Graham Greene

In his essays, criticism, screenplays, autobiography, and novels, Graham Greene explored a territory located somewhere on the border between despair and faith, treachery and love. This cross-section of Greene's work was originally selected with the author's help in 1973 and has now been extensively revised and updated. It includes the complete novels The Heart of the Matter and The Third Man, along with excerpts from ten other novels; short stories; selections from Greene's memoirs and travel writings; essays on English and American literature; and public statements on issues that range from repression in the Soviet Union to torture in Northern Ireland to the paradoxical virtue of disloyalty. An extensive critical and biographical introduction, headnotes, chronology, and bibliography by editor Philip Stratford make The Portable Graham Greene as invaluable for scholars as it is essential for any traveler through Greene's richly menacing and strangely seductive literary landscapes. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Första boken i Graham Greenes stora romankvartettDen hänsynslöse gangstern Pinkie Brown är fast besluten att befästa sin position inom Brightons undre värld. Efter att i en brutal uppvisning av makt ha mördat journalisten Fred Hale inser Pinkie att den sextonåriga servitrisen Rose på egen hand kan få alla hans planer att falla samman. För att hindra det bestämmer sig Pinkie för att uppvakta henne och så småningom gifta sig med henne. Det leder till en komplicerad relation där makt, manipulation och känslor kolliderar. Samtidigt börjar den moraliskt drivna Ida Arnold komma Pinkie och hans gäng på spåren. Brighton Rock är den första av Graham Greenes romaner att ta sig an de komplexa katolska teman som kom att prägla flera av hans senare böcker. Det är också en av Greenes mest framgångsrika romaner, som sedan den publicerades 1938 åtskilliga gånger adapterats till teater, musikal, radio och film. I översättning av Erik Lindegren. GRAHAM GREENE [1904-1991] är en av Storbritanniens största romanförfattare genom tiderna. Hans författarskap kan delas in i två verk, romankvartetten som kommit att kallas »den katolska romanens guldstandard«: Brighton Rock, Makten & härligheten, Hjärtpunkten och Slutet på historien - och de politiska romanerna, som kommit att tillhöra världslitteraturens mest klassiska spionthrillers: Hemlig agent, Den tredje mannen, Den stillsamme amerikanen, Vår man i Havanna och Den mänskliga faktorn. Graham Greene var vid två tillfällen - 1961 och 1967 - en av huvudkandidaterna till Nobelpriset i litteratur.

Graham Greene, known for his iconic novels, also wrote exceptional short stories. Here some of the best have been arranged into pairs - to be read as a duel or duet - by novelist and Greene aficionado, Yiyun Li.Twenty-two of Greene’s very best stories are collected here, each of them bearing the hallmark themes that characterise his great novels: innocence and vengeance, love and hate, pity and violence.Writer and Greene aficionado, Yiyun Li, has arranged the stories into pairs, to be read together in contrast or in harmony – as a duel or a duet. In doing so Li draws out the extraordinary power in Greene’s work, creating an ingenious new perspective on a writer we thought we knew. Unexpected, surprising and wide-ranging, this is the short fiction of one of the twentieth century’s greatest and most adored storytellers, revealing his brilliance as never before.‘No twentieth-century writer had a subtler mind for human comparison’ Zadie Smith‘Greene had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature’ John le Carré'One of the most important British writers of the twentieth century' Daily Telegraph‘A superb storyteller’ New York Times‘One of the finest writers of any language’ Washington Post‘One of our greatest authors’ IndependentSELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY YIYUN LI

"What a plot They don't make movies like this anymore--or novels, either, except by Graham Greene" --(USA TODAY) From the author of the classics Brighton Rock and The Quiet American, a morally complex tale about a man at the mercy of deadly forces while being held in a German prison camp during World War II--featuring a new preface by Michael Korda and an introduction by the author. When Jean-Louis Chauvel, a French lawyer incarcerated in a German prison camp, is informed by his captors that three prisoners must die, he devises a plan for survival. Offering everything he owns to a fellow prisoner if he will take Chauvel's place, he manages to escape the firing squad but soon discovers that he will continue to pay for this act for the rest of his life. An unforgettable and suspenseful novel that "deserves a place at the top of the list of world's best literature inspired by the war" (Houston Chronicle), The Tenth Man will haunt you long after you turn the final page.