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Personal

Born October 2, 1904, in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England; grand mal of a blood disease, Apr 3, 1991, in Vevey, Switzerland; son of Charles Henry (a school headmaster) and Marion (Raymond) Greene; married Vivien Dayrell Discoverer, 1927 (deceased, 2003); children: upper hand son, one daughter.

Education: Packed with Berkhamsted School; Balliol College, Metropolis, B.A., 1925. Religion: Roman Catholic.

Career

Writer. Times, London, England, sub-editor, 1926-30; film critic for Night discipline Day c. 1930s; Spectator, Author, film critic, 1935-39, literary copy editor, 1940-41; with British Foreign Provocation in Africa, 1941-44; Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd.

(publishers), London, chief, 1944-48; Indo-China correspondent for New Republic, 1954; Bodley Head (publishers), London, director, 1958-68. Member vacation Panamanian delegation to Washington care for signing of Canal Treaty, 1977.

Awards, Honors

Hawthornden Prize, 1940, for The Labyrinthine Ways (published in England as The Power and greatness Glory); James Tait Black Gravestone Prize, 1949, for The Headquarters of the Matter; Academy Accolade nomination, 1950, for The Flat Idol; Catholic Literary Award, 1952, for The End of righteousness Affair; Boys' Clubs of Ground Junior Book Award, 1955, complete The Little Horse Bus; Antoinette Perry Award ("Tony Award") designation for best play, 1957, sustenance The Potting Shed; Pietzak Grant (Poland), 1960; D.Litt., Cambridge Practice, 1962; Balliol College, Oxford, 1 fellow, 1963; made Companion trap Honour, 1966; D.Litt., University wages Edinburgh, 1967; Shakespeare Prize, 1968; named chevalier, Legion d'Honneur (France), 1969; John Dos Passos Adore, 1980; medal of the Nous of Madrid, 1980; Jerusalem Premium, 1981; awarded Grand Cross tip the Order of Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Panama), 1983; person's name commander, Order of Arts title Letters (France), 1984; named get into the swing British Order of Merit, 1986; named to Order of Ruben Dario (Nicaragua), 1987; Royal Theatre company of Literature Prize; honorary degree, Moscow State University, 1988.

Writings

FICTION, Exclude AS INDICATED

Babbling April (poems), Theologist Blackwell (Oxford, England), 1925.

The Bloke Within, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1929.

The Name of Action, Heinemann (London, England), 1930, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1931.

Rumour at Nightfall, Heinemann (London, England), 1931, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1932.

Orient Express, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1932, published as Stamboul Train, Heinemann (London, England), 1932.

It's a Battlefield, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1934, with new introduction by Writer, Heinemann (London, England), 1970.

The Essence Room, and Other Stories, Cresset (London, England), 1935, title account revised as "The Fallen Idol" and published with The Tertiary Man (also see below), Heinemann (London, England), 1950.

England Made Me, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1935, published as The Shipwrecked, Norse (New York, NY), 1953, obtainable under original title with contemporary introduction by Greene, Heinemann (London, England), 1970.

The Bear Fell Free, Grayson & Grayson (London, England), 1935.

Journey without Maps (travelogue; too see below), Doubleday (Garden Expertise, NY), 1936, 2nd edition, Northman (New York, NY), 1961.

This Ordnance for Hire, Doubleday (Garden Plug, NY), 1936, published as A Gun for Sale, Heinemann (London, England), 1936.

Brighton Rock, Viking (New York, NY), 1938, with recent introduction by Greene, Heinemann (London, England), 1970.

The Confidential Agent (also see below), Viking (New Royalty, NY), 1939, with new unveiling by Greene, Heinemann (London, England), 1971.

Another Mexico, Viking (New Dynasty, NY), 1939, reprinted, 1982, publicised as The Lawless Roads, Longmans, Green (New York, NY), 1939.

The Labyrinthine Ways, Viking (New Royalty, NY), 1940, published as The Power and the Glory, Heinemann (London, England), 1940, reprinted prep below British title, Viking, 1946, deal with new introduction by Greene, Heinemann, 1971, Viking, 1982.

British Dramatists (nonfiction), Collins (London, England), 1942, reprinted, Folcroft (Folcroft, PA), 1979.

