Author: Graham Greene
Publisher: Carcanet Press
ISBN: 9781857548556
Category : Film criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Greene was a prolific writer for and about film: this is the only book to collect his written contributions to the world of cinema. Included here are reviews, essays, articles, scripts, interviews, lectures, letters and film stories.
Mornings in the Dark
Author: Graham Greene
Publisher: Carcanet Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Twenty years before the celebrated films The Third Man, The Fallen Idol and Brighton Rock, Graham Greene was deeply involved with cinema as critic, essayist and polemicist. Described by Basil Wright as a child of the film age, Greene became one of the most perceptive, trenchant film critics of the 1930s, with first-hand experience as screen writer, producer, adaptor and performer, and a considerable knowledge of camera technique.
Publisher: Carcanet Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Twenty years before the celebrated films The Third Man, The Fallen Idol and Brighton Rock, Graham Greene was deeply involved with cinema as critic, essayist and polemicist. Described by Basil Wright as a child of the film age, Greene became one of the most perceptive, trenchant film critics of the 1930s, with first-hand experience as screen writer, producer, adaptor and performer, and a considerable knowledge of camera technique.
The Graham Greene Film Reader
Author: Graham Greene
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557831880
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Gathers Greene's film writings, and offers a brief introduction to the role of motion pictures in his life and career
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557831880
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Gathers Greene's film writings, and offers a brief introduction to the role of motion pictures in his life and career
Graham Greene on Film
Author: Graham Greene
Publisher: New York : Simon and Schuster
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Simon and Schuster
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene
Author: Richard Greene
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039365107X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
A Finalist for the 2022 Edgar Award A Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A vivid, deeply researched account of the tumultuous life of one of the twentieth century’s greatest novelists, the author of The End of the Affair. One of the most celebrated British writers of his generation, Graham Greene’s own story was as strange and compelling as those he told of Pinkie the Mobster, Harry Lime, or the Whisky Priest. A journalist and MI6 officer, Greene sought out the inner narratives of war and politics across the world; he witnessed the Second World War, the Vietnam War, the Mau Mau Rebellion, the rise of Fidel Castro, and the guerrilla wars of Central America. His classic novels, including The Heart of the Matter and The Quiet American, are only pieces of a career that reads like a primer on the twentieth century itself. The Unquiet Englishman braids the narratives of Greene’s extraordinary life. It portrays a man who was traumatized as an adolescent and later suffered a mental illness that brought him to the point of suicide on several occasions; it tells the story of a restless traveler and unfailing advocate for human rights exploring troubled places around the world, a man who struggled to believe in God and yet found himself described as a great Catholic writer; it reveals a private life in which love almost always ended in ruin, alongside a larger story of politicians, battlefields, and spies. Above all, The Unquiet Englishman shows us a brilliant novelist mastering his craft. A work of wit, insight, and compassion, this new biography of Graham Greene, the first undertaken in a generation, responds to the many thousands of pages of letters that have recently come to light and to new memoirs by those who knew him best. It deals sensitively with questions of private life, sex, and mental illness, and sheds new light on one of the foremost modern writers.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039365107X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
A Finalist for the 2022 Edgar Award A Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A vivid, deeply researched account of the tumultuous life of one of the twentieth century’s greatest novelists, the author of The End of the Affair. One of the most celebrated British writers of his generation, Graham Greene’s own story was as strange and compelling as those he told of Pinkie the Mobster, Harry Lime, or the Whisky Priest. A journalist and MI6 officer, Greene sought out the inner narratives of war and politics across the world; he witnessed the Second World War, the Vietnam War, the Mau Mau Rebellion, the rise of Fidel Castro, and the guerrilla wars of Central America. His classic novels, including The Heart of the Matter and The Quiet American, are only pieces of a career that reads like a primer on the twentieth century itself. The Unquiet Englishman braids the narratives of Greene’s extraordinary life. It portrays a man who was traumatized as an adolescent and later suffered a mental illness that brought him to the point of suicide on several occasions; it tells the story of a restless traveler and unfailing advocate for human rights exploring troubled places around the world, a man who struggled to believe in God and yet found himself described as a great Catholic writer; it reveals a private life in which love almost always ended in ruin, alongside a larger story of politicians, battlefields, and spies. Above all, The Unquiet Englishman shows us a brilliant novelist mastering his craft. A work of wit, insight, and compassion, this new biography of Graham Greene, the first undertaken in a generation, responds to the many thousands of pages of letters that have recently come to light and to new memoirs by those who knew him best. It deals sensitively with questions of private life, sex, and mental illness, and sheds new light on one of the foremost modern writers.
