Bøger af Graham Greene

Discover Graham Green's prescient political masterpiece'The novel that I love the most is The Quiet American' Ian McEwanInto the intrigue and violence of 1950s Indo-China comes CIA agent Alden Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'.

Altings hjerte fortæller en historie om krig, spionage, kærlighed, utroskab, bedrag, diamantsmugling og moralske dilemmaer. I romanens kerne – i plottet, i dens psykologiske dybde – ligger to moralske spørgsmål; Er det muligt at gøre andre lykkelige? Er selvmord nogen gange det rette valg?Henry Scobie arbejder som politibetjent i en lille udpost af det britiske kolonialstyre i Sierra Leone under Anden verdenskrig, og fungerer som romanens enigmatiske omdrejningspunkt. Scobie forsøger at gøre sin poesi-elskende og dybt ulykkelige hustru, Louise, glad. Varmen, den øde beliggenhed og det at hun ingen venner har i den lille landsby er ved at drive hende til vanvid, og da Scobie ikke får en ventet forfremmelse, føler hun sig ydmyget, og hendes ubehag bringes til en febervarm krise. Scobie går med til at betale for rejsen, så Louise kan komme til Sydafrika, men for at skaffe pengene må han låne dem fra en lokal handelsmand og diamantsmugler; hans tidligere pletfrie ry er pludselig blevet korrumperet, og når først byens mørke kræfter har fat i person, så giver de nødigt slip.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUXThree 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. And, to begin with, they are men afraid of love, afraid of pain, afraid of fear itself...

Discover Graham Greene's blackly comic and timely espionage thriller, set amid the vice and squalor of pre-revolutionary Havana. 'British Intelligence being sent up something rotten' Daily Telegraph Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power cuts.

"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look ahead..." "This is a record of hate far more than of love," writes Maurice Bendrix in the opening passages of The End of the Affair, and it is a strange hate indeed that compels him to set down the retrospective account of his adulterous affair with Sarah Miles. Now, a year after Sarah's death, Bendrix seeks to exorcise the persistence of his passion by retracing its course from obsessive love to love-hate. At first, he believes he hates Sarah and her husband, Henry. Yet as he delves further into his emotional outlook, Bendrix's hatred shifts to the God he feels has broken his life, but whose existence at last comes to recognize. Originally published in 1951, The End of the Affair was acclaimed by William Faulkner as "for me one of the best, most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody's language." This Penguin Deluxe Edition features an introduction by Michael Gorra.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.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOODScobie, a police officer serving in a war-time West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.

"Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him..." Graham Greene's chilling exposé of violence and gang warfare in the pre-war underworld is a classic of its kind. Pinkie, a teenage gangster on the rise, is devoid of compassion or human feeling, despising weakness of both the spirit and the flesh. Responsible for the razor slashes that killed mob boss Kite and also for the death of Hale, a reporter who threatened the livelihood of the mob, Pinkie is the embodiment of calculated evil. As a Catholic, however, Pinkie is convinced that his retribution does not lie in human hands. He is therefore not prepared for Ida Arnold, Hale's avenging angel. Ida, whose allegiance is with life, the here and now, has her own ideas about the circumstances surrounding Hale's death. For the sheer joy of it, she takes up the challenge of bringing the infernal Pinkie to an earthly kind of justice. This Penguin Classics Deluxe edition features an introduction by J. M. Coetzee.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.

Arthur Rowe's mind is hamstrung by guilt - a Graham Greene speciality - and he stands aside from the war until he happens to guess both the true and the false weight of the cake at a charity fete. From that moment he is the quarry of malign and shadowy forces from which he tries to escape with a mind that is out of focus.

Graham Greene's powerful novel of good, evil and adolescent rebellion.

The iconic writer's travel log from the uncharted shores of West Africa.

For Arthur Rowe the charity fete was a trip back to childhood, to innocence, a welcome chance to escape the terror of the Blitz, to forget twenty years of his past and a murder.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MONICA ALIThe love affair between Maurice Bendrix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off.

Believing he can escape retribution, Pinkie is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold, who is determined to uncover him. Few, if any, can match the originality of Brighton Rock, and of Pinkie - one of fiction's most unnerving and compelling villains.

Graham Greene, the great twentieth-century novelist, also wrote exceptional short stories.SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY YIYUN LITwenty-two of his very best stories are collected here, each of them bearing the hallmark themes that characterise Greene's great novels: betrayal and vengeance, love and hate, pity and violence. Writer and Greene aficionado Yiyun Li has arranged the stories in pairs to create an ingenious new collection: unexpected, surprising and wide-ranging, but always the unmistakable work of one of the twentieth century's greatest and most adored storytellers.'One of the most important British writers of the twentieth century' Daily Telegraph

Vor dem Hintergrund der Wirren im Frankreich der Nachkriegszeit webt Graham Greene seine spannende Erzählung. Der Roman beginnt mit einer Situation, in der das Los über Leben und Tod entscheidet, und endet mit einer tragischen Enthüllung.

Stories - Weird and Wonderful is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1889.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Fernande's Choice is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1887.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.