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Graham Greene


Graham Greene was born in 1904. While at Balliol College, Oxford, he published his first book of verse. He continues to write throughout his lifetime, and is the author of The Third Man, Our Man in Havana, The Quiet American, and The End of the Affair, in addition to many other novels, short story collections, plays, essays, travel books, and film scripts. During World War II he served with the British Secret Intelligence Service. He died in 1991.

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Brighton Rock
Written by Graham Greene

Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage Classics | Fiction
978-0-09-954168-4 (0-09-954168-8)

January 25, 2011 | $21.95



With a new introduction by J.M. Coetzee

A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous Ida Arnold, who is determined to avenge a death.

Also available as a trade paperback.

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The Spy's Bedside Book
Edited by Hugh Greene and Graham Greene

Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Arrow | Fiction - Espionage
978-0-09-951960-7 (0-09-951960-7)

November 4, 2008 | $23.95



A classic compendium of espionage stories penned by some of the greatest writers and most famous spies. With a new introduction by Stella Rimington, former head of MI5.

The foxhunter, the angler, the cricketer — each has had his own bedside book. Why not the spy? First published in 1957, The Spy’s...


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Rabbit Ears Treasury of Holiday Stories: Volume One
Written by Rabbit Ears
Read by Graham Greene and Glenn Close

Unabridged Compact Disc | pages | Listening Library (Audio) | Juvenile Fiction
978-0-7393-5602-9 (0-7393-5602-X)

August 14, 2007 | $14.95

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Rabbit Ears Treasury of Holiday Stories: Volume One
Written by Rabbit Ears, Read by Graham Greene and Glenn Close

Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
ISBN: 9780739356029
Our Price: $14.95
   Quantity: 1 


Rabbit Ears Treasury of Holiday Stories: Volume 1 enlivens and entertains with these classic holiday stories read by your favorite stars and featuring original music by some of today’s greatest artists.

Squanto and the First Thanksgiving
Read by Graham Greene
Original Music by Paul McCandless

Here is the touching true story of a Native American...


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The Comedians
Written by Graham Greene

Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Vintage Classics | Fiction
978-0-09-947837-9 (0-09-947837-4)

September 21, 2005 | $23.95



The centenary edition with a new introduction by Paul Theroux: three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti. Hiding behind their actors’ masks, they hesitate on the edge of life — afraid of love, afraid of pain, afraid of fear itself.


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Stamboul Train
Written by Graham Greene

Trade Paperback | 214 pages | Vintage Classics | Fiction
978-0-09-947836-2 (0-09-947836-6)

May 16, 2005 | $21.95



Centenary edition with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens: a gripping spy thriller, which unfolds aboard the majestic Orient Express as it crosses Europe from Ostend to Constantinople, weaving a web of subterfuge, murder, politics and passion along the way.


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The Honorary Consul
Written by Graham Greene

Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage Classics | Fiction
978-0-09-947838-6 (0-09-947838-2)

November 9, 2004 | $21.95



The gripping tragicomedy of a bungled kidnapping in a provincial Argentinian town is considered one of Greene’s finest. It tells of Charley Fortnum, the “Honorary Consul,” a whisky-sodden figure of dubious authority taken by a group of revolutionaries. As Eduardo Plarr, a local doctor, negotiates with authorities and the revolutionaries for...


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Brighton Rock
Written by Graham Greene

Trade Paperback | 282 pages | Vintage Classics | Fiction
978-0-09-947847-8 (0-09-947847-1)

November 2, 2004 | $21.95



With a new introduction by J.M. Coetzee

A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous Ida Arnold, who is determined to avenge a death.

Also available as a trade paperback.

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A Burnt-Out Case
Written by Graham Greene

Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Vintage Classics | Fiction
978-0-09-947843-0 (0-09-947843-9)

November 2, 2004 | $21.95



With a new introduction by Giles Foden

When Querry, a famous architect, no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life, he goes to work at a Congo leper village where, as he loses himself in work for the lepers, his disease of mind slowly approaches a cure. Then the white...


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The End of the Affair
Written by Graham Greene

Trade Paperback | 192 pages | Vintage Classics | Fiction
978-0-09-947844-7 (0-09-947844-7)

November 2, 2004 | $21.95



With a new introduction by Monica Ali

The love affair between Maurice Bendix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. Two years later, after a chance meeting, Bendix hires a private detective to follow Sarah, and slowly his...


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The Heart of the Matter
Written by Graham Greene

Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage Classics | Fiction
978-0-09-947842-3 (0-09-947842-0)

November 2, 2004 | $21.95



With a new introduction by James Wood

Scobie, a police officer serving in a wartime west-African state, is distrusted — being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in so doing, he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.


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The Quiet American
Written by Graham Greene

Trade Paperback | 192 pages | Vintage Classics | Fiction
978-0-09-947839-3 (0-09-947839-0)

November 2, 2004 | $21.95



With a new introduction by Zadie Smith

Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious “Third Force.” As his naïve optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch...


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My Silent War
Written by Kim Philby
Foreword by Graham Greene
Introduction by Phillip Knightley

Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Modern Library | Biography & Autobiography; True Crime - Espionage
978-0-375-75983-3 (0-375-75983-2)

September 24, 2002 | $18.95

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My Silent War
Written by Kim Philby, Foreword by Graham Greene, Introduction by Phillip Knightley

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780375759833
Our Price: $18.95
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In the annals of espionage, one name towers above all others: that of H.A.R. “Kim” Philby, the ringleader of the legendary Cambridge spies. A member of the British establishment, Philby joined the Secret Intelligence Service in 1940, rose to the head of Soviet counterintelligence, and, as MI6’s liaison with the CIA...


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Journey Without Maps
Written by Graham Greene

Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage Classics | Travel - Essays & Travelogues
978-0-09-928223-5 (0-09-928223-2)

April 23, 2002 | $21.95



Graham Greene set off to discover Liberia, a remote west African republic founded for released slaves. Crossing the red-clay terrain from Sierra Leone to the coast of Grand Bassa with a chain of porters, he came to know one of the few areas of Africa untouched by colonization. He found that...


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The Lawless Roads
Written by Graham Greene

Trade Paperback | pages | Vintage Classics | Travel
978-0-09-928624-0 (0-09-928624-6)

April 23, 2002 | $21.95



In 1938 Graham Greene went to Mexico to investigate the aftermath of the brutal anti-clerical purges. Travelling through the tropical states of Chiapas and Tabasco, where all the churches had been closed or destroyed and the priests driven away or shot, he found an oppressed and impoverished people having to worship...


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The Confidential Agent
Written by Graham Greene

Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Vintage Classics | Fiction
978-0-09-928619-6 (0-09-928619-X)

January 22, 2002 | $21.95



In a small continental country civil war is raging. Once a lecturer in medieval French, now a confidential agent, D is a scarred stranger in a seemingly casual England, sent on a mission to buy coal. Initially, this seems to be a matter of straightforward negotiation, but soon, implicated in murder...


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