A Sort of Life

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PENGUIN BOOKS A SORT OF LIFE Graham Greene was born in 1904 and educated at Berkhamsted School, where his father was the headmaster. On coming down from Balliol College, Oxford, where he published a book of verse, he worked for four years as a subeditor on The Times. He established his reputation with his fourth növel, Stamboul Train, which he classed as an 'entertainment' in order to distinguish it from more serious work.In 1935 he made a journey across Libéria described in Journey Without Maps, and on his return was appointed film critic of the Spectator. In 1926 he had been received into the Román Catholic Church and was commissioned to visit Mexico in 1938 and report on the religious persecution there. As a result he wrote The Lawless Roads and, later, The Power and the Glory. Brighton Rock was published in 1938 and in 1940 he became literary editor of the Spectator. The next year he undertook work for the Foreign Office and served out in Sierra Leone in 1941-3. One of his major... Tovább

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PENGUIN BOOKS A SORT OF LIFE Graham Greene was born in 1904 and educated at Berkhamsted School, where his father was the headmaster. On coming down from Balliol College, Oxford, where he published a book of verse, he worked for four years as a subeditor on The Times. He established his reputation with his fourth növel, Stamboul Train, which he classed as an 'entertainment' in order to distinguish it from more serious work.In 1935 he made a journey across Libéria described in Journey Without Maps, and on his return was appointed film critic of the Spectator. In 1926 he had been received into the Román Catholic Church and was commissioned to visit Mexico in 1938 and report on the religious persecution there. As a result he wrote The Lawless Roads and, later, The Power and the Glory. Brighton Rock was published in 1938 and in 1940 he became literary editor of the Spectator. The next year he undertook work for the Foreign Office and served out in Sierra Leone in 1941-3. One of his major post-war novels, The Heart of the Matter, is set in West Africa and is considered by many to be his finest book. This was followed by The End of the Affair, The Quiet American, a story set in Vietnam, Our Man in Havana, and A Burnt-Out Case. The Comedians has recently been filmed, and he has published a collection of short stories under the title, May We Borrow Your Husband? His latest publication is his autobiography, A Sort of Life {1971). In all Graham Greene has written somé thirty novels, 'entertainments', plays, children's books, travel books, and collections of essays and short stories. He was made a Companion of Honourin 1966. Vissza