Best Selling Books by Graham Greene

In the late 1930s, Graham Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico to report on how the inhabitants had reacted to the brutal anticlerical purges of President Calles. The Lawless Roads is his spellbinding record of that journey. Taking him through the tropical states of Chiapas and Tabasco, where all the churches had been destroyed or closed and the priests driven out or shot, that provided him with the setting and theme for one of his greatest novels, The Power and the Glory. This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by David Rieff. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Bertram had no belief in luck. He was not superstitious. A conspicuously unsuccessful assistant accountant, he was planning to get married for the second time. Quite quietly: St Luke''s, Maida Hill, and then two weeks in Bournemouth. But Dreuther, a director of Bertram''s firm, whimsically switches wedding and honeymoon to Monte Carlo. Inevitably Bertram visits the Casino. Inevitably he loses. Then suddenly his system starts working . . . For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

''Graham Greene has wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the top ranks of world literature'' John le Carré The Third Man, Graham Greene''s most iconic tale, takes place in post-war Vienna, a ''smashed dreary city'' occupied by the four Allied powers. Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless to visit his friend and hero, Harry Lime. But Harry has died in suspicious circumstances, and the police are closing in on his associates... The Fallen Idol is the chilling story of a small boy caught up in the games that adults play. Left in the care of the butler and his wife whilst his parents go on a fortnight''s holiday, Philip realises too late the danger of lies and deceit. But the truth is even deadlier. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IAN THOMSON

With his "sheer mastery of narrative," the British novelist takes a detour into the uncanny and wondrously absurd in these "compelling" stories ( The Guardian). An ambitious departure for an author renowned for his realism, this collection of short fiction "collectively . . . [engages] in a reconnaissance through the dustier reaches of man''s experience with [the] spectres of doubt, defeat, failure and paradox" ( Kirkus Reviews). In "Under the Garden," William Wilditch, a restless loner given to wanderlust, takes one final journey as he approaches death—back to his childhood home where he discovers that the memories of his youth are simply not to be believed. In "A Visit to Morin," 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—and for one rowdy winter night, a "Dream of a Strange Land" becomes a reality. Finally, for a group of children scouting the apocalyptic ruins at the edge of their village, "A Discovery in the Woods" 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 "a storyteller of genius" (Evelyn Waugh).

This collection of seventeen interviews covers fifty years. Here the eminent author of The Power and the Glory, The Third Man, and The Heart of the Matter speaks of himself, his life, and his works. Though reluctant to be interviewed, especially by an academic or journalist he did not know, Greene was more at ease in an interview with a personal friend, who he felt would be less likely to misunderstand or misquote him. Yet even his good friend V. S. Pritchett spent considerable time trying to pin him down for his 1978 interview. When he finally did arrange an interview, Pritchett tells that Greene''s "flat conspiratorial, laughing voice . . ., of itself, makes him the best company I''ve known in the last forty years". Other interviewers--included here are V. S. Naipaul and Penelope Gilliatt--shared Pritchett''s opinion, but many found that he avoided idle conversation for fear that his words would be misconstrued. Greene''s anxiety was not without foundation. In an interview with Michael Menshaw, Greene explained: "It''s got so I hate to say who I am or what I believe...A few years ago I told an interviewer I''m a gnostic. The next day''s newspaper announced that I had become an agnostic". After such incidents, Greene turned to the anecdote--relating an experience with Fidel Castro or with Papa Doc Duvalier--to communicate in interviews with strangers. Nevertheless, in all the interviews Greene granted over the years, the reader hears very clearly the voice of a man whose conversation is as painfully honest and unpretentious as is his written prose. The interviews here are divided chronologically into four periods, loosely related to his subject matter or to his reputation at the time of theinterview. Thus the reader sees the development of the writer from a callow but gifted young man into one of the foremost men of letters in the English-speaking world.

Henry Miles, a civil servant, suspects that his wife Sarah is having an affair, and asks his writer friend Maurice Bendrix to contact a private investigator on his behalf. Maurice has a secret, however: he was once Sarah''s lover, and is equally keen to find out whether she was unfaithful to him too... An economical and intense adaptation.-1 woman, 4 men, 1 boy, 5 women or men

This autobiographical essay is a sequel to "A Sort of Life". It describes the conception, the writing and the publishing of each of Greene''s books - interspersed with accounts of his travels in Kenya and Vietnam, and the portraits of a few of his closest friends.

Victor Baxter is a young boy when a secretive stranger known simply as “the Captain” takes him from his boarding school to live in London. Victor becomes the surrogate son and companion of a woman named Liza, who renames him “Jim” and depends on him for any news about the world outside their door. Raised in these odd yet touching circumstances, Jim is never quite sure of Liza’s relationship to the Captain, who is often away on mysterious errands. It is not until Jim reaches manhood that he confronts the Captain and learns the shocking truth about the man, his allegiances, and the nature of love. This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by John Auchard. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Murder story involving Stockholm financier, and a brother and a sister.

Doctor Fischer despises the human race. When the notorious toothpaste millionaire decides to hold the last of his famous parties his own deadly version of the Book of Revelations Greene opens up a powerful vision of the limitless greed of the rich. Bl

"A Catholic tours Mexico and finds little to his liking, and plenty to condemn. The anti-Catholic movements have prejudiced him in advance, and he travels down from Texas, with a chip on his shoulder, looking for things to criticize. He succeeds in getting plenty to feed his distaste and he pours it all forth in this volume, -- places, people, travel accommodation, scenery, food, lodgings -- he was acutely miserable throughout. Stringent antidote to usual enthusiasm for Mexico and things Mexican. Particular market -- the Catholics who want food for their wrath."--Kirkus

Graham Greene (1904-1991) n''est pas seulement le grand écrivain catholique consacré par le succès de son fameux roman La Puissance et la gloire. Entré par effraction dans le royaume de la Grâce (selon le mot de François Mauriac), cet ancien membre du Foreign Office a su, même au travers des divertissements que sont des livres comme Notre agent à La Havane et Un Américain bien tranquille, dénoncer la guerre, les dictatures et ce vice suprême : l''imbécillité. Voilà pourquoi Graham Greene compte, avec George Orwell et Evelyn Waugh, parmi les géants de la littérature anglaise du XXe siècle.

In a West African colony an English assistant police commissioner becomes the victim of a blackmailer.