GREENE GRAHAM

(P/B) WAYS OF ESCAPE
With superb skill and feeling, Graham Greene retraces the experiences and encounters of his extraordinary life. His restlessness is legendary; as if seeking out danger, Greene travelled to Haiti during the nightmare rule of Papa Doc, Vietnam in the last days of the French, Kenya during the Mau Mau rebellion. With ironic delight he recalls his time in the British Secret Service in Africa, and his brief involvement in Hollywood. He writes, as only he can, about people and places, about faith, doubt, fear and, not least, the trials and craft ...
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(P/B) THE MAN WITHIN
The Man Within tells the story of Andrews, a young man who has betrayed his fellow smugglers and fears their vengeance. Fleeing from them, with no hope of pity or salvation, he takes refuge in the house of a young woman, also alone in the world. She persuades him to give evidence against his accomplices in court, but neither she nor Andrews is aware that to both criminals and authority treachery is as great a crime as smuggling. (From the publisher)...
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Ο ΗΣΥΧΟΣ ΑΜΕΡΙΚΑΝΟΣ
Βιετνάμ, δεκαετία του '50. Ο βρετανός δημοσιογράφος Φάουλερ ζει στη Σαϊγκόν και καλύπτει την εξέγερση των Βιετναμέζων κατά της γαλλικής αποικιοκρατίας. Έχει μιαν όμορφη βιετναμέζα ερωμένη, περιφέρει τον ευρωπαϊκό σκεπτικισμό του και αφουγκράζεται τη βουή της πόλης. Και τότε εμφανίζεται ένας νεαρός, ευγενικός Αμερικανός, ο Πάιλ, πράκτορας των αμερικανικών μυστικών υπηρεσιών, που έχει ως στόχο να υπονομεύσει τη γαλλική κυριαρχία στην περιοχή, προκειμένου το Βιετνάμ να περιέλθει στην αμερικανική επιρροή. Είναι ιδεαλιστής, ηθικολόγος, φανατικό...
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Ο ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΣ ΜΑΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΑΒΑΝΑ
Στην Κούβα, χώρα ηδονική, φτωχή και διεφθαρμένη, λίγο πριν την κατάληψη της εξουσίας από τον Φιντέλ Κάστρο και ενώ ο ψυχρός πόλεμος μαίνεται, ένας βρετανός μικρέμπορος ηλεκτρικών ειδών βλέπει τις δουλειές του να φθίνουν, ενώ η έφηβη κόρη του σπαταλά τα λιγοστά του χρήματα χωρίς φειδώ. Μα να, φτάνει ο από μηχανής Θεός: ο ήρωάς μας στρατολογείται από τις Βρετανικές Μυστικές Υπηρεσίες για να δίνει πληροφορίες για την χώρα που τον φιλοξενεί. Η ανάγκη των χρημάτων ωθεί τον μαθητευόμενο κατάσκοπο να επινοήσει ένα ολόκληρο δίκτυο πρακτόρων και μι...
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ΤΟ ΥΠΟΥΡΓΕΙΟ ΤΟΥ ΦΟΒΟΥ
ΜΕΣΑ ΑΠΟ ΤΗ ΛΑΙΛΑΠΑ ΤΩΝ ΜΕΓΑΛΩΝ ΒΟΜΒΑΡΔΙΣΜΩΝ του Λονδίνου, ο Γκράχαμ Γκρην συλλέγει τα κομμάτια, γι’ αυτό που θα πρέπει ν’ αποτελεί την πιο φαντασμαγορική σπουδή του πάνω στον τρόμο. Το μυαλό του Άρθουρ Ρόου έχει συνθλιβεί από την ενοχή - μια ενοχή που η αιτία της θα πρέπει να εντοπιστεί στο ότι δολοφόνησε ο ίδιος, από οίκτο, την άρρωστη γυναίκα του. Μένει έξω από τον πόλεμο ο Άρθουρ Ρόου, μέχρι που από τύχη μαντεύει - και σωστά και λάθος - το βάρος κάποιου κέικ κατά τη διάρκεια μιας φιλανθρωπικής γιορτής. Από την στιγμή εκείνη γίνεται η λ...
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(P/B) JOURNEY WITHOUT MAPS
In 1935 Graham Greene set off to discover Liberia, a remote and unfamiliar West African republic founded for released slaves. Crossing the red-clay terrain from Sierra Leone to the coast at Grand Bassa with a chain of porters, he came to know one of the few areas of Africa untouched by Western colonisation. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) BRIGHTON ROCK
Graham Greene's classic study in the banality of evil is set in the seedy underworld of pre-war Brighton where Pinkie, a small-time gangster, meets his nemesis at the hands of Ida, the girl he betrays. Published in 1938, Greene's most celebrated novel inaugurated the long series of masterpieces produced between then and his death in 1991. (From the publisher) [...] He got the idea for the story from newspaper accounts of a case at Lewes Assizes in July 1936 - a case at which, as he later remarked, "the Brighton race gangs were to all inte...
