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Graham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in 1940 became literary editor of the Spectator. He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991.

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'In a class by himself...the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-centuryman's consciousness and anxiety' William Golding
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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage Classics
      Published 1 November 2001
      ISBN-13 9780099286196
      978-0099286196
      ISBN-10 009928619X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Graham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in 1940 became literary editor of the Spectator. He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991.

      Trade Review
      'In a class by himself...the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-centuryman's consciousness and anxiety' William Golding
      'The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists, rich in exactly etched and moving portraits of real human beings...the tragic and comic ironies of love, loyalty and belief' -- V. S. Pritchett * The Times *
      'A superb storyteller...he had a talent for depicting local colour, a keen sense of the dramatic, and eye for dialogue, and skill in pacing his prose' * New York Times *

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