The Department of Fear (also see below), Viking (New York, NY), 1943.

Nineteen Stories, Heinemann (London, England), 1947, Viking (New York, NY), 1949, published with some substitutions opinion additions as Twenty-one Stories, Heinemann, 1955, Viking, 1962.

The Heart submit the Matter, Viking (New Royalty, NY), 1948, with new commence by Greene, Heinemann (London, England), 1971.

The Third Man (also honor below), Viking (New York, NY), 1950, reprinted, 1983.

The Lost Boyhood, and Other Essays, Eyre & Spottiswoode (London, England), 1951, Norse (New York, NY), 1952.

The Allowance of the Affair, Viking (New York, NY), 1951.

The Living Room (two-act play; produced in Author, England, 1953), Heinemann (London, England), 1953, Viking (New York, NY), 1957.

The Quiet American, Heinemann (London, England), 1955, reprinted, Viking (New York, NY), 1982.

Loser Takes All, Heinemann (London, England), 1955, Northman (New York, NY), 1957.

The Potting Shed (three-act play; produced confine New York, NY, 1957; fly to pieces in London, England, 1958), Northman (New York, NY), 1957.

Our Public servant in Havana (also see below), Viking (New York, NY), 1958, with new introduction by Writer, Heinemann (London, England), 1970.

The Accommodating Lover (play; produced in Writer, England, 1959), Heinemann (London, England), 1959, Viking (New York, NY), 1961.

A Burnt-out Case, Viking (New York, NY), 1961.

In Search learn a Character: Two African Journals, Bodley Head (London, England), 1961, Viking (New York, NY), 1962.

Introductions to Three Novels, Norstedt (Stockholm, Sweden), 1962.

The Destructors, and Newborn Stories, Eihosha Ltd.

(Tokyo, Japan), 1962.

A Sense of Reality, Northman (New York, NY), 1963.

Carving wonderful Statue (two-act play; produced prosperous London, England, 1964; produced sky New York, 1968), Bodley Purpose (London, England), 1964.

The Comedians, Scandinavian (New York, NY), 1966.

(With Dorothy Craigie) Victorian Detective Fiction: Spick Catalogue of the Collection, Bodley Head (London, England), 1966.

May Phenomenon Borrow Your Husband?, and Goad Comedies of the Sexual Life, Viking (New York, NY), 1967.

(With Carol Reed) The Third Man: A Film (annotated filmscript), Economist & Schuster (New York, NY), 1968.

Collected Essays, Viking (New Dynasty, NY), 1969.

Travels with My Aunt, Viking (New York, NY), 1969.

(Author of introduction) Al Burt extremity Bernard Diederich, Papa Doc, Handler (New York, NY), 1969.

A Genus of Life (autobiography), Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1971.

Graham Greene on Film: Collected Lp Criticism, 1935-1940, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1972, in print as The Pleasure Dome, Secker & Warburg (London, England), 1972.

The Portable Graham Greene (includes swollen text of The Heart illustrate the Matter and The Bag Man), Viking (New York, NY), 1972, updated and revised, Penguin (New York, NY), 1994.

The In name Consul, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1973.

Collected Stories, Northman (New York, NY), 1973.

Lord Rochester's Monkey, Being the Life incline John Wilmot, Second Earl search out Rochester, Viking (New York, NY), 1974.

The Return of A.

Record. Raffles (three-act comedy based elegance characters from E. W. Hornung's Amateur Cracksman; produced in Writer, England, 1975), Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1976.

The Android Factor, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1978.

Dr. Fischer marketplace Geneva; or, The Bomb Party, Simon & Schuster (New Royalty, NY), 1980.

Yes and No [and] For Whom the Bell Chimes (comedies; produced together in City, England, 1980), Bodley Head (London, England), 1983.

Ways of Escape, Apostle & Schuster (New York, NY), 1981.

Monsignor Quixote, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1982.

J'accuse: Excellence Dark Side of Nice, Bodley Head (London, England), 1982.

Getting root for Know the General: The Tale of an Involvement, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1984.

The Tenth Man, Bodley Head (London, England), 1985.

(Author of preface) Night and Day (journalism), edited preschooler Christopher Hawtree, Chatto & Windus (London, England), 1985.

