British · b. 1904
Graham Greene was one of the most acclaimed English novelists of the twentieth century, master of the morally complex thriller and the 'Catholic novel,' author of The Power and the Glory and The Quiet American.
Graham Greene blurred the line between literary and popular fiction, writing what he called “entertainments” alongside his serious novels, all marked by moral complexity, spiritual struggle, and a keen sense of place in the world’s troubled corners.
His major works include The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter, The End of the Affair, Brighton Rock, and The Quiet American, which together explore faith, doubt, betrayal, and conscience, often against backdrops of political conflict. His Catholicism deeply informed his fiction without ever simplifying it.
Perennially mentioned for the Nobel Prize he never won, Greene is recognized as a master storyteller and one of the great moral novelists of his century.
by Graham Greene
Mexico in the 1930s: religion has been outlawed, priests are hunted, and the last priest in a southern state is a wanted man. He is also a drunkard who has fathered a child and abandoned his vows. Pursued by a mestizo informer and a dedicated police lieutenant, he continues to administer sacraments he believes himself unworthy to give. Greene's greatest theological novel.
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Vietnam, 1952. Thomas Fowler, a world-weary British journalist, watches as Alden Pyle, a young idealistic American CIA operative, arrives in Saigon with theories about a Third Force. Their rivalry over a Vietnamese woman, Phuong, becomes inseparable from the political catastrophe Pyle helps to engineer. Greene's prescient masterpiece about American innocence and its costs.
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London, the Blitz. Writer Maurice Bendrix begins an affair with Sarah Miles, wife of a civil servant. When Sarah suddenly ends the affair without explanation, Bendrix's jealousy drives him to hire a detective. What he discovers is not another lover but a bargain Sarah made with God. Greene's most personal novel: faith, jealousy, and the possibility of grace.
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Brighton, the 1930s. Pinkie Brown is a seventeen-year-old gang leader, a Catholic who believes in damnation and acts accordingly. After a murder, he marries Rose, a waitress who could testify against him, intending to kill her after she can no longer be called as a witness. Ida Arnold, a cheerful hedonist, pursues him. Greene's darkest and most theologically exact novel.
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