Graham Greene

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
# Titolo Anno
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
# Titolo Anno
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
# Titolo Anno
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
# Titolo Anno
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
# Titolo Anno
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
# Titolo Anno
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
# Titolo Anno
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
# Titolo Anno
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
# Titolo Anno
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 1994
9 The Killing Spirit 1996
10 Crime Never Pays 2001
11 Escape to Mexico: An Anthology of Great Writers 2002
12 London Stories 2013
13 Writers: Their Lives and Works 2018