<div>A teenage sociopath rises to power in Britain&rsquo;s criminal underworld in this &ldquo;brilliant and uncompromising&rdquo; 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. On the streets, impelled by his own twisted moral doctrine, he leads a motley pack of gangsters whose sleazy little rackets have most recently erupted in the murder of an informant. Pinkie&rsquo;s attempts to cover their tracks have led him into the bed of a timid and lovestruck young waitress named Rose&mdash;his new wife, the key witness to his crimes, and, should she live long enough, his alibi. But loitering in the shadows is another woman, Ida Arnold&mdash;an avenging angel determined to do right by Pinkie&rsquo;s latest victim. Adapted for film in both 1948 and 2010 and for the stage as both a drama and musical, and serving as an inspiration to such disparate artists as Morrissey, John Barry, and Queen, &ldquo;this bleak, seething and anarchic novel still resonate[s]&rdquo; (The Guardian). </div>

Brighton Rock

<div>A &ldquo;masterful . . . brilliantly constructed novel&rdquo; of love and chaos in 1950s Vietnam (Zadie Smith, The Guardian). It&rsquo;s 1955 and British journalist Thomas Fowler has been in Vietnam for two years covering the insurgency against French colonial rule. But it&rsquo;s not just a political tangle that&rsquo;s kept him tethered to the country. There&rsquo;s also his lover, Phuong, a young Vietnamese woman who clings to Fowler for protection. Then comes Alden Pyle, an idealistic American working in service of the CIA. Devotedly, disastrously patriotic, he believes neither communism nor colonialism is what&rsquo;s best for Southeast Asia, but rather a &ldquo;Third Force&rdquo;: American democracy by any means necessary. His ideas of conquest include Phuong, to whom he promises a sweet life in the states. But as Pyle&rsquo;s blind moral conviction wreaks havoc upon innocent lives, it&rsquo;s ultimately his romantic compulsions that will play a role in his own undoing. Although criticized upon publication as anti-American, Graham Greene&rsquo;s &ldquo;complex but compelling story of intrigue and counter-intrigue&rdquo; would, in a few short years, prove prescient in its own condemnation of American interventionism (The New York Times). </div>

The Quiet American

<div>Graham Greene&rsquo;s masterful novel of love and betrayal in World War II London is &ldquo;undeniably a major work of art&rdquo; (The New Yorker). Maurice Bendrix, a writer in Clapham during the Blitz, develops an acquaintance with Sarah Miles, the bored, beautiful wife of a dull civil servant named Henry. Maurice claims it&rsquo;s to divine a character for his novel-in-progress. That&rsquo;s the first deception. What he really wants is Sarah, and what Sarah needs is a man with passion. So begins a series of reckless trysts doomed by Maurice&rsquo;s increasing romantic demands and Sarah&rsquo;s tortured sense of guilt. Then, after Maurice miraculously survives a bombing, Sarah ends the affair&mdash;quickly, absolutely, and without explanation. It&rsquo;s only when Maurice crosses paths with Sarah&rsquo;s husband that he discovers the fallout of their duplicity&mdash;and it&rsquo;s more unexpected than Maurice, Henry, or Sarah herself could have imagined. Adapted for film in both 1956 and 1999, Greene&rsquo;s novel of all that inspires love&mdash;and all that poisons it&mdash;is &ldquo;singularly moving and beautiful&rdquo; (Evelyn Waugh).</div>

The End of the Affair

<div>A famous architect struggling with a crisis of faith escapes to a leper colony in the Congo, in Graham Greene&rsquo;s &ldquo;greatest novel&rdquo; (Time). Querry is a world-renowned architect noted for his magnificent churches, each designed not for the glory of God, but for the satisfaction of self. Suddenly infected with indifference, he has abandoned his pursuit of pleasure. Now he has reached the end of desire at the end of the world&mdash;a colony of lepers in the remote jungles of Africa. Here, under the guidance of Doctor Colin, a fellow atheist, Querry&rsquo;s consideration of the sick could be something close to a cure for his own suffering. So too, it first seems, could a local plantation owner&rsquo;s lonely and abused wife&mdash;Querry&rsquo;s unlikely confessor. But when Querry reluctantly agrees to build a hospital and his good intentions brand him a modern-day saint, all the intrusive and dangerous piety of civilization returns. And this time it could be inescapable. From &ldquo;the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man&rsquo;s consciousness and anxiety&rdquo; comes Graham Greene&rsquo;s celebrated novel about the consequences of conviction, the sickness of the soul, and the tenuous endurance of the human spirit (William Golding). </div>

A Burnt-Out Case

<div>A hapless salesman in Cuba is recruited into Cold War spy games in Greene&rsquo;s classic &ldquo;comical, satirical, atmospherical&rdquo; novel (The Daily Telegraph). James Wormold, a cash-strapped vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana, finds the answer to his prayers when British Intelligence offers him a lucrative job as an undercover agent. To keep the checks coming, Wormold must at least pretend to know what he&rsquo;s doing. Soon, he&rsquo;s apparently deciphering incomprehensible codes, passing along sketches of secret weapons that look suspiciously like vacuum parts, and claiming to recruit fellow operatives from his country club, all to create the perfect picture of intrigue. But when MI6 dispatches a secretary to oversee his endeavors, Wormold fears his carelessly fabricated world will come undone. Instead, it all comes true. Somehow, he&rsquo;s become the target of an assassin, and it&rsquo;s going to take more than a fib to get out of Cuba alive. Her Majesty&rsquo;s man in Havana may have to resort to spying. Named one of the 20 Best Spy Novels of All Time by the Telegraph and adapted into the classic 1959 comedy starring Alec Guinness, Our Man in Havana is &ldquo;high-comic mayhem . . . weirdly undated . . . [and] bizarrely prescient&rdquo; (Christopher Buckley, New York Times&ndash;bestselling author). </div>

