Graham Greene: a life in letters
Meticulously chosen and engagingly annotated, this selection of letters many of them seen here for the first time gives an entirely new perspective on a life that combined literary achievement, political action, espionage, exotic travel and romantic entanglement. In several letters, the individuals, events or places described provide the inspiration for characters, episodes or locations found in his later fiction. The correspondence describes his travels in Mexico, Africa, Malaya, Vietnam, Hait…
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- Full title :Graham Greene : a life in letters / edited by Richard Greene.
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Meticulously chosen and engagingly annotated, this selection of letters many of them seen here for the first time gives an entirely new perspective on a life that combined literary achievement, political action, espionage, exotic travel and romantic entanglement. In several letters, the individuals, events or places described provide the inspiration for characters, episodes or locations found in his later fiction. The correspondence describes his travels in Mexico, Africa, Malaya, Vietnam, Haiti, Cuba, Sierra Leone, Liberia and other trouble spots, where he observed the struggles of victims and victors with a compassionate and truthful eye. The volume includes a vast number of unpublished letters to authors Evelyn Waugh, Auberon Waugh, Anthony Powell, Edith Sitwell, R.K. Narayan and Muriel Spark, and to other more notorious individuals such as the double-agent Kim Philby.
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- Publication Date:c2007.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):A.A. Knopf
- Place of Publication:Toronto
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:c2007.
The Physical Object
- Description:446 p. ; : 25 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780676979749, 0676979742
- oclc:ocn132301923
- LC Classification:PR6013.R44
- Dewey Decimal:823/.912
Table of Contents
The early years -- The man within -- The power and the glory -- The heart of the matter -- The end of the affair -- A burnt-out case -- The comedians -- The honorary consul -- The human factor -- The last word.
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