Biography EssayGraham 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 capacit...
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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 par...
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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 1950...
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Graham Greene is a novelist, short-story writer, dramatist, screenplay writer, film critic, news correspondent, author of children's books, biographer, editor, essayist, and world traveler. Born in B...
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Graham Greene is a writer who, like Fëdor Dostoevski, has lived his life under the torment of faith. When the priestly Alyosha Karamazov kisses his brother, the skeptical Ivan, at the end of the...
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Novelist, short-story writer, dramatist, screenwriter, film critic, news correspondent, editor, essayist, biographer, and writer of children's books, Graham Greene is a recognized master of his craf...
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Much of what is known of Graham Greene's life, character, and reading is found in his essays. As he himself points out, almost half of Ways of Escape (1980), the second volume of his autobiography, is...
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Henry Graham Greene 's father, Charles, became the headmaster of Berkhamsted School in 1910 when Graham was six years old, the year of his earliest morbid memories of encounters first with a dead dog...
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Books were a lifelong passion for Graham Greene. Book collecting, the ownership of books, and writing in books absorbed Greene, who haunted the auction rooms and secondhand bookshops of provincial Eng...
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Graham Greene's career spanned a global stage, with his works set in locales as disparate as Hanoi and Havana, Liberia and Lithuania, Mexico and Malaya. Greene also deliberately sought out hazardous a...
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In the following positive review o/Nineteen Stories, Barr provides an overview of Greene's career and states that the stories in the volume reflect Greene's development as a novelist.
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In the following mixed evaluation, Coffey faults the unevenness and lack of emotional power in May We Borrow Your Husband? but praises five stories for their shrewdness and craftsmanship.
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In the following essay, Coulthard reexamines common interpretations of "The Hint of an Explanation," focusing on Greene's depiction of the character Blacker.
Good fiction, as the ...
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In the following essay, McCartney discusses the political implications of "The Destructors," concluding that the story is "essentially a reflection of twentieth-century British po...
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In the essay below, Bayley provides a thematic and stylistic overview of Greene's short stories.
"The Miracle of Purun Bhagat" is a story by Kipling that comes at the end of The J...
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In the excerpt below, Miller analyzes three of Greene's short stories, including "The Basement Room," "The Destructors," and "Under the Garden," which ...
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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&...
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In the positive assessment of Nineteen Stories below, Burnham discusses stylistic and thematic elements in the short stories.
The variety of mood in these stories [19 Stories] of Graham Greene, the fi...
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In the following mixed evaluation of Nineteen Stories, Rosenfeld praises Greene's honest depiction of childhood but faults his attempts at confessional writing.
Graham Greene, who writes two ki...
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In the following mixed review of Twenty-One Stories, Barrett praises Greene's craftsmanship but faults his inability to present realistic characters.
Graham Greene has never particularly favore...
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Below, Wilkie presents a positive assessmenet of A Sense of Reality, discussing Greene's use of myth, fantasy, and psychology in the work.
In this new collection of short fiction [A Sense of Re...
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In the following mixed review of A Sense of Reality, Corke comments on the four stories in the volume, praising Greene's professionalism and faulting his use of paradox.
Although the blurb desc...
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In the essay below, Scott examines Greene's use of myth in his short stories, focusing in particular on his depiction of the myth of childhood within the context of African and primitive themes...
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In the essay below, Boardman examines Greene's treatment of aesthetic concerns, including faith, belief imagination, and moral consciousness, in "Under the Garden."
"Under ...
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In the following mixed review of May We Borrow Your Husband? Allen states that the stories vary in quality but show "the author at play."
There is an element in writing that critics (by ...
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Critical Essay by Richard Jones
After more than 50 years before the reading public, Graham Greene has become an institution, the living proof that a contemporary novelist can tackle important subjects...
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Critical Essay by Miriam Allott
Graham Greene has been writing novels for half a century. His first novel, The Man Within, appeared in 1929, his … twentieth, The Human Factor, was published ear...
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Critical Essay by Quentin Crisp
Somebody once told me that Les Liaisons Dangereuses was the greatest novel in the world. This opinion amazed me. I thought the hero of that book ludicrously improbable....
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In the following essay, D'Cruz identifies the "comedian" as a chameleon-like figure whose emotional disengagement represents an adaptive behavior to cope with reality in a tragic ...
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In the following review, Pryce-Jones criticizes Greene's political loyalties and offers unfavorable assessment of The Captain and the Enemy.
Within living memory, broad-chested and vigorous Joh...
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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 ...
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Critical Essay by Paul Fussell
It might be thought that it's only the current absence of Faulkner and Waugh and even Hemingway that makes Greene seem a novelist of consequence instead of, say, ...
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Critical Essay by Christopher Lehmann-haupt
Why do we read "Ways of Escape" with such absorption, if it is nothing more than a collection of occasional pieces written "as a form o...
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Critical Essay by James Atlas
"A Sort of Life," the first volume of Graham Greene's autobiography, was not equivocal in its title alone. Depicted there was a typical Georgian chil...
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Critical Essay by Denis Donoghue
Ways of Escape makes one feel, yet again, how much a writer of the Thirties Greene is. The work he did in that decade, from Stamboul Train (1932), England Made Me (193...
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Critical Essay by Samuel Hynes
Graham Greene belongs to the category of obsessive artists: all of his writing life he has seen the world in essentially the same way, and he has written his novels ...
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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 Burg...
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A little place off the Edgware Road
Plot of the story
We meet a character called Craven who has a recurrent nightmare in which all the dead people walked in and out of each other's grave. He goes t...
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Graham Greene
Graham (Henry) Greene