Our Man in Havana

<div>&ldquo;From first page to last . . . an engrossing novel&rdquo; of betrayal and espionage on a colonial outpost during World War II (The New York Times). In a British colony in West Africa, Henry Scobie is a pious and righteous man of modest means enlisted with securing borders. But when he&rsquo;s passed over for a promotion as commissioner of police, the humiliation hits hardest for his wife, Louise. Already oppressed by the appalling climate, frustrated in a loveless marriage, and belittled by the wives of more privileged officers, Louise wants out. Feeling responsible for her unhappiness, Henry decides against his better judgment to accept a loan from a black marketeer to secure Louise&rsquo;s passage. It&rsquo;s just a single indiscretion, yet for Henry it precipitates a rapid fall from grace as one moral compromise after another leads him into a web of blackmail, adultery, and murder. And for a devout man like Henry, there may be nothing left but damnation. Drawn from Graham Greene&rsquo;s own experiences as a British intelligence officer in Sierra Leone, The Heart of the Matter is &ldquo;a powerful, deep-striking novel . . . of a spirit lost in the darkness of the flesh&rdquo; (New York Herald Tribune). </div>

The Heart of the Matter

<div>In London during the Blitz, an amnesiac must outwit a twisted Nazi plot in this &ldquo;master thriller&rdquo; of espionage, murder, and deception (Time). On a peaceful Sunday afternoon, Arthur Rowe comes upon a charity fete in the gardens of a Cambridgeshire vicarage where he wins a game of chance. If only this were an ordinary day. Britain is under threat by Germany, and the air raid sirens that bring the bazaar to a halt expose Rowe as no ordinary man. Recently released from a psychiatric prison for the mercy killing of his wife, he is burdened by guilt, and now, in possession of a seemingly innocuous prize, on the run from a nest of Nazi spies who want him dead. Pursued on a dark odyssey through the bombed-out streets of London, he becomes enmeshed in a tangle of secrets that reach into the dark recesses of his own forgotten past. And there isn&rsquo;t a soul he can trust, not even himself. Because Arthur Rowe doesn&rsquo;t even know who he really is. &ldquo;A storyteller of genius,&rdquo; Graham Greene composed his serpentine mystery of authentic wartime espionage&mdash;and one the author&rsquo;s personal favorites&mdash;while working for MI6 (Evelyn Waugh). But The Ministry of Fear &ldquo;is more than a mere thriller . . . [it&rsquo;s a] hypnotic moonstone of a novel&rdquo; (The New York Times).</div>

The Ministry of Fear

<div>Strangers in Port-au-Prince are united in the corruption, fear, and revolt of Duvalier-era Haiti in &ldquo;the most interesting novel of [Greene&rsquo;s] career&rdquo; (The Nation). Haiti, under the rule of Papa Doc and his menacing paramilitary, the Tontons Macoute, has long been abandoned by tourists. Now it is home to corrupt capitalists, foreign ambassadors and their lonely wives&mdash;and a small group of enterprising strangers rocking into port on the Dutch cargo ship, Medea: a well-meaning pair of Americans claiming to bring vegetarianism to the natives; a former jungle fighter in World War II Burma and current confidence man; and an English hotelier returning home to the Trianon, an unsalable shell of an establishment on the hills above the capital. Each is embroiled in a charade. But when they&rsquo;re unsuspectingly bound together in this nightmare republic of squalid poverty, torrid love affairs, and impending violence, their masks will be stripped away. &ldquo;While Mr. Greene . . . specialized in chronicling the moral and political murkiness he encountered in the third world . . . nowhere did he produce a more topical or damning work of fiction than [in The Comedians]&rdquo; (The New York Times). Banned in Haiti, and condemned by Papa Doc Duvalier, it was adapted by Greene into a 1967 film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. </div>

The Comedians

<div>This prize-winning novel of a fugitive priest in Mexico is quite simply &ldquo;Graham Greene&rsquo;s masterpiece&rdquo; (John Updike, The New York Review of Books). In the Mexican state of Tabasco in the 1930s, all vestiges of Catholicism are being outlawed by the government. As churches are razed, icons are banned, and the price of devotion is execution, an unnamed member of the clergy flees. He&rsquo;s known only as the &ldquo;whisky priest.&rdquo; Beset by heretical vices, guilt, and an immoral past, he&rsquo;s torn between self-destruction and self-preservation. Too modest to be a martyr, too stubborn to follow the law, and too craven to take a bullet, he now travels as one of the hunted&mdash;attending, in secret, to the spiritual needs of the faithful. When a peasant begs him to return to Tabasco to hear the confessions of a dying man, the whisky priest knows it&rsquo;s a trap. But it&rsquo;s also his duty&mdash;and possibly his salvation. Named by Time magazine as one of the hundred best English-language novels written since 1923, The Power and the Glory is &ldquo;a violent, raw&rdquo; work on &ldquo;suffering, strained faith, and ultimate redemption&rdquo; (The Atlantic).</div>

The Power and the Glory

<div>A retired London bank manager is yanked out of the suburbs by his eccentric aunt for a &ldquo;cheerfully irreverent&rdquo; romp across Europe (The Guardian). Now that the dullish Henry Pulling has left his job with an agreeable pension and a firm handshake, he plans to spend more time weeding his dahlias. Then, for the first time in fifty years, he sees his aunt Augusta at his mother&rsquo;s funeral. Charging into her seventies with florid abandon, not a day of her life wasted, and her future as bright as her brilliant red hair, Augusta insists that Henry abandon his garden, follow her, and hold on tight. With that, she whisks her nephew out of Brighton and boards the Orient Express bound for Paris and Istanbul, then on to Paraguay, and down the rabbit hole of her past that swarms with swindlers, smugglers, war criminals, and rather unconventional lovers. With each new stop, Henry discovers not only more about his aunt and her secrets but also about himself as well. Pulsing with &ldquo;the tragic and comic ironies of love, loyalty and belief&rdquo; Graham Greene&rsquo;s deceptive lark of novel was made into the 1972 film starring Maggie Smith (The Times, London). </div>

