The quiet american
Greene was one of the most widely read writers in the 1950s and 1960s, and many of his works were adapted into films. He has been considered a Catholic writer, although his characters and his beliefs leave...
GREENE, Graham
A Sort of Life
Graham Green was born into a veritable tribe of Greenes - six children, eventually, and cousins - based in Berkhamstead at the public school where his father was headmaster.
In “A sort of life”...
The End of the Affair
This novel was published in 1951. The action takes place in London, with leaps through time, during and immediately after World War II. It tells of the adulterous relationship of Bendrix, a writer, with...
The Ministry of Fear
This great novelist's book is set in the city of London during the Second World War. The bombings are daily, the city is reduced to a small area and hundreds of people are killed every day. In addition,...
The Confidential Agent
Graham Greene, the English novelist who was always a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature but who never quite made it, wrote a number of what he called “entertainments” – crime and spy novels. In a...
El tercer hombre
Crime thriller set in Vienna, occupied by the four powers after the war. The book is just a movie script, very well done: there are almost no descriptions, only dialogues; the action is very fast. Harry has...
A Gun for Sale
Police thriller set in England on the eve of World War II. An industrialist has economic interests in the conflict, and hires Raven, a hitman, to kill a Czech Minister, which could provoke a war. But he...
The Heart of the Matter
The novel is set in West Africa during World War 2. The deputy commissioner of police, Scobie, normally tries to act ethically but makes some false moves to protect his wife after having an affair with the...