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Graham Greene was an English author whose oeuvre (serious novels and thrillers, biographical works, plays, screenplays, essays, literary and film criticism) won him both critical and popular success. He is widely regarded as a notable exception from the list of litterateurs who won the Nobel Prize. His fiction dealt with a variety of themes including moral ambiguity, religious faith and the loss of it, and politics.
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Fast Facts
- Born: October 2, 1904
- Birth place: Berkhamsted, United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Literature, Entertainments, Film Criticism
- Awards: The Hawthornden (1941, for The Power and The Glory);
Companion of Honour (1966);
The Order of Merit (1986) - Alma mater: Balliol, Oxford
- Debut: 1929 (The Man Within)
- Died: April 3, 1991
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Career
Editor of the Oxford Outlook, when at Balliol College.
Sub-editor of The Times (1926-30).
Literary and Film Criticism for Night And Day and The Spectator (1930-40)
Worked for the UK Ministry of Information and the Air Raid Precaution Squad during the London Blitz.
Worked for SIS (1941-43).
Worked for Section V in Counter Intelligence (1943-44).
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- "Babbling April" (Poetry, 1925)
- "The Man Within" (1929)
- "The Name of Action" (1930)
- "Rumour at Nightfall" (1932)
- "Stamboul Train" or "Orient Express" (1932)
- "It's a Battlefield" (1934)
- "England Made Me" (1935)
- "The Basement Room and Other Stories" (1935)
- "Journey Without Maps" (Travelogue, 1936)
- "A Gun for Sale" or "This Gun for Hire" (1936)
- "Brighton Rock" (1938)
- "The Lawless Roads" or "Another Mexico" (Travelogue, 1939)
- "The Confidential Agent" (1939)
- "The Power and The Glory" or "The Labyrinthine Ways" (1940)
- "British Dramatists" (Biog., 1942)
- "The Ministry of Fear" (1943)
- "Nineteen Stories" (Short Stories, 1947)
- "The Heart of the Matter" (1948)
- "The Third Man" (1950)
- "The End of the Affair" (1951)
- "The Lost Childhood and Other Essays" (Essays, 1952)
- "The Living Room" (Play, 1953)
- "Twenty-one Stories" (Short Stories, 1954)
- "Loser Takes All" (1955)
- "The Quiet American" (1955)
- "The Potting Shed" (Play, 1957)
- "Our Man in Havana" (1958)
- "The Complaisant Lover" (Play, 1959)
- "A Burnt-out Case" (1961)
- "In Search of a Character" (Travelogue, 1961)
- "A Sense of Reality" (Short Stories, 1963)
- "Carving A Statue" (Play, 1964)
- "The Comedians" (1966)
- "May We Borrow Your Husband and Other Comedies of the Sexual Life" (Short Stories, 1967)
- "Collected Essays" (Essays, 1969)
- "Travels with My Aunt" (1969)
- "A Sort of Life" (Autob., 1971)
- "The Honorary Consul" (1973)
- "Lord Rochester's Monkey" (Biog., 1974)
- "The Return of A. J. Raffles" (Play, 1975)
- "The Human Factor" (1978)
- "Dr. Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party" (1980)
- "Ways of Escape" (Autob., 1980)
- "The Pleasure Dome - Collected Film Criticism, 1935-40" (1980)
- "The Great Jowett" (Play, 1981)
- "Monsignor Quixote" (1982)
- "Yes and No" (Play, 1983)
- "For Whom the Bell Chimes" (Play, 1983)
- "Getting to Know the General" (Autob., 1984)
- "Collected Plays" (1985)
- "The Tenth Man" (1985)
- "The Captain and the Enemy" (1988)
- "Yours etc., - Letters to the Press" (1989)
- "The Last Word and Other Stories" (Short Stories, 1990)
- "A World of My Own" (Autob., 1992)
- "Mornings in the Dark - The Graham Greene Film Reader" (Film Criticism, 1993)
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iTunes UK Top audiobooks: "Our Man In Havana - Graham Greene" © 2009 CSA Word... http://tinyurl.com/lge9ao
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Re-visting Graham Greene novels these past few weeks, difficult to pull away bordering obsession, but the new @AnneRiceAuthor novel awaits.
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finished reading Our Man In Havana by Graham Greene today. If you like classics and/or satire, check it out.
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16,445 words is 74 pages -- I took a paperback of Graham Greene's and looked to see how "fat" that looked. Damn. #nanowrimo Damn good.
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