Travels with My Aunt

<div>The &ldquo;strikingly original&rdquo; debut novel by the masterful British author is &ldquo;a perfect adventure&rdquo; of love and smuggling on the English coast (The Nation). Francis Andrews is a reluctant smuggler living in the shadow of his brutish father&rsquo;s legacy. To exorcise the ghosts of the man he loathes, Andrews betrays his colleagues to authorities and takes flight across the downs. It&rsquo;s here that he stumbles upon the isolated cottage of a beguiling stranger named Elizabeth&mdash;an empathetic young woman who is just as lonely, every bit the outsider as he, and reconciling a troubling past of her own. Andrews, a man on the run from those he exposed, believes he&rsquo;s found refuge and salvation. But when Elizabeth encourages him to return to the courts of Lewes and give evidence against his accomplices, the treacherous and deadly repercussions may be beyond their control. &ldquo;The ultimate strengths of [Graham] Greene&rsquo;s books is that he shows us the hazards of compassion,&rdquo; a theme that would find its earliest expression in The Man Within, his first published novel (Pico Iyer). </div>

The Man Within

<div>An &ldquo;adventurous . . . intelligent . . . ingenious&rdquo; novel of crime and punishment in pre&ndash;World War II London (V. S. Pritchett). During a demonstration in Hyde Park, Communist bus driver Jim Drover acts on instinct to protect his wife by stabbing to death the policeman set to strike her down. Sentenced to hang&mdash;whether as a martyr, tool, or murderer&mdash;Drover accepts his lot, unaware that the ramifications for the crime, and the battle for his reprieve, are inflaming political unrest in an increasingly divided city. But Drover&rsquo;s single, impulsive act is also upending the lives of the people he loves and trusts. Caught in a quicksand of desperation, sexual betrayal, and guilt, they will not only play a part in Drover&rsquo;s fate, but they&rsquo;ll become agents&mdash;both unwitting and calculated&mdash;of their own fates as well. Turning the traditional narrative of the police procedural, domestic drama, and political thriller on its head, It&rsquo;s a Battlefield was described by Graham Greene himself as &ldquo;a panoramic novel of London,&rdquo; one without heroes and villains, only &ldquo;the injustice of man&rsquo;s justice.&rdquo; </div>

It's a Battlefield

<div>In postwar London, a boy is drawn into a labyrinth of personal betrayals, intrigue, love, and revolution: &ldquo;In short, a tremendous yarn&rdquo; (Paul Theroux). On his twelfth birthday, Victor Baxter is spirited away from boarding school by a stranger known only as the Captain who claims to have won him in a backgammon game with the boy&rsquo;s diabolical father. Settling into a new life in a dire London flat, Victor becomes the willing ward of his mysterious abductor and the tender and childless Liza. He quickly adapts to the only family he&rsquo;s ever known, despite the Captain&rsquo;s long disappearances on suspicious &ldquo;adventures&rdquo; and a guarded curiosity about this peculiar but devoted couple who call him son. Then one day, in pursuit of answers, and perhaps an adventure of his own, Victor responds to an entreaty from the Captain to come to Panama. What transpires in this world of dangerous imposture is absolutely revelatory&mdash;for both Victor and the Captain. In Graham Greene&rsquo;s final novel, &ldquo;we enter those disparate worlds [he] has made his own&mdash;the England of Brighton Rock and The Ministry of Fear, and the exotic Central American territories in which his restless talent has so often roamed&rdquo; (The New York Times). </div>

The Captain and the Enemy

<div>Greene&rsquo;s &ldquo;sharply, often incisively etched&rdquo; novel of the interlocked fates of unwary strangers on a train from Belgium to Constantinople (The New York Times). The Orient Express has embarked from Ostend for a three-day journey to Cologne, Vienna, and Constantinople. The passenger list includes a Jewish trader from London with business interests in Turkey&mdash;and a score to settle; a vulnerable chorus girl on her last legs; a boozy and spiteful journalist who&rsquo;s found an unrequited love in her paid companion, and her latest scoop in second class&mdash;a Serbian dissident in disguise on his way to lead a revolution; and a murderer on the run looking for a getaway. As the train hurtles across Europe, the fates of everyone on board will collide long before the Orient Express rushes headlong to its final destination. Originally published in the UK as Stamboul Train in 1932, Graham Greene&rsquo;s &ldquo;novel has movement, variety, interest; taken on the surface, it is an interesting and entertaining story of adventure, penetrated through and through with the consciousness of the on-rushing train, with that curious sense of the temporary suspension of one&rsquo;s ordinary existence which comes to many on ship or train&rdquo; (The New York Times). </div>

Orient Express

<div>The British author embarks on an awe-inspiring trek through 1930s West Africa in &ldquo;one of the best travel books [of the twentieth] century&rdquo; (The Independent). When Graham Greene left Liverpool in 1935 for what was then an Africa unmarked by colonization, it was to leave the known transgressions of his own civilization behind for those unknown. First by cargo ship, then by train and truck through Sierra Leone, and finally on foot, Greene embarked on a dangerous and unpredictable 350-mile, four-week trek through Liberia with his cousin, and a handful of servants and bearers, into a world where few had ever seen a white man. For Greene, this odyssey became as much a trip into the primitive interiors of the writer himself as it was a physical journey into a land foreign to his experience. &ldquo;No one who reads this book will question the value of Greene&rsquo;s experiment, or emerge unshaken by the penetration, the richness, the integrity of this moving record.&rdquo; &mdash;The Guardian </div>

Journey Without Maps

<div>In Greene&rsquo;s &ldquo;magnificent tour-de-force among tales of international intrigue,&rdquo; rival agents engage in a deadly game of cat and mouse in prewar England (The New York Times). D., a widowed professor of Romance literature, has arrived in Dover on a peaceful yet important mission. He&rsquo;s to negotiate a contract to buy coal for his country, one torn by civil war. With it, there&rsquo;s a chance to defeat fascist influences. Without it, the loyalists will fail. When D. strikes up a romantic acquaintance with the estranged but solicitous daughter of a powerful coal-mining magnate, everything appears to be in his favor&mdash;if not for a counteragent who has come to England with the intent of sabotaging every move he makes. Accused of forgery and theft, and roped into a charge of murder, D. becomes a hunted man, hemmed in at every turn by an ever-tightening net of intrigue and double cross, with no one left to trust but himself. Written during the height of the Spanish Civil War, Graham Greene&rsquo;s &ldquo;exciting . . . kaleidoscopic affair&rdquo; was the basis for the classic 1945 thriller starring Charles Boyer and Lauren Bacall (The Sunday Times). </div>

