Henry Graham Greene , OM , CH ( October 2 , 1904 – April 3 , 1991 ) was a prolific English novelist, playwright, short story writer, travel writer and critic whose works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world. See also...
The works of the English novelist and dramatist Graham Greene (1904-1991) explore different permutations of morality and amorality in modern society, and often feature exotic settings in different parts of the world. A storyteller with a spare and...
A film actor who has found success in both Canada and the United States, Graham Greene (born ca. 1952) is a full-blood Oneida, born on the Six Nations Reserve in southwestern Ontario in the early 1950s. Graham Greene, one of the most visible Native...
Graham Greene was a writer who lived his life under the torment of faith. In his fictional world, where evil dominates, good-bad men are put in situations where their individual capacities for evil and good inevitably collide, where what is at stake...
Henry Graham Greene OM, CH (October 2, 1904 – April 3, 1991) was an English novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter, travel writer and critic whose works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world. Greene...
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Graham Greene 04/04/1991: 367 words, approx. 1 pages
Graham Greene was Robert Louis Stevenson's first cousin once removed. It's oddly fitting that Greene, who died yesterday at 86, should be related to the author of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," for his life -- his career -- flourished on paradox. One...
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Works of Graham Green Greene's Religious Trilogy Introduction General Comments: Of all Greene's works, the three which give the most insight into his thinking on religion are Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory, and The Heart of the Matter. Although...
Beautiful Despair. The great country-and-western singer-songwriter, Rodney Crowell, was passing through town on a bitter cold February day, and I got a chance to talk to him about "beautiful despair," which is also the title of a song on his forthcoming album, The Outsider.He's one...
Question 1 of 10:Which writer choked to death on the lid of his eye medication bottle, thinking it was a sleeping pill?a) Graham Greene (0)b) Tennessee Williams (1)c) C.S. Lewis (0)d) Ian Fleming (0)Question 2 of 10:Which former world leader allowed himself to die after...
In the following excerpt, Kelly examines Greene's early short stories, written during his years as a student, stating that in these works Greene worked out the "terrors and frustrations" of his youth. Kelly then discusses The Last Word, a work he feels "conveys a synoptic view of the stages of [Greene's life as a writer."]
In the following essay, Nehring relates the transformation of literary texts by subculture music groups in postwar England—specifically, the Rolling Stones' appropriation of Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange and the Sex Pistols' resurrection of Graham Greene's Brighton Rock—to the avant-garde tradition in aesthetic theory, also discussing Colin MacInnes's documentation of the London music scene of the 1950s in his novel Absolute Beginners.
In the following essay, Bawer examines Greene's Catholic conversion, his personal faith, and the significance of Catholicism in The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter, The End of the Affair, and A Burnt-Out Case.
