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May We Borrow Your Husband? and Other Comedies of the Sexual Life by Graham Greene
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Author William Harris is spending the fag-end of the season at Antibes finishing his first attempt at historical biography, but he becomes more and more interested and involved in the antics of two homosexual interior decorators intent on stealing Poopy Travis' honeymoon husband. Which leaves him free t ...Show more
Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene
Category: Classic
Promoted to the rank of Monsignor, Quixote and his friend Sancho, the ex-Mayor of El Toboso and an avid communist, set off on their travels.
Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
With Sancho Panza, a deposed Communist mayor, his faithful Rocinate, an antiquated motorcar, Monsignor Quixote roams through modern-day Spain in a brilliant picaresque fable. Like Cervantes' classic, "Monsignor Quixote" offers enduring insights into our life and times.
No Man's Land by Graham Greene
Category: Fiction | Series: Hesperus Classics
No Man's Land is a profoundly chilling tale of espionage, superstition, and betrayal, and bears all the hallmarks of Greene's most famous works. Arriving in the Harz Mountains, within striking distance of the Iron Curtain, 'civilian' Brown appears to be enjoying a small vacation. Yet one night he crosse ...Show more
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
MI6's man in Havana is Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Charles Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. Then his stories start coming ...Show more
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
Category: Classic
Bright, photographic, evocative new covers for Greene's backlist, to celebrate one of the keystone writers of the Vintage Classics list 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 s ...Show more
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
Category: Fiction
The hero of Graham Greene's black comedy Our Man in Havana is Wormald, a vacuum-cleaner salesman in pre-revolutionary Cuba, which is beset by power cuts. Milly, his sixteen year-old beautiful, devoutly Catholic but materialistic and manipulative daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him, so ...Show more
Our Man in Havana: An Introduction by Christopher Hitchens by Graham Greene
Category: Classic Fiction
'He carried with him the breath of beaches and the leathery smell of a good club'WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSWormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power cuts. His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him, so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an ...Show more
Our Man in Havana (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Graham Greene
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Graham Greene's blackly comic espionage thriller, set amid the vice and squalor of pre-revolutionary Havana.Life in pre-revolutionary Cuba is not easy and James Wormold, a failing vacuum cleaner salesman, is struggling to fund the increasingly lavish lifestyle of his manipulative sixteen year-old daught ...Show more
Reflections by Graham Greene
Category: Short Stories
This is updated and edited with a new introduction by Judith Adamson. Whether reporting from the London cinema, Cotswolds villages, second-hand bookshops, war zones or political trouble spots, Graham Greene's novelistic gifts for detail, drama and compassionate curiosity provide unique and resonant insi ...Show more