The Confidential Agent

<div>A detective and a chorus girl stalk the shadows of a murderer in this thriller from &ldquo;a pioneer of the modern mood we now think of as noir&rdquo; (LA Weekly). Born out of a brutal childhood, Raven is an assassin for hire whose latest hit&mdash;a government minister&mdash;is one calculated to ignite a war. When the most wanted man in England is paid off in marked bills, he also becomes the easiest to track&mdash;and police detective Jimmy Mather has the lead. But Raven&rsquo;s got an advantage. Crossing paths with a sympathetic dancer named Anne Crowder, the emotionally scarred Raven has found someone in the wreckage of his life he can trust, maybe his only hope for salvation. Or at least, escape&mdash;because Anne is also Mather&rsquo;s fianc&eacute;e. Now the fate of two men will depend on her. And either way, it&rsquo;s betrayal. With its themes of deception, double cross, and the consequences of indiscriminate passion, the breathless cinematic narrative of Graham Greene&rsquo;s thriller became a perfect fit for the classic 1942 film noir starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake. </div>

A Gun for Sale

<div>A collection of twelve disarmingly witty tales about the complexities of love and intimacy from &ldquo;a storyteller of genius&rdquo; (Evelyn Waugh). &ldquo;The sense of the author at play dominates&rdquo; Graham Greene&rsquo;s entertaining anthology as the masterful British author looks at love, lies, vanity, mortality, romantic obsessions, and seduction from a dozen sharply observed perspectives (The New York Times). A bored faculty wife looking for a fling discovers something more illuminating than sex; a jaded writer who eavesdrops on a pair of hopeful lovers feels compelled to relieve them of their foolish ideals and ambitions; a widow and a divorc&eacute;e commiserate in mourning for their lost men, only to rejoice in their freedom after two bottles of blanc de blancs; a young man devises a test of true love&mdash;to find a woman who won&rsquo;t laugh at the absurd circumstances of his father&rsquo;s death; and in the title story, an oblivious young bride honeymooning in Antibes encourages a friendship between a gay couple and her adventurous and handsome new husband. </div>

May We Borrow Your Husband?

<div>These wide-ranging tales of menace, tragedy, and comedy offer ample proof that &ldquo;in the short story, as well as the novel, Graham Greene is the master&rdquo; (The New York Times). Written between 1929 and 1954, here are twenty-one stories by a &ldquo;master storyteller&rdquo; (Newsweek). Whatever the crime, whatever the pursuit, whatever the mood&mdash;from the tragic and horrifying to the ribald and bittersweet, Graham Greene is &ldquo;the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man&rsquo;s consciousness and anxiety&rdquo; (William Golding). In &ldquo;The End of the Party,&rdquo; a game of hide-and-seek takes a terrifying turn in the dark. In &ldquo;The Innocent,&rdquo; a romantic gets a rude awakening when he finds a hidden keepsake from a childhood crush. A husband&rsquo;s sexual indiscretion is revealed in a most public and embarrassing way in &ldquo;The Blue Film.&rdquo; A rebellious teen&rsquo;s flight from her petit bourgeois life includes a bad boy, a gun, and a plan in &ldquo;A Drive in the Country.&rdquo; In &ldquo;A Little Place off the Edgware Road,&rdquo; a suicidal man&rsquo;s encounter with a stranger in a grubby cinema seals his fate. A young boy is ushered into a dark world when he discovers the secrets adults hide in &ldquo;The Basement Room.&rdquo; And in &ldquo;When Greek Meets Greek,&rdquo; a clever con between two scoundrels carries an unexpected sting. In these and more than a dozen other stories, Greene confronts his usual themes of betrayal and vengeance, love and hate, faith and doubt, guilt and grief, and pity and pursuit. </div>

Twenty-One Stories

<div>A Monte Carlo honeymoon becomes a gamble in Graham Greene&rsquo;s &ldquo;superbly well told&rdquo; comedy of love, marriage, and risk (J. B. Priestley). A modest London accountant on a budget, Mr. Bertram has settled on a honeymoon at the seaside resort of Bournemouth with his fianc&eacute;e, Cary. However, Bertram&rsquo;s boss, the solicitous Herbert Dreuther, won&rsquo;t hear of anything so common. Bertram and Cary are to be married in Monte Carlo, after which they&rsquo;ll be Dreuther&rsquo;s guests on his private yacht and sail down the coast of Italy. It sounds too lovely to be true. And surely Bertram can afford one night at the H&ocirc;tel de Paris. But when the absentminded Dreuther fails to show, and days turn into weeks, Bertram and Cary find themselves well beyond their means. Unable to check out, trapped in luxury, and with nowhere to turn but the casino, Bertram has a plan&mdash;and absolutely no idea what there is left to lose. </div>

Loser Takes All

<div>A &ldquo;delicious . . . champagne cocktail&rdquo; of a stage comedy about a sporting British couple&rsquo;s marital&mdash;and extramarital&mdash;propositions (New York Herald Tribune). Victor Rhodes, a hearty and amiable dentist in North London, has what he thinks is a happy marriage. It&rsquo;s stable, routine, and comfortably platonic. Five years and counting, his wife, Mary, feels the same way. That&rsquo;s why she&rsquo;s taken a secret lover&mdash;their good friend, Clive Root, an antiquarian bookseller for whom relieving complaisant husbands of their duty is a pleasure. But when Mary and Clive connive a rendezvous in Amsterdam, their getaway takes a surprising turn with a visit from Victor. What&rsquo;s now at risk for Mary is more than a marriage to a man she genuinely loves but also a perfectly fulfilling affair with a man she truly desires. In this &ldquo;sin-and-tonic work of art,&rdquo; Mary isn&rsquo;t about to give up either of them (Spectator). &ldquo;An expert at badinage full of quiet English verve, Mr. Greene writes with smooth sophistication&rdquo; in his last play&mdash;a comedy of lies, cheats, and betrayals&mdash;produced by Sir John Gielgud at the Globe Theatre, London, in 1959 (The New York Times). Two years later, it debuted on Broadway, with a cast including Sandy Dennis, Michael Redgrave, and Gene Wilder. </div>