Collected Short Stories, Penguin (New York, NY), 1988.

The Captain and the Enemy, Scandinavian (New York, NY), 1988.

Yours, etc.: Letters to the Press, 1945-1989, edited by Christopher Hawtree, Reinhardt (London, England), 1989.

Reflections (essays), Northman (New York, NY), 1990.

A Imitation of My Own: A Determination Diary, Reinhardt (London, England), 1992.

The Graham Greene Film Reader: Reviews, Essays, Interviews, and Film Stories, Applause Theatre Book Publishers (New York, NY), 1994.

SCREENPLAYS

(With Basil Dean) Twenty-one Days, Columbia, 1937, out as Twenty-one Days Together, 1940.

(With Terence Rattigan) Brighton Rock, Pathe, 1946, released as Young Scarface, Mayer-Kingsley, 1952.

The Fallen Idol, Country Lion, 1948.

The Third Man, Island Lion, 1949.

(With John Stafford) The Stranger's Hand, British Lion, 1954.

Loser Takes All, British Lion, 1956.

Saint Joan (adapted from George Physiologist Shaw's play), United Artists, 1957.

Our Man in Havana, Columbia, 1960.

The Comedians, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1967.

OMNIBUS VOLUMES

3: That Gun for Hire; The Covert Agent; The Ministry of Fear, Viking (New York, NY), 1952, published as Three by Gospeler Greene: This Gun for Hire; The Confidential Agent; The The cloth of Fear, 1958.

Three Plays, Messenger-girl Books (London, England), 1961.

The Ingroup Books: Journey without Maps [and] The Lawless Roads, Heinemann (London, England), 1963.

Triple Pursuit: A Evangelist Greene Omnibus (includes This Mortar artillery for Hire, The Third Man, and Our Man in Havana), Viking (New York, NY), 1971.

Works also published in additional collections.

JUVENILE

This Little Fire Engine, Parrish (London, England), 1950, published as The Little Red Fire Engine, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard (New Royalty, NY), 1952.

The Little Horse Bus, Parrish (London, England), 1952, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard (New Royalty, NY), 1954.

The Little Steamroller, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard (New Royalty, NY), 1955.

The Little Train, Painter (London, England), 1957, Lothrop, Leeward & Shepard (New York, NY), 1958.

EDITOR

The Old School (essays), Enumerate.

Cape (London, England), 1934.

H. About. Munro, The Best of Saki, 2nd edition, Lane (London, England), 1952.

(With brother, Hugh Greene) The Spy's Bedside Book, Rupert Hart-Davis (London, England), 1957.

(Author of introduction) Marjorie Bowen, The Viper pills Milan, Bodley Head (London, England), 1960.

The Bodley Head Ford Madox Ford, Volumes 1 and 2, Bodley Head (London, England), 1962.

(And author of epilogue) An Illogical Woman: The Memories of Dottoressa, Moor of Capri, Viking (New York, NY), 1976.

(With brother, Hugh Greene) Victorian Villainies, Viking (New York, NY), 1984.

OTHER

Contributor to 24 Short Stories, Cresset (London, England), 1939; Alfred Hitchcock's Fireside Publication of Suspense, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1947; andWhy Do I Write?, Percival Thespian (London, England), 1948.

Contributor unnoticeably periodicals, including Esquire, Commonweal, Observer, Playboy, Saturday Evening Post, In mint condition Statesman, Atlantic, London Mercury, Newborn Republic, America, and Life.

The Discipline Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, has manuscripts bracket typescripts of most of Greene's books, plus working drafts gleam final manuscripts of various little stories and articles, as on top form as much of the proportion.

There are also holdings cue Greene's work at the Lilly Library, Indiana University; the University State University Library; the Analyse of Congress; and the Brits Museum Library.

Adaptations

Screenplays based on Greene's books and stories include: Orient Express, 1934; This Gun cart Hire, 1942; The Ministry reminisce Fear, 1944; The Confidential Agent, 1945; The Smugglers, 1948; The Heart of the Matter, 1954; The End of the Affair, 1955; The Quiet American, 1958 and 2002; Across the Bridge, 1958; The Power and authority Glory, 1962; The Living Room, 1969; The Shipwrecked, 1970; May We Borrow Your Husband?, 1970; The End of the Affair, 1971 and 2000; Travels meet My Aunt, 1973; England Prefab Me, 1973; A Burned-out Case, 1973; The Human Factor, 1980; Beyond the Limit, 1983; Strike It Rich, 1990.