Travels with My Aunt
Author: Graham Greene
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 1412849012
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The story of Henry Pulling, a retired and complacent bank manager, who meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. She soon persuades Henry to abandon his dull suburban existence to travel her to Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay. Through Aunt Augusta, one of Greene's greatest comic creations, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society; mixes with hippies, war criminals, and CIA men; smokes pot and breaks all currency regulations.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 1412849012
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The story of Henry Pulling, a retired and complacent bank manager, who meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. She soon persuades Henry to abandon his dull suburban existence to travel her to Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay. Through Aunt Augusta, one of Greene's greatest comic creations, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society; mixes with hippies, war criminals, and CIA men; smokes pot and breaks all currency regulations.
The Honorary Consul
Author: Graham Greene
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684871254
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Relates the story of the politically motivated kidnapping of Charlie Fortnum, a minor British functionary in Argentina.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684871254
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Relates the story of the politically motivated kidnapping of Charlie Fortnum, a minor British functionary in Argentina.
The Quiet American
Author: Graham Greene
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504052544
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
A “masterful . . . brilliantly constructed novel” of love and chaos in 1950s Vietnam (Zadie Smith, The Guardian). It’s 1955 and British journalist Thomas Fowler has been in Vietnam for two years covering the insurgency against French colonial rule. But it’s not just a political tangle that’s kept him tethered to the country. There’s also his lover, Phuong, a young Vietnamese woman who clings to Fowler for protection. Then comes Alden Pyle, an idealistic American working in service of the CIA. Devotedly, disastrously patriotic, he believes neither communism nor colonialism is what’s best for Southeast Asia, but rather a “Third Force”: American democracy by any means necessary. His ideas of conquest include Phuong, to whom he promises a sweet life in the states. But as Pyle’s blind moral conviction wreaks havoc upon innocent lives, it’s ultimately his romantic compulsions that will play a role in his own undoing. Although criticized upon publication as anti-American, Graham Greene’s “complex but compelling story of intrigue and counter-intrigue” would, in a few short years, prove prescient in its own condemnation of American interventionism (The New York Times).
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504052544
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
A “masterful . . . brilliantly constructed novel” of love and chaos in 1950s Vietnam (Zadie Smith, The Guardian). It’s 1955 and British journalist Thomas Fowler has been in Vietnam for two years covering the insurgency against French colonial rule. But it’s not just a political tangle that’s kept him tethered to the country. There’s also his lover, Phuong, a young Vietnamese woman who clings to Fowler for protection. Then comes Alden Pyle, an idealistic American working in service of the CIA. Devotedly, disastrously patriotic, he believes neither communism nor colonialism is what’s best for Southeast Asia, but rather a “Third Force”: American democracy by any means necessary. His ideas of conquest include Phuong, to whom he promises a sweet life in the states. But as Pyle’s blind moral conviction wreaks havoc upon innocent lives, it’s ultimately his romantic compulsions that will play a role in his own undoing. Although criticized upon publication as anti-American, Graham Greene’s “complex but compelling story of intrigue and counter-intrigue” would, in a few short years, prove prescient in its own condemnation of American interventionism (The New York Times).
The End of the Affair
Author: Graham Greene
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781407086811
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781407086811
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Stamboul Train
Author: Graham Greene
Publisher: Harmondsworth, Middlesex : Penguin Books
ISBN:
Category : English
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher: Harmondsworth, Middlesex : Penguin Books
ISBN:
Category : English
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Under the Garden
Author: Graham Greene
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 9780146000577
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 9780146000577
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description