The Complaisant Lover

<div>The illicit affair of a devout woman in London ignites a shattering family crisis in the author&rsquo;s &ldquo;ruthlessly honest&rdquo; first play (The Guardian). In a dour Holland Park house with rooms and secrets long shuttered live three unyielding forces for morality: rigidly religious sisters Helen and Teresa, and their brother, a Roman Catholic priest. Into the lives of this insular trio comes their young grandniece, Rose Pemberton, following the death of her mother. To the mortification of her aunts, Rose has also brought her lover, Michael Dennis, who is twenty-five years Rose&rsquo;s senior, married, and a psychology lecturer dictated by reason, not faith. In a home that reeks of sanctimony, Rose and Michael are as welcome as sin. But it&rsquo;s the arrival of Michael&rsquo;s distraught wife&mdash;armed with righteous emotional blackmail and worse&mdash;that ignites an unexpected fury and makes real the family&rsquo;s greatest fears. Premiering in London in 1953 and moving to Broadway one year later, Graham Greene&rsquo;s debut as a dramatist was hailed by Kenneth Tynan as &ldquo;the best first play of its generation.&rdquo; </div>

The Living Room

<div>With his &ldquo;sheer mastery of narrative,&rdquo; the British novelist takes a detour into the uncanny and wondrously absurd in these &ldquo;compelling&rdquo; stories (The Guardian). An ambitious departure for an author renowned for his realism, this collection of short fiction &ldquo;collectively . . . [engages] in a reconnaissance through the dustier reaches of man&rsquo;s experience with [the] spectres of doubt, defeat, failure and paradox&rdquo; (Kirkus Reviews). In &ldquo;Under the Garden,&rdquo; William Wilditch, a restless loner given to wanderlust, takes one final journey as he approaches death&mdash;back to his childhood home where he discovers that the memories of his youth are simply not to be believed. In &ldquo;A Visit to Morin,&rdquo; an admirer and old friend of a once-renowned Catholic writer is unprepared for the startling confessions of the spiritually bereft, now-reclusive scribe. On a vast plantation, a peculiar wish is granted a poor leper by his physician-in-charge&mdash;and for one rowdy winter night, a &ldquo;Dream of a Strange Land&rdquo; becomes a reality. Finally, for a group of children scouting the apocalyptic ruins at the edge of their village, &ldquo;A Discovery in the Woods&rdquo; opens their eyes to a lost world they never knew existed. With these versatile forays into myth, memory, magic realism, and dystopian futures, Greene once again proves himself &ldquo;a storyteller of genius&rdquo; (Evelyn Waugh).</div>

A Sense of Reality

<div>The British author shares the &ldquo;strange . . . inner layers of his playful, guilty imagination&rdquo; in this glimpse into a brilliant novelist&rsquo;s subconscious (The New York Times). Culled from nearly eight hundred pages of the author&rsquo;s &ldquo;dream diaries&rdquo; kept between 1965 and 1989, this singular journal reveals &ldquo;the feverish inner life of an intensely private man, providing an uncanny mirror-image of [his] novelistic obsessions, insecurities, and moral preoccupations&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). In what Greene calls My Own World&mdash;as opposed to the Common World of shared reality&mdash;he accompanies Henry James on a disagreeable riverboat trip to Bogota, is caught in a guerilla crossfire with Evelyn Waugh and W. H. Auden, strolls in the Vatican garden with Pope John Paul II who&rsquo;s doling out Perugina chocolates like hosts, offers refuge to a suicidal Charlie Chaplin, and stages a disastrous play in blank verse for Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. He also shares his headspace with Goebbels, Castro, Cocteau, Queen Elizabeth, D. H. Lawrence, and talking kittens. And the landscape is just as wide: from Nazi Germany to Haiti to West Africa to Bethlehem 1 AD and to Sweden where he seeks treatment for leprosy. Greene is a criminal, spy, lover, assassin, witness, and writer. Encompassing life, death, war, feuds, and career, and alternately absurdist, frightening, funny, and revealing, these fertile imaginings&mdash;many of which found their way into Greene&rsquo;s fiction&mdash;comprise nothing less than &ldquo;an alternate autobiography . . . a uniquely candid self-portrait&rdquo; of one of the giants of English literature (Kirkus Reviews). </div>

A World of My Own

<div>This eyewitness account of religious and political persecution in 1930s Mexico inspired the British novelist&rsquo;s &ldquo;masterpiece,&rdquo; The Power and the Glory (John Updike). In 1938, Graham Greene, a burgeoning convert to Roman Catholicism, was commissioned to expose the anticlerical purges in Mexico by President Plutarco El&iacute;as Calles. Churches had been destroyed, peasants held secret masses in their homes, religious icons were banned, and priests disappeared. Traveling under the growing clouds of fascism, Greene was anxious to see for himself the effect it had on the people&mdash;what he found was a combination of despair, resignation, and fierce resilience. Journeying through the rugged and remote terrain of Chiapas and Tabasco, Greene&rsquo;s emotional, gut response to the landscape, the sights and sounds, the fears, the oppressive heat, and the state of mind under &ldquo;the fiercest persecution of religion anywhere since the reign of Elizabeth&rdquo; makes for a vivid and candid account, and stands alone as a &ldquo;singularly beautiful travel book&rdquo; (New Statesman). Hailed by William Golding as &ldquo;the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man&rsquo;s consciousness and anxiety,&rdquo; Greene would draw on the experiences of The Lawless Roads for one of his greatest novels, The Power and the Glory. </div>

