Victor Baxter is a young boy when a secretive stranger known simply as the Captain brings him from his boarding school to London. Victor becomes the surrogate son and companion of a woman named Liza, who renames him ...
The End of the Affair (Classics Delux...
Graham GreeneGraham Greene’s 1951 novel centers on the attempt of Maurice Bendix, a London novelist, to learn why his lover, Sarah, had abandoned him without a word of explanation several years before. In the course of the story, Sarah dies,...
Bertram had no belief in luck. An unsuccessful assistant accountant, he was planning to get married for the second time - quietly. But Dreuther, a director of Bertram's firm, whimsically switches the honeymoon to Monte Carlo. Here Ber...
The Ministry of Fear: An Entertainmen...
Graham GreeneThe secret war in 'The Ministry of Fear' is between those who pity and those who can bear pain--other people's pain endlessly, the people who don't care....To feel compassion for someone is to make oneself their equal; to pity them is...
Rollo Martins' usual line is the writing of cheap paperback Westerns under the name of Buck Dexter. But when his old friend Harry Lime invites him to Vienna, he jumps at the chance. With exactly five pounds in his pocket, he arrives o...
This is no book for those who would turn delicate noses away from the gutters and sewers of life; but there is nothing that could give the faintest gratification to snickerers. If it is as downright as surgery, it is, also, as clean ...
Travels with My Aunt (Classics Deluxe...
Graham GreeneThe book is a comedy...and sometimes a farce, but it is also Mr. Greene's De Senectute, turned upon age and death....Turned toward death, the book implies, one longs for a way of life free from the venom of morality, grim death thwart...
One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, in a new edition commemorating its 75th anniversary Seventy-five years ago, Graham Greene published The Power and the Glory, a moralist thriller that traces a line of influence ...
Graham Greene's classic Cuban spy story, now with a new package and a new introduction First published in 1959, Our Man in Havana is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire that still resonates ...
The Quiet American (Classics Deluxe E...
Graham GreeneA continuously intriguing piece of storytelling....[Greene] has brought into vivid relief a universal human problem--the fearful price of innocence--and has shown that behind innocence there lurk unconscious arrogance and a self-right...
An assassin for hire, Raven becomes both the hunter and the hunted when he is paid for his latest killing with stolen notes and becomes a man on the run as he must track down the agent who double-crossed him while, at the same time, e...
This new novel, [Greene's] tenth, bears no trace of slackening or diminution, it is not an old hand's brewing up--though the hand admittedly is very cunning--the mixture as before; it is instead a work of strength and freshness, and i...
A Burnt-Out Case (Twentieth Century C...
Graham GreeneQuerry, a world-famous architect, is the victim of an attack of indifference, no longer finding meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he loses himself in work for the lepers. As he helps th...
The stories in this book, all written between 1929 and 1954, 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 recoun...
Orient Express (Classics Deluxe Editi...
Graham GreeneORIENT EXPRESS (1933) was Graham Greene’s third novel, but it was his first truly successful one. Though he classed this novel as one of his "entertainments' (as opposed to his more serious fiction), ORIENT EXPRESS is a pro...
A morally complex and mature work from a modern master IN THIS later novel by Graham Greene—featuring a new introduction—the author continues to explore moral and theological dilemmas through psychologically astute character studi...
The Heart of the Matter: (Classics De...
Graham GreeneThis 1948 story of moral decay was one of Graham Greene’s greatest popular and critical successes, though not one of his own favorites. His hero Scobie is a colonial police commissioner in West Africa. He endures a loveless marr...
A morally complex and mature work from a modern master IN THIS later novel by Graham Greene— featuring a new introduction—the author continues to explore moral and theological dilemmas through psychologically astute character stud...
A morally complex and mature work from a modern master IN THIS later novel by Graham Greene— featuring a new introduction—the author continues to explore moral and theological dilemmas through psychologically astute character stu...
Now with a new introduction by David Rieff, The Lawless Roads is the result of Graham Greene's expedition to Mexico in the late 1930s to report on how the inhabitants had reacted to the brutal anticlerical purges of President Calles. ...
The Little Steamroller (The Little Tr...
Graham GreeneEvery day the Little Steamroller works at London Airport clearing the runways for the airplanes and every day the people on the gate make fun of him. But they do not know of the time that this little steamroller defeated the Black Han...
Early one morning the little train wakes up in his home town, Little Snoreing, and decides to go on an adventure. He chugs and puffs his way through villages, past castles and over bridges. But soon he gets tired, and the big city is ...
From the author of the classics Brighton Rock and The Power and the Glory, a morally complex tale about a man at the mercy of deadly forces while being held in a German prison camp during World War II. Featuring an introduction by the...