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Graham Greene


(Henry Graham Greene)
UK flag (1904 - 1991)

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)
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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 others)
   Collected Short Stories (1987)
   The Last Word (1990)
   The End of the Party (1992)
   The Collected Plays (2002)
   Complete Short Stories (2005)
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Anthologies edited
   The Old School (1934)
   The Spy's Bedside Book (1957) (with Hugh Greene)
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Plays
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Picture Books
   The Little Train (1946)
   The Little Fire Engine (1950)
   The Little Horse Bus (1952)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   The Bear Fell Free (1935)
   No Man's Land (2004)
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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)
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Omnibus editions
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Anthologies containing stories by Graham Greene
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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)


Graham Greene recommends
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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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The March of the Long Shadows (1987)
Norman Lewis
"One of the best writers of our century."
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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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Minotaur (1981)
Benjamin Tammuz
"The best book of the year."
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How Far Can You Go? (1980)
Souls and Bodies

David Lodge
"Hilarious... A magnificent book."
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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."

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