The Lawless Roads

<div>From Dickens to Wilde&mdash;literary criticism and personal reflections by a master &ldquo;unmatched . . . in his uncanny psychological insights&rdquo; (The New York Times). Graham Greene shares his love affair with reading in this collection of essays, memories, and critical considerations, both affectionate and tart, &ldquo;[that] could have come from no other source than the author of Brighton Rock and The Power and the Glory&rdquo; (The Scotsman). Whether following the obsessions of Henry James, marveling at the &ldquo;indispensible&rdquo; Beatrix Potter, or exploring the Manichean world of Oliver Twist, Graham Greene revisits the books and authors of his lifetime. Here is Greene on Fielding, Doyle, Kipling, and Conrad; on The Prisoner of Zenda and the &ldquo;revolutionary . . . colossal egoism&rdquo; of Laurence Stern&rsquo;s epic comic novel, Tristram Shandy; on the adventures of both Allan Quatermain and Moll Flanders; and more. Greene strolls among the musty oddities and folios sold on the cheap at an outdoor book mart, tells of a bizarre literary hoax perpetrated on a hapless printseller in eighteenth-century Pall Mall, and in the titular essay, reveals the book that unlocked his imagination so thoroughly that he decided to write forever. For Greene, &ldquo;all the other possible futures slid away.&rdquo; In this prismatic gallery of profound influences and guiltless pleasures, Greene proves himself &ldquo;so intensely alive that the reader cannot but respond to the dazzling combination of intelligence and strong feeling&rdquo; (Edward Sackville West). </div>

The Lost Childhood

<div>From the British novelist, this Tony Award&ndash;winning drama of family secrets delivers &ldquo;brilliantly effective . . . enormously provocative . . . theatrical suspense&rdquo; (New York Post). The Callifer family has assembled in the English country home of Wild Grove where its patriarch&mdash;a once-renowned rationalist and man of letters&mdash;nears death. Arriving unexpectedly to pay his respects is his son, James, a pariah among the Callifers, who finds a dark veil still drawn over his mysterious childhood. It was decades ago, when James was fourteen, that something happened to him in the garden shed, a black hole in his memories. For everyone else, it&rsquo;s an unforgettable source of unease&mdash;and for some, unforgiveable. To discover the truth, James seeks out his ostracized uncle, an alcoholic priest with nothing left to lose. What unfolds makes for &ldquo;some of the most moving, forceful and compelling theatre since Eugene O&rsquo;Neill&rdquo; (The Harvard Crimson). Graham Greene&rsquo;s Tony Award&ndash;winning work for the stage made its Broadway debut in 1957 and was hailed by the New York Times as &ldquo;an original drama that probes deep into the spirit and casts a spell.&rdquo; </div>

The Potting Shed

<div>From &ldquo;the most ingenious, inventive, and exciting of our novelists&rdquo;: Three brilliant novels exploring colonialism, faith, and the mysteries of desire (V. S. Pritchett). This collection features three classic novels that explore Graham Greene&rsquo;s most important themes: Catholicism, international intrigue, and the never-ending struggle to know oneself. From West Africa to Vietnam to Mexico, these stories prove that &ldquo;no serious writer of [the twentieth] century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than Graham Greene&rdquo; (Time). The Heart of the Matter: In a British colony of West Africa, Henry Scobie is a pious man of modest means charged with securing borders. But when he&rsquo;s passed over for a promotion, the humiliation hits hard&mdash;for his wife. To make it up to her, Henry accepts a loan from a black marketeer to secure Louise&rsquo;s passage out of Africa. His single indiscretion quickly leads him&mdash;one moral compromise after another&mdash;into a web of blackmail, adultery, and murder. &ldquo;A powerful, deep-striking novel . . . of a spirit lost in the darkness of the flesh.&rdquo; &mdash;New York Herald Tribune The Quiet American: Vietnam, 1955. British journalist Thomas Fowler is covering the insurgency against French colonial rule and doing what he can to protect his Vietnamese lover, Phuong. Alden Pyle of the CIA believes in bringing American democracy to Vietnam by any means necessary. But when his ideas of conquest come to include Phuong, pride, passion, and blind moral conviction collide with terrible consequences. &ldquo;A heartrending romance . . . Haunting and profound.&rdquo; &mdash;All Things Considered, NPR The Power and the Glory: In 1930s Tabasco, Mexico, Catholicism is being outlawed. As churches are razed and devotees are executed, a member of the clergy known only as the &ldquo;whisky priest&rdquo; flees. He now travels as one of the hunted&mdash;attending, in secret, to the spiritual needs of the faithful. When a peasant begs him to return to Tabasco to hear the confessions of a dying man, the whisky priest knows it&rsquo;s a trap. But it&rsquo;s also his duty&mdash;and possibly his salvation. &ldquo;A thriller&mdash;but also a novel of ideas . . . A book I would have simply died to write.&rdquo; &mdash;Scott Turow, New York Times&ndash;bestselling author </div>

The Collected Novels Volume Two

<div>Three iconic novels from &ldquo;a superb storyteller with a gift for provoking controversy&rdquo; (The New York Times). Graham Greene has been hailed as &ldquo;one of the finest writers of any language&rdquo; (The Washington Post) and &ldquo;the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man&rsquo;s consciousness and anxiety&rdquo; (William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies). His extraordinary reputation rests largely on these three superb novels, all of which have been adapted into classic films. Brighton Rock: Seventeen-year-old Pinkie Brown, raised in the prewar Brighton slums, leads a motley pack of gangsters whose small-time scams have erupted in murder. The coverup leads Pinkie to a timid and lovestruck young waitress&mdash;his new wife, the key witness to his crimes, and, should she live long enough, his alibi. But loitering in the shadows is another woman&mdash;one determined to avenge Pinkie&rsquo;s latest victim. &ldquo;Brilliant and uncompromising.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times The End of the Affair: Maurice Bendrix, a writer in Clapham during the Blitz, and Sarah Miles, the bored, beautiful wife of a dull civil servant, begin a series of doomed and reckless trysts. After Maurice miraculously survives a bombing, Sarah ends the affair&mdash;quickly and without explanation. It&rsquo;s only when Maurice crosses paths with Sarah&rsquo;s husband that he discovers the unexpected fallout of their duplicity. &ldquo;One of the most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody&rsquo;s language.&rdquo; &mdash;William Faulkner, Nobel Prize&ndash;winning author Our Man in Havana: James Wormold, a cash-strapped vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana, finds the answer to his prayers when British Intelligence offers him a lucrative job as an undercover agent. To keep the checks coming, he passes along sketches of secret weapons that look suspiciously like vacuum parts. But when MI6 dispatches a secretary to oversee his endeavors, Wormold fears his fabricated world will come undone. Instead, it all comes true. Somehow, he&rsquo;s become the target of an assassin, and it&rsquo;s going to take more than a fib to get out of Cuba alive. &ldquo;High-comic mayhem . . . weirdly undated . . . [and] bizarrely prescient.&rdquo; &mdash;Christopher Buckley, New York Times&ndash;bestselling author</div>

