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.
Genres: Literary Fiction
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
A Gun for Sale (1936)
aka This Gun For Hire
Brighton Rock (1938)
The Confidential Agent (1939)
The Power and the Glory (1940)
aka The Labyrinthine Ways
The Ministry of Fear (1943)
The Heart of the Matter (1948)
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 (1980)
Monsignor Quixote (1982)
The Tenth Man (1985)
The Captain and the Enemy (1988)
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
A Gun for Sale (1936)
aka This Gun For Hire
Brighton Rock (1938)
The Confidential Agent (1939)
The Power and the Glory (1940)
aka The Labyrinthine Ways
The Ministry of Fear (1943)
The Heart of the Matter (1948)
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 (1980)
Monsignor Quixote (1982)
The Tenth Man (1985)
The Captain and the Enemy (1988)
Omnibus
Collections
Babbling April (poems) (1925)
Nineteen Stories (1947)
A Sense of Reality (1950)
Twenty-One Stories (1954)
May We Borrow Your Husband? (1967)
The Portable Graham Greene (1973)
Selected Works (1977)
Favourite Spy Stories (1981) (with Joseph Conrad, Alphonse Daudet, Len Deighton, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, John Le Carré, William le Queux, Wolfgang Lotz, Sax Rohmer and Dennis Wheatley)
Collected Short Stories (1987)
The Last Word (1990)
The End of the Party (1992)
The Collected Plays (2002)
Complete Short Stories (2005)
Nineteen Stories (1947)
A Sense of Reality (1950)
Twenty-One Stories (1954)
May We Borrow Your Husband? (1967)
The Portable Graham Greene (1973)
Selected Works (1977)
Favourite Spy Stories (1981) (with Joseph Conrad, Alphonse Daudet, Len Deighton, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, John Le Carré, William le Queux, Wolfgang Lotz, Sax Rohmer and Dennis Wheatley)
Collected Short Stories (1987)
The Last Word (1990)
The End of the Party (1992)
The Collected Plays (2002)
Complete Short Stories (2005)
Plays
Picture Books
Novellas
Anthologies edited
Non fiction
Journey Without Maps (1936)
The Lawless Roads (1939)
aka Another Mexico
British Dramatists (1942)
Why Do I Write (1948) (with Elizabeth Bowen and V S Pritchett)
In Search of a Character (1961)
Collected Essays (1969)
A Sort of Life (1971)
Pleasure Dome (1972)
Lord Rochester's Monkey (1974)
Ways of Escape (1980)
The Heritage of British Literature (1983) (with Elizabeth Bowen, Anthony Burgess, Lord David Cecil and Kate O'Brien)
Getting to Know the General (1984)
The Life of Graham Greene. Volume One (1989) (with Sherry Norman)
Yours Etc. (1989)
Reflections 1923 - 1988 (1990)
Fragments of Autobiography (1991)
Articles of Faith (2006)
The Last Interview (2019)
The Lawless Roads (1939)
aka Another Mexico
British Dramatists (1942)
Why Do I Write (1948) (with Elizabeth Bowen and V S Pritchett)
In Search of a Character (1961)
Collected Essays (1969)
A Sort of Life (1971)
Pleasure Dome (1972)
Lord Rochester's Monkey (1974)
Ways of Escape (1980)
The Heritage of British Literature (1983) (with Elizabeth Bowen, Anthony Burgess, Lord David Cecil and Kate O'Brien)
Getting to Know the General (1984)
The Life of Graham Greene. Volume One (1989) (with Sherry Norman)
Yours Etc. (1989)
Reflections 1923 - 1988 (1990)
Fragments of Autobiography (1991)
Articles of Faith (2006)
The Last Interview (2019)
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 (1983)
The Literary Ghost (1991)
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996)
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 (1983)
The Literary Ghost (1991)
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996)
Short stories
Awful When You Think of It | |||
Beauty | |||
Chagrin in Three Parts | |||
Cheap in August | |||
The Destructors | |||
Doctor Crombie | |||
The End of the Party [short story] | |||
The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen | |||
May We Borrow Your Husband? [short story] | |||
Mortmain | |||
The Over-Night Bag | |||
The Root of All Evil | |||
A Shocking Accident | |||
Two Gentle People | |||
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road (1941) | |||
All But Empty (1947) |
Books about Graham Greene
Graham Greene (1963) by David Pryce-Jones
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
Travels in Greeneland (1984) by Quentin Falk
Saints, Sinners and Comedians (1984) by Roger Sharrock
Graham Greene Country (1986) by Paul Hogarth
Reader's Guide to Graham Greene (1988) by Paul O'Prey
The Life of Graham Greene: 1939-1955 (1994) by Norman Sherry
Graham Greene (1995) by Leopoldo Durán
Graham Greene: Friend and brother (1995) by Leopoldo Durán
Graham Greene (1995) by Michael Shelden
Life of Graham Greene: 1904-1939 (1996) by Norman Sherry
Graham Greene's Thrillers and the 1930s (1996) by Brian Diemert
Graham Greene's Fictions (2000) by Cates Baldridge
Greene on Capri (2000) by Shirley Hazzard
In Search Of A Beginning (2004) by Marie-Francoise Allain and Yvonne Cloetta
The Life of Graham Greene: 1955-1991 (2004) by Norman Sherry
The Films of Graham Greene (2006) by Adrian Wootton
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
Travels in Greeneland (1984) by Quentin Falk
Saints, Sinners and Comedians (1984) by Roger Sharrock
Graham Greene Country (1986) by Paul Hogarth
Reader's Guide to Graham Greene (1988) by Paul O'Prey
The Life of Graham Greene: 1939-1955 (1994) by Norman Sherry
Graham Greene (1995) by Leopoldo Durán
Graham Greene: Friend and brother (1995) by Leopoldo Durán
Graham Greene (1995) by Michael Shelden
Life of Graham Greene: 1904-1939 (1996) by Norman Sherry
Graham Greene's Thrillers and the 1930s (1996) by Brian Diemert
Graham Greene's Fictions (2000) by Cates Baldridge
Greene on Capri (2000) by Shirley Hazzard
In Search Of A Beginning (2004) by Marie-Francoise Allain and Yvonne Cloetta
The Life of Graham Greene: 1955-1991 (2004) by Norman Sherry
The Films of Graham Greene (2006) by Adrian Wootton
Graham Greene recommends

The Bachelor of Arts (1937)
(Malgudi)
R K Narayan
"Without him I could never have known what it is like to be Indian."

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 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."

Earthly Bread (1976)
Michael Mewshaw
"Once more Mr Memshaw demonstrates his very remarkable sense of place and sense of humour in the service of a topic that is quite serious. His best book yet."

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."

Cities of Salt (1988)
(Cities of Salt, book 1)
Abdelrahman Munif
"An arab novel - and an excellent one at that. It opens up new vistas to the imagination."
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