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Graham Greene


Born
in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, The United Kingdom
October 02, 1904

Died
April 03, 1991

Genre
Fiction, Thriller, Memoir

Influences
R.B. Cunninghame Graham, Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Ev ...more


Henry Graham Greene was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century.
Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major writer, both of serious Catholic novels, and of thrillers (or "entertainments" as he termed them). He was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times. Through 67 years of writing, which included over 25 novels, he explored the conflicting moral and political issues of the modern world. The Power and the Glory won the 1941 Hawthornden Prize and The Heart of the Matter won the 1948 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Best of the James Tait Black. Greene was awarded ...more

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Average rating: 3.87 · 425,791 ratings · 35,305 reviews · 799 distinct works • Similar authors
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The End of the Affair
3.90 avg rating — 70,460 ratings — published 1951 — 3 editions
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The Power and the Glory
3.98 avg rating — 43,465 ratings — published 1940 — 11 editions
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Our Man in Havana
3.94 avg rating — 40,866 ratings — published 1958 — 259 editions
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Brighton Rock
3.69 avg rating — 35,715 ratings — published 1938 — 279 editions
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The Heart of the Matter
3.96 avg rating — 30,761 ratings — published 1948 — 272 editions
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Travels with My Aunt
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The Third Man
3.78 avg rating — 16,559 ratings — published 1950 — 6 editions
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“Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.”
― Graham Greene
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“You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
― Graham Greene, The Third Man
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“The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
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July 2016 New School Classic Group Read

1954, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, 182 pages
 
  48 votes, 21.6%

1945, Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, 351 pages
 
  28 votes, 12.6%

1951, My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier, 352 pages
 
  21 votes, 9.5%

1957, Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger, 201 pages
 
  19 votes, 8.6%

 
  19 votes, 8.6%

1997, American Pastoral by Philip Roth, 432 pages
 
  14 votes, 6.3%

1944, Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges, 174 pages
 
  13 votes, 5.9%

 
  13 votes, 5.9%

1968, The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle, 294 pages
 
  13 votes, 5.9%

1995, The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, 216 pages
 
  13 votes, 5.9%

1992, The Shipping News by Annie Proulx, 352 pages
 
  12 votes, 5.4%

1938, Brighton Rock by Graham Greene, 269 pages
 
  8 votes, 3.6%

1986, The Whirlpool by Jane Urquhart, 80 pages
 
  1 vote, 0.5%

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