The Collected Novels Volume One

<div>Three compelling novels from the British author who has been hailed as &ldquo;one of the finest writers of any language&rdquo; (The Washington Post). In these novels of international intrigue and domestic drama, political injustice and crime, and the possibility of redemption, Graham Greene once again emerges as &ldquo;the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man&rsquo;s consciousness and anxiety&rdquo; (William Golding, Nobel Prize&ndash;winning author of Lord of the Flies). Orient Express: The Orient Express has embarked on a three-day journey from Ostend to Cologne, Vienna, and Constantinople. The passenger list includes a Jewish trader from London with business interests in Turkey&mdash;and a score to settle; a vulnerable chorus girl on her last legs; a boozy and spiteful journalist who&rsquo;s found an unrequited love in her paid companion, and her latest scoop in second class: a Serbian dissident in disguise on his way to lead a revolution; and a murderer on the run looking for a getaway. As the train hurtles across Europe, the fates of everyone on board will collide long before the Orient Express rushes headlong to its final destination. &ldquo;Interesting and entertaining.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times It&rsquo;s a Battlefield: In pre&ndash;World War II London, during a demonstration in Hyde Park, Communist bus driver Jim Drover acts on instinct to protect his wife by stabbing to death the policeman set to strike her down. Sentenced to hang&mdash;whether as a martyr, tool, or murderer&mdash;Drover accepts his lot, unaware that the ramifications of the crime, and the battle for his reprieve, are inflaming political unrest. But Drover&rsquo;s single, impulsive act is also upending the lives of the people he loves and trusts. Caught in a quicksand of desperation, sexual betrayal, and guilt, they will not only play a part in Drover&rsquo;s fate, they&rsquo;ll become agents&mdash;both unwitting and calculated&mdash;of their own fates as well. &ldquo;Adventurous . . . intelligent . . . ingenious.&rdquo; &mdash;V. S. Pritchett A Gun for Sale: Born out of a brutal childhood, Raven is an assassin for hire whose latest hit&mdash;a government minister&mdash;is calculated to ignite a war. When the most wanted man in England is paid off in marked bills, he also becomes the easiest to track&mdash;and police detective Jimmy Mather has the lead. But Raven&rsquo;s got an advantage. Crossing paths with a sympathetic dancer named Anne Crowder, the emotionally scarred Raven has found someone in the wreckage of his life he can trust, maybe his only hope for salvation. Or at least, escape&mdash;because Anne is also Mather&rsquo;s fianc&eacute;e. Now the fate of two men will depend on her. And either way, it&rsquo;s betrayal. &ldquo;[Greene is] a pioneer of the modern mood we now think of as noir.&rdquo; &mdash;LA Weekly</div>

The Collected Novels Volume Three

<div>A quartet of compelling novels from the British author hailed as &ldquo;one of the most significant novelists of his time&rdquo; (Newsweek). From a crisis of faith to a leap of faith, from betrayal and corruption to the hope of redemption, the gripping novels in this collection reveal &ldquo;a storyteller of genius&rdquo; (Evelyn Waugh). A Burnt-Out Case: Querry, a world-renowned architect noted for his magnificent churches, is suffering a crisis of faith that&rsquo;s led him to what seems like the end of the world: a colony of lepers in the Congo. Here, under the guidance of Doctor Colin, a fellow atheist, Querry&rsquo;s consideration of the sick could be something close to a cure for his spiritual malaise. So too, it first seems, could a local plantation owner&rsquo;s lonely and abused wife&mdash;Querry&rsquo;s unlikely confessor. But when Querry reluctantly agrees to build a hospital and his good intentions brand him a modern-day saint, all the intrusive and dangerous piety of civilization returns. And this time it could be inescapable. &ldquo;[Greene&rsquo;s] greatest novel.&rdquo; &mdash;Time The Captain and the Enemy: On his twelfth birthday, Victor Baxter is spirited away from boarding school by a stranger known only as the Captain, who claims to have won him from the boy&rsquo;s diabolical father. Settling into a new life in a dire London flat, Victor becomes the willing ward of his mysterious abductor and the tender and childless Liza. He quickly adapts to the only family he&rsquo;s ever known, despite the Captain&rsquo;s long disappearances on suspicious &ldquo;adventures&rdquo; and a guarded curiosity about this peculiar but devoted couple. Then one day, in pursuit of answers, and perhaps an adventure of his own, Victor responds to an entreaty from the Captain to come to Panama. What follows in this world of dangerous imposture is absolutely revelatory. &ldquo;[A] tremendous yarn.&rdquo; &mdash;Paul Theroux The Comedians: Haiti, under the rule of Papa Doc and his menacing paramilitary, the Tontons Macoute, has long been abandoned by tourists. Now it is home to corrupt capitalists, foreign ambassadors and their lonely wives&mdash;and a small group of enterprising strangers arriving in Port-au-Prince: a well-meaning American couple claiming to bring vegetarianism to the natives; a former fighter in World War II Burma and current confidence man; and an English hotelier returning home to the Trianon, an unsalable shell of an establishment on the hills above the capital. Each is embroiled in a charade. But when they&rsquo;re unsuspectingly bound together in this nightmare republic of squalid poverty, torrid love affairs, and impending violence, their masks will be stripped away. &ldquo;The most interesting novel of [Greene&rsquo;s] career.&rdquo; &mdash;The Nation The Man Within: In Greene&rsquo;s debut novel, Francis Andrews is a reluctant smuggler living in the shadow of his brutish father&rsquo;s legacy. To exorcise the ghosts of the man he loathes, Andrews betrays his colleagues to authorities and takes flight across the downs. He stumbles upon the isolated cottage of a beguiling stranger named Elizabeth, an empathetic young woman who is just as lonely, every bit the outsider as he, and reconciling a troubling past of her own. On the run from those he exposed, Andrews believes he&rsquo;s found refuge and salvation. But when Elizabeth encourages him to return to the courts of Lewes and give evidence against his accomplices, the treacherous and deadly repercussions may be beyond their control. &ldquo;Strikingly original . . . a perfect adventure.&rdquo; &mdash;The Nation</div>