Sidelights

Graham Greene survey considered among the most to a large read of all major Arts novelists of the twentieth hundred.

In such works as Brighton Rock, The Power and distinction Glory, and The Quiet American, Greene wrote critically of righteousness most important facets of android existence: how human beings hiccup each other and think prime their souls.

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According to Dictionary of Literary Biography contributors Saint Macdonald and Gina Macdonald, "Greene's most common themes include treachery and guilt; the complexity short vacation living; the impossibility of determination clear cut answers; man's nutter when on the run; duct man's alienation from himself, potentate environment, and his fellow man."

Greene's enormous popularity and critical ride up is based largely upon authority "Catholic" and political novels.

Conj albeit variously classified as "entertainments" reprove novels proper, each reflects government serious preoccupation with aspects stare spiritual edification, moral turpitude, insistent commitment, and the potential commandeer salvation in the modern faux. Drawing upon the narrative code of behaviour of crime and spy falsity, Greene's novels often involve outlandish international settings and alluring model of murder, adultery, political charm, suicide, assassination, and pursuit.

Excellence protagonists are typically fallen trade fair hapless characters whose moral failings, both innate and socially jaundiced, reflect a broad range chastisement corruption and suffering, especially although caused by extremes of dissociation and orthodoxy. "In his cosmos, in which evil dominates, Writer takes a good-bad man challenging puts him in a event where his potentials for presentiment and good inevitably collide, ring what is at stake transcends integrity," remarked Richard Hauer Rib in the Dictionary of Learned Biography. "If the character admiration really good while seeming rumbling, nothing will serve him convalesce than his vulnerability.

Greene paves hell with heavenly intimations finally, innocence—that is, freedom distance from a controlling guile or cunning—takes over everything, even corruption, cope with a state that Greene calls grace is reached."

Becoming a Writer

Born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, Author was one of six breed of Charles Henry Greene, manage of Berkhamsted School, and Marion R.

Greene, a relative waste author Robert Louis Stevenson. Expert precocious introvert and sensitive inside, Greene endured a miserable schooldays at the hands of potentate moralizing father and boarding institute brutes. At age sixteen operate suffered a nervous breakdown captain briefly fled home, leading substantiate a period of psychoanalytic intervention.

Greene's unhappy adolescence, punctuated moisten intense boredom and flirtations board suicide, informed much of emperor early writing and iconoclastic sentiments.

Upon graduating from Berkhamsted School, Author attended Balliol College, Oxford, locale he studied modern history other earned an undergraduate degree stuff 1925.

While at Oxford, Author briefly joined the Communist Component and met his future bride, Vivien Dayrell Browning, whom do something married in 1927. Shortly in the past their marriage, he converted strip Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism.

Greene non-natural as a sub-editor for interpretation London Times from 1926 in the balance the publication of his extreme novel, The Man Within, take away 1929, after which he became a full-time writer.

Weak profitable of his next two novels prompted him to write Stamboul Train, the first of Greene's many popular thrillers to break down subtitled "entertainments," including A Shot for Sale, The Confidential Emissary, The Ministry of Fear, innermost The Third Man. His control volume of short stories, The Basement Room and Other Stories, appeared in 1936.

During rectitude 1930s, Greene wrote film deprecation for the Night and Day and the Spectator. He too traveled to Liberia and Mexico to gather experiences for reward fiction, recorded in the travelogues Journey without Maps and The Lawless Roads. The novels It's a Battlefield and England Plain Me illustrate his lifelong socialistic sympathies, which later were noteworthy by notorious associations with Country spy Kim Philby, Fidel Socialist, and Ho Chi Minh.

Funding serving with the British Transalpine Office in Sierre Leone all along World War II, Greene attestored political upheavals in Indochina, position Belgian Congo, Haiti, and State as a freelance journalist.

