Graham Greene: 65 books

Im Januar 1935 reiste Graham Greene von Liverpool aus nach Westafrika, um auf dem Fußweg Liberia zu durchqueren. Europa hatte er nie zuvor verlassen, und er gab unumwunden zu, ein absoluter Amateur in Sachen Reisen zu sein. Er hielt es für das Beste, im benachbarten Sierra Leone Träger und Führer...

" Le succès est plus dangereux que l'échec. Les lames se brisent sur une ligne côtière plus longue. Or, Le Fond du problème fut un "succès' au sens vulgaire et vaste de ce terme. Il devait y avoir là quelque chose de corrompu, car ce livre touchait trop souvent les lecteurs dans leurs...

Un beau et grand roman. Un Greene sur le mode grave qui nous plonge droit dans l'actualité d'un monde troublé. C'est avec Tueur à gages de Graham Greene que naquit en 1947 la collection "Pavillons". Dès lors, Greene, ami fidèle de Robert Laffont, devint la figure emblématique...

Graham Greene’s masterful novel of love and betrayal in World War II London is “undeniably a major work of art” (The New Yorker).   Maurice Bendrix, a writer in Clapham during the Blitz, develops an acquaintance with Sarah Miles, the bored, beautiful wife of a dull civil servant named Henry....

Greene’s “sharply, often incisively etched” novel of the interlocked fates of unwary strangers on a train from Belgium to Constantinople (The New York Times).   The Orient Express has embarked from Ostend for a three-day journey to Cologne, Vienna, and Constantinople. The passenger list includes...

In Greene’s “magnificent tour-de-force among tales of international intrigue,” rival agents engage in a deadly game of cat and mouse in prewar England (The New York Times).   D., a widowed professor of Romance literature, has arrived in Dover on a peaceful yet important mission. He’s to negotiate...

Three compelling novels from the British author who has been hailed as “one of the finest writers of any language” (The Washington Post).   In these novels of international intrigue and domestic drama, political injustice and crime, and the possibility of redemption, Graham Greene once again...

Um dos livros mais famosos do autor.Graham Greene considerava-o como o seu melhor romance e simultaneamente o que lhe mais custou a escrever. A obra tem como cenário uma cidade da Argentina, mas o pano de fundo é ocupado pela ditadura do general Alfredo Stroessner, que governou o Paraguai durante...

" Le plus généreux et le plus aimable roman de Greene depuis Voyages avec ma tante. Dans Monsignor Quichotte, il invite – plutôt qu'il ne convoque – le lecteur à partager un humble festin. " The New York Times Dans l'Espagne postfranquiste, le père Quichotte se lie avec Zancas,...

A detective and a chorus girl stalk the shadows of a murderer in this thriller from “a pioneer of the modern mood we now think of as noir” (LA Weekly). Born out of a brutal childhood, Raven is an assassin for hire whose latest hit—a government minister—is one calculated to ignite a...

In London during the Blitz, an amnesiac must outwit a twisted Nazi plot in this “master thriller” of espionage, murder, and deception (Time).   On a peaceful Sunday afternoon, Arthur Rowe comes upon a charity fete in the gardens of a Cambridgeshire vicarage where he wins a game of chance. If...

An “adventurous . . . intelligent . . . ingenious” novel of crime and punishment in pre–World War II London (V. S. Pritchett). During a demonstration in Hyde Park, Communist bus driver Jim Drover acts on instinct to protect his wife by stabbing to death the policeman set to strike her...

This prize-winning novel of a fugitive priest in Mexico is quite simply “Graham Greene’s masterpiece” (John Updike, The New York Review of Books).   In the Mexican state of Tabasco in the 1930s, all vestiges of Catholicism are being outlawed by the government. As churches are razed, icons are...

“From first page to last . . . an engrossing novel” of betrayal and espionage on a colonial outpost during World War II (The New York Times).   In a British colony in West Africa, Henry Scobie is a pious and righteous man of modest means enlisted with securing borders. But when he’s passed...