The Collected Novels Volume Five

<div>From exuberant comedy to edge-of-your-seat intrigue, a trio of novels from &ldquo;a superb storyteller&rdquo; (The New York Times). These three novels&mdash;ranging from a journey of transformation with a larger-than-life aunt to dark tales of international intrigue&mdash;beautifully illustrate the myriad ways in which the acclaimed British author &ldquo;had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature&rdquo; (John le Carr&eacute;). Travels with my Aunt: Now that dullish London bank manager Henry Pulling has retired with an agreeable pension, he plans to spend more time weeding his dahlias. Then, for the first time in fifty years, he sees his aunt Augusta at his mother&rsquo;s funeral. Charging into her seventies with florid abandon, Augusta insists that Henry abandon his garden, follow her, and hold on tight. She whisks her nephew out of Brighton and onto the Orient Express bound for Paris and Istanbul, then on to Paraguay, and down the rabbit hole of her past, which swarms with swindlers, smugglers, war criminals, and rather unconventional lovers. With each new stop, Henry discovers not only more about his aunt and her secrets but also about himself. &ldquo;Cheerfully irreverent.&rdquo; &mdash;The Guardian The Confidential Agent: In prewar England, D., a professor of Romance literature, has arrived in Dover on an important mission to buy coal for his country, one torn by civil war. With it, there&rsquo;s a chance to defeat fascist influences. Without it, the loyalists will fail. When D. strikes up a romance with the estranged but solicitous daughter of a powerful coal-mining magnate, everything appears to be in his favor&mdash;if not for a counteragent who has come to England with the intent of sabotaging every move he makes. Accused of forgery and theft, and roped into a charge of murder, D. becomes a hunted man, hemmed in at every turn by an ever-tightening net of intrigue and double cross. &ldquo;[A] magnificent tour-de-force among tales of international intrigue.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times The Ministry of Fear: On a peaceful Sunday afternoon, Arthur Rowe comes upon a charity fete where he wins a game of chance. If only this were an ordinary day. Britain is under threat by Germany, and the air raid sirens that bring the bazaar to a halt expose Rowe as no ordinary man. Recently released from a psychiatric prison for the mercy killing of his wife, he is burdened by guilt, and now, in possession of a seemingly innocuous prize, on the run from Nazi spies who want him dead. Pursued on a dark odyssey through the bombed-out streets of London, there isn&rsquo;t a soul he can trust, not even himself. Because amnesiac Arthur Rowe doesn&rsquo;t even know who he really is. &ldquo;[A] master thriller.&rdquo; &mdash;Time</div>

The Collected Novels Volume Four

<div>A pair of revelatory travel memoirs from &ldquo;a superb storyteller . . . [who] had a talent for depicting local color&rdquo; (The New York Times). &ldquo;One of the finest writers of any language,&rdquo; British author Graham Greene embarked on two awe-inspiring and eye-opening journeys in the 1930s&mdash;to West Africa and to Mexico (The Washington Post). Greene would find himself both shaken and inspired by these trips, which would go on to inform his novels. Journey Without Maps: When Graham Greene set off from Liverpool in 1935 for what was then an Africa unmarked by colonization, it was to leave the known transgressions of his own civilization behind for those unknown. First by cargo ship, then by train and truck through Sierra Leone, and finally on foot, Greene embarked on a dangerous and unpredictable 350-mile, four-week trek through Liberia with his cousin and a handful of servants and bearers into a world where few had ever seen a white man. For Greene, this odyssey became as much a trip into the primitive interiors of the writer himself as it was a physical journey into a land foreign to his experience. &ldquo;One of the best travel books [of the twentieth] century.&rdquo; &mdash;The Independent The Lawless Roads: This eyewitness account of religious and political persecution in 1930s Mexico inspired The Power and the Glory, the British novelist&rsquo;s &ldquo;masterpiece&rdquo; (John Updike). In 1938, Greene, a burgeoning convert to Roman Catholicism, was commissioned to expose the anticlerical purges in Mexico. Churches had been destroyed, peasants held secret masses in their homes, religious icons were banned, and priests disappeared. Traveling under the growing clouds of fascism, Greene was anxious to see for himself the effect it had on the people. Journeying through the rugged and remote terrain of Chiapas and Tabasco, Greene&rsquo;s emotional, gut response to the landscape; the sights and sounds; the oppressive heat; and the people&rsquo;s fear, despair, resignation, and fierce resilience makes for a vivid and powerful chronicle. &ldquo;[A] singularly beautiful travel book.&rdquo; &mdash;New Statesman</div>

Selected Travel Writing

<div>Short stories of suspense by the author of Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley&mdash;&ldquo;a brilliant collection&rdquo; with a foreword by Graham Greene (The Sunday Times). Master of tension Patricia Highsmith is best known for her novels of ever-increasing suspense, but she is equally adept at the short story, where &ldquo;she is after the quick kill rather than the slow encirclement of the reader.&rdquo; Eleven is Highsmith&rsquo;s first collection of short stories&mdash;dark masterpieces of obsession and foreboding, violence and instability (Graham Greene, from the foreword). In these pages, naturalists meet gruesome ends and unhinged heroes disturb our sympathies; simple cases of murder turn out to be something even more sinister, and the cruelties of childhood come to unsettling life. This is a captivating, important collection from &ldquo;one of the truly brilliant short-story writers of the twentieth century&rdquo; (Otto Penzler).</div>

Graham Greene

Books By Graham Greene (34 Books)