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The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
Graham Greene’s classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused, Graham Greene’s narrator Fowler remarks of Alden Pyle, the eponymous Quiet American of what is perhaps the most controversial novel of his career. Pyle ...Show more
The Quiet American: Insight Text Guide 2004 by Graham Greene
Category: Education | Series: Insight Text Guide Ser.
Includes 20,000 words of easy-to-read, in-depth analysis. Key quotes, issues/themes, scenes highlighted and page referenced. Chapter summaries and analysis. Character studies. Themes, issues, genre, style and structure examined. Further resources listed. Sample questions and answers. Exam strategies. ...Show more
The Quiet American (Movie Tie-In) by Graham Greene
Category: Classic Fiction
"The Quiet American" is a terrifying portrait of innocence at large. While the French Army in Indo-China is grappling with the Vietminh, back at Saigon a young and high-minded American begins to channel economic aid to a 'Third Force'. Fowler, a seasoned foreign correspondent, observes: 'I never knew a ...Show more
The Tenth Man by Graham Greene
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
During World War II a group of men is held prisoner by the Germans, who determine that three of them must die. This is the story of how one of those men trades his wealth for his life--and lives to pay for his act in utterly unexpected ways.
The Third Man by Graham Greene
Category: Classic | Series: Twentieth Century Classics S.
"The Third Man" is a recreation of post-war Vienna, a city of desolate poverty occupied by four powers. "The Fallen Idol" is the chilling story of a small boy caught up in the games that adults play.
The Third Man by Graham Greene
Category: Crime and Thrillers
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 only just in time to make it to his friend's funeral. The victim of an ...Show more
The Third Man and Other Stories by Graham Greene
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Rollo Martins, a failing novelist, is invited to Vienna by his best friend, Harry Lime. The city he arrives in is unrecognizable - torn apart by the Second World War and shared between the occupying Allies. What's more, Harry is dead, and the circumstances look suspicious . . . Determined to uncover the ...Show more
The Third Man and The Fallen Idol by Graham Greene
Category: Fiction
With an introduction by Ian Thompson, "The Third Man" is Graham Greene's brilliant recreation of post-war Vienna, a 'smashed dreary city' occupied by the four Allied powers. Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless to visit his friend and hero, Harry Lime. But Harry has died in suspiciou ...Show more
The Third Man and other stories by Graham Greene
Category: Classics
Graham Greene was one of the greatest story-tellers of the twentieth century. This anthology contains the novella The Third Man, on which Carol Reed's chilling film starring Orson Wells was based, as well as the story The Fallen Idol which Reed also filmed. Greene's often bleak view of humanity is leave ...Show more
The Third Man and the Fallen Idol by Graham Greene
Category: Classic
Graham Greene's tense thriller and the basis for the iconic movie - now rejacketed in a striking and stylish series style 'Graham Greene has wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the top ranks of world literature' John le Carre Th ...Show more