Graham Greene fu un autore inglese acclamato dalla critica, noto per il suo contributo alla narrativa letteraria e ai romanzi thriller, non-fiction, racconti, poesie, opere teatrali e sceneggiature. È nato il 2 ottobre 1904 a Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, in Inghilterra, e è morto il 3 aprile 1991 a Vevey, in Svizzera. Greene è stato considerato uno dei più grandi scrittori del XX secolo, avendo guadagnato popolarità e riconoscimento letterario fin dall'inizio della sua carriera. La sua scrittura ha spesso esplorato questioni morali e politiche ambigue del mondo dell'epoca e lui era conosciuto per l'uso di temi cattolici, sebbene si sia opposto al essere definito "scrittore cattolico".
La famiglia di Greene era una famiglia numerosa e influente al suo tempo e lui è nato nella famiglia che possedeva la Greene King Brewery. Ha studiato alla Berkhamsted School, dove suo padre lavorava come insegnante e preside. La scrittura di Greene era nota per combinare il plauso letterario serio con la popolarità diffusa. Ha scritto un totale di 25 libri durante la sua carriera di 67 anni, tutti i quali hanno esplorato le questioni politiche e morali gravi del mondo da una prospettiva cattolica.
Greene è particolarmente noto per i suoi romanzi che riflettono le sue ferventi credenze cattoliche, come "The Power and the Glory" (1940). La sua scrittura è caratterizzata dall'esplorazione delle questioni morali e politiche ambigue del mondo moderno. Nonostante i temi religiosi cattolici siano alla radice di gran parte della sua scrittura, Greene si oppose fortemente a essere descritto come uno "scrittore cattolico". È noto per aver scritto quattro romanzi cattolici importanti: "Brighton Rock", "The Heart of the Matter", "The End of the Affair" ed "The Power and the Glory". Altri lavori, come "The Quiet American", "Our Man in Havana" e "The Human Factor", mostrano l'interesse appassionato di Greene per il funzionamento della politica e dell'spionaggio internazionale. Greene è stato insignito dell'Ordine al Merito e dei Compagni d'Onore per il suo contributo alla letteratura. È stato candidato al Premio Nobel per la Letteratura nel 1967.
Romanzi singoli
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Titolo
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1
The Man Within
1929
2
The Name of Action
1930
3
Rumour at Nightfall
1931
4
Orient Express / Stamboul Train
1932
5
It's a Battlefield
1934
6
England Made Me / The Shipwrecked
1935
7
A Gun for Sale / This Gun for Hire
1936
8
Brighton Rock
1938
9
The Confidential Agent
1939
10
The Power and the Glory / The Labyrinthine Ways
1940
11
The Ministry of Fear
1943
12
The Heart of the Matter
1948
13
The Third Man
1949
14
The End of the Affair
1951
15
The Quiet American
1955
16
Loser Takes All
1955
17
Our Man in Havana
1958
18
A Burnt-Out Case
1960
19
The Comedians
1966
20
Triple Pursuit!
1971
21
The Honorary Consul
1973
22
Third Man
1977
23
The Human Factor
1978
24
Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party
1980
25
Monsignor Quixote
1982
26
Getting to Know the General
1984
27
Victorian Villainies
1984
28
The Tenth Man
1985
29
The Captain and the Enemy
1988
Racconti brevi/Novelle
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Titolo
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1
The Bear Fell Free
1935
2
A Chance For Mr Lever
1936
3
A Sense of Reality
1950
4
The Destructors
1955
5
The Complaisant Lover
1961
6
Under the Garden
1963
7
The Great Jowett
1981
8
J'Accuse
1982
9
No Man's Land
2004
Raccolte di racconti
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Titolo
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1
Babbling April
1925
2
Graham Greene's Nineteen Stories
1947
3
Twenty-One Stories
1954
4
May We Borrow Your Husband? & Other Comedies of the Sexual Life
1967
5
Collected Stories
1973
6
The Portable Graham Greene
1973
7
Shades of Greene
1975
8
Across the Bridge and Other Stories
1982
9
The Collected Plays
1985
10
Complete Short Stories
1990
11
The Last Word and Other Stories
1990
12
The Third Man and Other Stories
2011
Spettacoli teatrali singoli
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Titolo
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1
Three Entertainments
1952
2
The Living Room
1954
3
The Potting Shed
1957
4
Carving a Statue
1964
5
The Return of A. J. Raffles
1975
Libri illustrati
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1
The Little Train
1946
2
Little Fire Engine
1950
3
The Little Fire Engine
1950
4
The Little Horse Bus
1952
5
The Little Steamroller
1955
Libri di non-fiction
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1
Journey Without Maps
1936
2
The Lawless Roads / Another Mexico
1939
3
British Dramatists
1942
4
The Lost Childhood and Other Essays
1951
5
In Search of a Character
1961
6
In Search of a Character: Two African Journals
1961
7
Collected Essays
1969
8
A Sort of Life
1971
9
Pleasure Dome: The Collected Film Criticism, 1935-40
1972
10
Lord Rochester's Monkey: Being the Life of John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester
1974
11
Why Do I Write?
