director of his company, who changes Bertram’s plans for him: wedding and honeymoon in Monte Carlo, on board his private yacht. Inevitably Bertram visits the casino, and loses. But then his system starts working, and his trouble really begins.

The detective, Mather, searches for a professional assassin, who unknowingly has kidnapped Mather's fiancee

WITH A FOREWORD BY TIM BUTCHER AND AN INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUX In 1935 Graham Greene set off to discover Liberia, a remote and unfamiliar West African republic founded for released slaves. Crossing the red-clay terrain from Sierra Leone to the coast at Grand Bassa with a chain of porters, he came to know one of the few areas of Africa untouched by Western colonisation.

Doctor Fischer despises the human race. When the notorious toothpaste millionaire decides to hold his own deadly version of the Book of Revelations, Greene opens up a powerful vision of the limitless greed of the rich; black comedy and painful satire combine in a totally compelling novel. (Source: back cover)

As the Orient express crosses Europe, it seems to draw a trail of lust, murder, revolution and intrigue from Ostend to Constantinople ...

Victor Baxter is a young boy when a secretive stranger known simply as "the Captain" takes him from his boarding school to live in London. Victor becomes the surrogate son and companion of a woman named Liza, who renames him "Jim" and depends on him for any news about the world outside their door. Raised in these odd yet touching circumstances, Jim is never quite sure of Liza's relationship to the Captain, who is often away on mysterious errands. It is not until Jim reaches manhood that he confronts the Captain and learns the shocking truth about the man, his allegiances, and the nature of love. This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by John Auchard.

Anthony Farrant has always found his way, lying to get jobs and borrowing money to get by when he leaves them in a hurry. His twin suster Kate persuades him to move and sets him up with a job as a bodyguard to Krogh, which has drastic results.

This collection of fiction from around the world is concerned with censorship taboos and includes work from writers who remain censored, exiled or imprisoned. It includes writing by Willaim Trevor, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Aicha Lemsing and Breyten Breytenbach.

В книге предлагается произведение Г.Грина "Третий человек", адаптированное (без упрощения текста оригинала) по методу Ильи Франка. Уникальность метода заключается в том, что запоминание слов и выражений происходит за счет их повторяемости, без заучивания и необходимости использовать словарь.Пособие способствует эффективному освоению языка, может служить дополнением к учебникам по грамматике или к основным занятиям. Предназначено для студентов, для изучающих английский язык самостоятельно, а также для всех интересующихся английской культурой.

The Living Room ; The Potting Shed ; The Complaisant Lover ; Carving a Statue ; The Return of A.J. Raffles ; The Great Jowett ; Yes and No ; For Whom the Bell Chimes .In these eight plays Graham Greene demonstrates his skill as a dramatist. The Living Room portrays a love triangle, and Carving a Statue , his most innovative play, portrays an artist in pursuit of his masterpiece, a depiction of God the Father. The other plays The Return of AJ Raffles , a glorious Edwardian comedy; The Great Jowett , Greene's only radio play; The Potting Shed ; The Complaisant Lover ; Yes and No ; and For Whom the Bell Chimes .

Published in 1932 as an 'entertainment', Graham Greene's gripping spy thriller unfolds aboard the majestic Orient Express as it crosses Europe from Ostend to Istanbul. Weaving a web of subterfuge, murder and politics along the way, the novel focuses upon the disturbing relationship between Myatt, the pragmatic Jew, and naive chorus girl Coral Musker as they engage in a desperate, angst-ridden pas-de-deux before a chilling turn of events spells an end to the unlikely interlude. Exploring the many shades of despair and hope, innocence and duplicity, Stamboul Train offers a poignant testimony to Greene's extraordinary powers of insight into the human condition.