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 · 412,935 ratings · 33,756 reviews · 739 distinct works 鈥� Similar authors

	The Quiet American by Graham Greene, Robert Stone (Introduction) 3.97 avg rating — 68,372 ratings — published 1955 — 2 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 — 68,589 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 — 42,250 ratings — published 1940 — 416 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
	Our Man in Havana 3.94 avg rating — 39,377 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 — 34,618 ratings — published 1938 — 4 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 — 30,278 ratings — published 1948 — 53 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
	Travels with My Aunt 3.80 avg rating — 16,465 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 — 16,056 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 — 10,070 ratings — published 1978 — 33 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 — 9,776 ratings — published 1966 — 168 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

tags: happiness, pain

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November 2015 New School Classics Group Read

1982, Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally, 429 pages

25 votes, 17.7%

1988, Matilda by Roald Dahl, 240 pages

22 votes, 15.6%

1997, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, 434 pages

16 votes, 11.3%

1930, As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, 267 pages

14 votes, 9.9%

1988, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, 197 pages

13 votes, 9.2%

1987, Beloved by Toni Morrison, 324 pages

11 votes, 7.8%

1932, Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, 233 pages

8 votes, 5.7%

1957, The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino, 217 pages

7 votes, 5.0%

1989, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, 288 pages

6 votes, 4.3%

1959, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, 160 pages

4 votes, 2.8%

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

4 votes, 2.8%

1949, The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, 342 pages

3 votes, 2.1%

1932, The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth, 352 pages

3 votes, 2.1%

1928, Quicksand by Nella Larsen, 192 pages

2 votes, 1.4%

1939, Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, 243 pages

2 votes, 1.4%

1931, The Road Back by Erich Maria Remarque, 352 pages

1 vote, 0.7%

1997, Out by Natsuo Kirino, 400 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

1974, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard, 288 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

141 total votes

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