1975
12
Why Do I Write? (With: Elizabeth Bowen, V.S. Pritchett)
1975
13
Ways of Escape
1980
14
The Other Man
1983
15
Reflections
1990
16
Fragments of Autobiography
1991
17
Yours etc.: Letters to the Press, 1945-89
1991
18
A World of My Own: A Dream Diary
1992
19
Articles of Faith: The Collected Tablet Journalism of Graham Greene
2006
Vintage Voyages Books
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Titolo
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1
Travels with My Aunt
1969
2
In Patagonia
1977
3
In Patagonia (By: Bruce Chatwin)
1977
4
The Rings of Saturn
1995
5
Shadow of the Silk Road (By: Colin Thubron)
2007
6
Shadow of the Silk Road
2007
7
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (By: Xiaolu Guo)
2007
8
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
2007
9
Blood River (By: Tim Butcher)
2007
10
Blood River
2007
The Last Interview Books
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Anno
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1
Learning To Live Finally (By: Jacques Derrida)
2005
2
Learning to Live Finally
2005
3
Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
2009
4
Roberto Bolaño (By: Roberto Bolaño)
2009
5
Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview
2011
6
Kurt Vonnegut (By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)
2011
7
Jorge Luis Borges
2012
8
Jorge Luis Borges (By: Jorge Luis Borges)
2012
9
Hannah Arendt (By: Hannah Arendt)
2013
10
Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
2013
11
James Baldwin: The Last Interview: and other Conversations
2014
12
David Foster Wallace: In His Own Words (By: David Foster Wallace)
2014
13
Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview
2014
14
James Baldwin (By: James Baldwin, Quincy Troupe)
2014
15
Ray Bradbury (By: Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller)
2014
16
Gabriel García Márquez
2015
17
Gabriel García Márquez (By: Gabriel García Márquez)
2015
18
Lou Reed
2015
19
Lou Reed (By: Lou Reed)
2015
20
Ernest Hemingway
2015
21
Nora Ephron: The Last Interview
2015
22
Ernest Hemingway (By: Ernest Hemingway)
2015
23
Philip K. Dick
2015
24
Nora Ephron (By: Nora Ephron)
2015
25
J. D. Salinger
2016
26
Philip K. Dick (By: Philip K. Dick)
2015
27
Oliver Sacks
2016
28
J. D. Salinger (By: J.D. Salinger)
2016
29
Jane Jacobs
2016
30
Oliver Sacks (By: Oliver Sacks)
2016
31
David Bowie
2016
32
Jane Jacobs (By: Jane Jacobs)
2016
33
David Bowie (By: David Bowie)
2016
34
Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
2017
35
Christopher Hitchens
2017
36
Martin Luther King, Jr. (By: Martin Luther King Jr.)
2017
37
Christopher Hitchens (By: Christopher Hitchens)
2017
38
Hunter S. Thompson
2018
39
Hunter S. Thompson (By: Hunter S. Thompson)
2018
40
Kathy Acker: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
2018
41
Kathy Acker (By: Kathy Acker)
2018
42
Julia Child: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
2018
43
Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
2019
44
Julia Child (By: Julia Child)
2018
45
Ursula K. Le Guin (By: Ursula K. Le Guin)
2019
46
Graham Greene: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
2019
47
Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
2020
48
Prince (By: Prince )
2019
49
Billie Holiday (By: Billie Holiday)
2019
50
Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
2020
51
Anthony Bourdain (By: Melville House, Helen Rosner)
2019
52
Shirley Chisholm: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
2021
53
Fred Rogers: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
2021
54
Graham Greene
2019
55
Toni Morrison (By: Toni Morrison)
2020
56
Johnny Cash: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
2021
57
Frida Kahlo (By: Frida Kahlo)
2020
58
John Lewis: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
2021
59
Marilyn Monroe (By: Melville House, Sady Doyle)
2020
60
Janet Malcolm: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
2022
61
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (By: Melville House)
2020
62
Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
2022
63
bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
2023
64
Shirley Chisholm (By: Shirley Chisholm)
2021
65
The Last Interview (By: Fred Rogers)
2021
66
Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
2023
67
Fred Rogers (By: Fred Rogers)
2021
68
Johnny Cash (By: Johnny Cash)
2021
69
John Lewis (By: Melville House)
2021
70
Janet Malcolm (By: Melville House)
2022
71
Diego Maradona ( By: Melville House)
2022
72
Kurt Cobain ( By: Melville House)
2022
73
Bell Hooks (By: bell hooks)
2023
74
Octavia E. Butler (By: Melville House)
2023
Graham Greene Anthologies
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Titolo
Anno
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1
The Spy's Bedside Book
1957
2
Contemporary British Short Stories I
1971
3
The Old School
1984
4
Child's Ploy
1984
5
The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories
1987
6
Friendship
1990
7
On Suicide: Great Writers on the Ultimate Question
1992
8
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers