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Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Originally published in 1938, Graham Greene's chilling exposé of violence and gang warfare is a masterpiece of psychological realism and often considered Graham Greene's best novel. It is a fascinating study of evil, sin, and the "appalling strangeness of the mercy of God," a classic of its kind. Set in ...Show more
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
Category: Classic | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Pinkie Brown, a neurotic teenage gangster wielding a razor blade and a bottle of sulfuric acid, commits a brutal murder - but it does not go unnoticed. Rose, a naive young waitress at a rundown cafe, has the unwitting power to destroy his crucial alibi, and Ida Arnold, a woman bursting with easy certain ...Show more
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
Category: Classic Fiction
A teenage sociopath rises to power in Britain's criminal underworld in this "brilliant and uncompromising" thriller (The New York Times). Seventeen-year-old Pinkie Brown, raised amid the casual violence and corruption in the dire prewar Brighton slums, has left his final judgment in the hands of God ...Show more
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
Category: Classic
Gripping, terrifying, an unputdownable read - Greene's iconic tale of the razor-wielding Pinkie. A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life ...Show more
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene; J. M. Coetzee (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEEA gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller, exposes a w ...Show more
Brighton Rock (Collector's Library) by Graham Greene
Category: Fiction
Brighton Rock, Graham Greene's iconic tale of the razor-wielding Pinkie, is gripping and terrifying - an unputdownable read. First published in 1938, it is a murder thriller set in 1930s Brighton; the author wrote the screenplay for the iconic 1947 film of the novel directed by John Boulting and starrin ...Show more
Brighton Rock (Heroes and Villains) by Graham Greene
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Heroes and Villians Ser.
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Graham Greene's gripping thriller was adapted into a British film noir in ...Show more
Brighton Rock - OUT OF PRINT by Graham Greene
Category: Fiction
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Untouched by human feeling, Pinkie is isolated, a figure of pure evil. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold, who is determined to avenge Hale's death.
Brighton Rock (Vintage Classics Most Red Series) by Graham Greene
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Most Red Ser.
MOST LOVED. MOST RED. Ten must-read modern classics. 'Heaven was a word- hell was something he could trust.' A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, Pinkie is unprepared for the ...Show more
Brighton Rock (Vintage Loves Film Classic) by Graham Greene
Category: Fiction
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold.
Complete Short Stories by Graham Greene
Category: Short Stories | Series: Penguin Classics S.
Affairs, obsessions, ardors, fantasy, myth, legend and dream, fear, pity, and violenceathis magnificent collection of stories illuminates all corners of the human experience. Previously published in two volumesa"Collected Short Stories" and "The Last Word and Other Stories"athese forty-nine stories rev ...Show more
Doctor Fischer of Geneva by Graham Greene
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
A satirical black comedy reissued from the legendary Graham Greene. Doctor Fischer despises the human race. When the notorious toothpaste millionaire decides to hold the last of his famous parties -- his own deadly version of the Book of Revelations -- Greene opens up a powerful vision of the limitless ...Show more