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(P/B) THE QUIET AMERICAN
Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as he intervenes he wonders why: for the sake of politics, or for love? (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT
Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, to travel to Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay, and a shiftless, twilight society of hippies, war criminals, CIA men that will help Henry come alive after a dull suburban life. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) TWENTY-ONE STORIES
The stories in this book, all written between 1929 and 1954, all share the themes that feature so strongly in Graham Greene's novels: humour and violence, pity and hatred, betrayal and pursuit. Comic, sad, shocking and tragic, they recount the tales of Mr Maling's loud stomach, destructive gangs of children, indiscretions revealed and secrets uncovered, each one unmistakeably the work of the twentieth century's master storyteller. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT
Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, his dahlias and the Major next door to travel her way, Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay. Through Aunt Augusta, a veteran of Europe's hotel bedrooms, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society: mixing with hippies, war criminals, CIA men; smoking pot, breaking all the currency regulations and eventually coming alive after a ...
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(P/B) THE END OF THE AFFAIR
A designer Vintage Classics edition, published in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum. The End of the Affair has been designed by Sue Timney. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MONICA ALI. The love affair between Maurice Bendix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. After a chance meeting rekindles his love and jealousy two years later, Bendix hires a private detective to follow Sarah, and slowly his love for her turns into an obsession. (From the pu...
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(P/B) A GUN FOR SALE
Raven is an ugly man dedicated to ugly deeds. His cold-blooded killing of the Minister of War is an act of violence with chillingrepercussions, not just for Raven himself but for the nation as awhole. The money he receives in payment for the murder is madeup of stolen notes. When the first of these is traced, Raven is a manon the run. As he tracks down the agent who has been double-crossinghim and attempts to elude the police, he becomes both hunter andhunted: an unwitting weapon of a strange kind of social justice. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) THE MINISTRY OF FEAR
It is 1941 and bombs have turned London into the front line of a world war. In the shadows of the Blitz, Hitler's agents are running a blackmail operation to obtain documents that could bring the nation to instant defeat. Arthur Rowe, a man once convicted of a notorious mercy killing, stumbles onto a German spy operation in Bloomsbury and must be silenced. But even with his memory taken from him, he is still a very dangerous witness. A taut thriller and a haunting exploration of pity, love, and guilt, The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene...
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(P/B) THE POWER AND THE GLORY
During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky priest', is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being shut off, his chances getting fewer. But compassion and humanity force him along the road to his destiny, reluctant to abandon those who need him, and those he cares for. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) DR FISCHER OF GENEVA OR THE BOMB PARTY
A satirical black comedy from the legendary Graham Greene. Doctor Fischer despises the human race. When the notorious toothpaste millionaire decides to hold the last of his famous parties - his own deadly version of the Book of Revelations - Greene opens up a powerful vision of the limitless greed of the rich. Black comedy and painful satire combine in a totally compelling novel. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE COMEDIANS
Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt 'Papa Doc' and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American and Jones the confidence man - these are the 'comedians' of Graham Greene's title. Hiding behind their actors' masks, they hesitate on the edge of life. And, to begin with, they are men afraid of love, afraid of pain, afraid of fear itself... (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) ENGLAND MADE ME
Anthony Farrant has always found his way, lying to get jobs and borrowing money to get by when he leaves them in a hurry. His twin sister Kate persuades him to move and sets him up with a job as bodyguard to Krogh, her lover and boss, an all-powerful Swedish financier. But Farrant does have a sense of decency, and when Krogh gives orders that offend him, he leaks information to Minty, a down-trodden journalist, with drastic results. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) OUR MAN IN HAVANA
Life in pre-revolutionary Cuba is not easy and James Wormold, a failing vacuum cleaner salesman, is struggling to fund the increasingly lavish lifestyle of his manipulative sixteen year-old daughter, Milly. So when an enigmatic Englishman offers him an extra income in return for a little spying, he is sorely tempted... But when the fake reports he's been sending to London start to come true, Havana suddenly becomes a very dangerous place indeed. Both a brilliant Cold War thriller and hilarious work of satire, Our Man in Havana is Graham Gr...
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ΤΟ ΤΕΛΟΣ ΜΙΑΣ ΥΠΟΘΕΣΗΣ
Μια διήγηση δεν έχει ούτε αρχή, ούτε τέλος. Αυθαίρετα διαλέγουμε τη στιγμή που θα κοιτάξουμε πίσω ή μπροστά. Λέγω "διαλέγουμε" μ' εκείνη την ψευτοσιγουριά του επαγγελματία συγγραφέα που, απ' τη στιγμή που θα τον προσέξουν, τον υμνούν για την τεχνική του. Αλλά, με δική μου άραγε θέληση "διάλεξα" κείνη τη μαύρη και βροχερή νύχτα του Γενάρη 1946, στο Πάρκο, με τον Χένρυ Μάϊλς να κατηφορίζει το πλατύ ποτάμι της βροχής, ή μήπως οι εικόνες αυτές διάλεξαν εμένα; (Από την παρουσίαση στο οπισθόφυλλο του βιβλίου)...
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