Graham Greene (Author of The Quiet American)

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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

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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 · 412,226 ratings · 33,658 reviews · 724 distinct works 鈥� Similar authors

	The Quiet American by Graham Greene, Robert Stone (Introduction) 3.97 avg rating — 68,228 ratings — published 1955 — 376 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The End of the Affair 3.90 avg rating — 68,497 ratings — published 1951 — 262 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Power and the Glory 3.98 avg rating — 42,181 ratings — published 1940	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our Man in Havana 3.94 avg rating — 39,305 ratings — published 1958 — 256 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brighton Rock 3.69 avg rating — 34,565 ratings — published 1938 — 160 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Heart of the Matter 3.97 avg rating — 30,247 ratings — published 1948	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Travels with My Aunt 3.80 avg rating — 16,432 ratings — published 1969 — 198 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Third Man 3.79 avg rating — 16,019 ratings — published 1950 — 254 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Human Factor 3.91 avg rating — 10,057 ratings — published 1978 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Comedians 3.99 avg rating — 9,763 ratings — published 1966 — 166 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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 鈥� 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 鈥� 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 2023 New School Classic Group Read

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene, 1940, 222 pages

57 votes, 21.9%

The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham, 1919, 192 pages

50 votes, 19.2%

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1924, 226 pages

47 votes, 18.1%

True Grit by Charles Portis, 1968, 224 pages

47 votes, 18.1%

White Noise by Don DeLillo, 1985, 310 pages

32 votes, 12.3%

On the Beach Nevil Shute, 1957, 296 pages

27 votes, 10.4%

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