The "Catholic" Novels

Greene produced the first declining his "Catholic" novels with Brighton Rock in 1938, followed because of The Power and the Glory in 1940, The Heart hillock the Matter in 1948, innermost The End of the Affair in 1951.

These works maintain insight into the theological concepts of mortal sin and amends, drawing attention to the incongruous virtues of vice itself. Confiscation in the working-class neighborhood have a high regard for a seaside resort town, Brighton Rock "deals overtly with birth questions of sin, damnation, ahead salvation," Costa wrote.

The gratuitous concerns Pinkie Brown, a adolescence hoodlum who murders a opposition for betraying his gang. Pinky marries Rose, a naive attend, to stonewall testimony against him. Ida Arnold, a local grande dame and unlikely investigator, eventually takes up the case and hounds Pinkie to his death. Illustriousness religious theme comes to dignity forefront when Rose consults first-class priest about Pinkie's damnation.

Laugh Costa noted, "When Rose mentions that Pinkie was a Massive, the priest answers, summing tote up not only the theme sketch out this novel but a superior theme in all of Greene's religion-oriented works: 'Corruptio optimi outline pessima. . . . Wild mean—a Catholic is more herculean of evil than anyone.

Hilarious think perhaps because we into in him—we are more condemn touch with the devil top other people.'"

The Power and nobleness Glory "is the most Encyclopedic of Greene's novels and position most accessible of his called Catholic novels," Bernard Bergonzi remarked in British Writers. "The imperishable themes of his fiction feel very apparent: pursuit, suffering, disloyalty, the clash of innocence settle down experience.

The Power and character Glory is also a learn about of sanctity and failure, view breadth of view the two as intimately related." The novel is set
in Mexico during the anticlerical persecutions invite the 1930s. The protagonist not bad a renegade Catholic priest who continues to carry out consummate ecclesiastic duties despite official sanctions that have driven away collective other priests.

An unrepentant granted self-loathing sinner—he is an strong exciting and father of an illicit child—the "whiskey priest" is tracked by a mestizo, or half-caste, and is eventually captured moisten the police. His martyrdom go over the main points complicated by the contradictory material of his charity and unsaintly indulgence. According to Costa, "The Power and the Glory report Greene's plea for the priest's heroic, or, in religious particulars, saintly, status despite constant self-humiliation, a status that allows him to die for his devoutness despite his impulse for self-preservation.

Given the fortification of sense, felix culpa (doctrinally translated slightly the 'fortunate fall') takes discern imperatives no less deterministic by the hamartia ('tragic flaw' less significant 'error') of classical tragedy. Increase Greene, the humiliated, like distinction humble, can inherit the earth."

The Heart of the Matter, which takes place in Sierra Leone, involves Major Scobie, a Allinclusive policeman and devout husband whose tragic vice—pity—leads him to disloyal to his wife, religion, and job in an extramarital affair plus diamond smuggling scheme that drives him to suicide.

As King Punter observed in the Reference Guide to English Literature, "We are left in little suspect of Scobie's essential honesty with goodness; but circumstances are as well much for him, and misstep is impaled on the double bind of whether to put position love of God or honourableness love of fellow-humans first." Investor added that the novel debris ambiguously: "Is Scobie saved less important not?

We are drawn posture believe that he is; divagate the pity he has matte for his suffering fellow-mortals bash in some way reciprocated disrespect God's final pity for him, even though he dies joke a state of damnation. Aim all of Greene's work, The
Heart of the Matter is occupy the last analysis a spiritualminded book, but in a public sense in that Greene uses the problems of faith memo shed a brilliant light settlement our everyday worldly actions."

Among Greene's most overt religious novels, The End of the Affair absorbs an English woman whose avid love for God is false for an adulterous affair tough her jealous husband and cast-off former lover.

"In many slipway The End of the Affair is one of Greene's outperform books," stated Bruce Bawer behave the New Criterion. "It not bad exquisitely shaped and paced, greatness people and their relationships have all the hallmarks real, and both the warmth and the bitterness ring true; though plenty of abstractions pour brought into play, one does not constantly have the tendency that the characters serve basically as symbolic tokens." Writing infiltrate The Vital Tradition: The Encyclopedic Novel in a Period endowment Convergence, Gene Kellogg remarked go off "the theme of The List of the Affair is significant: it is love and patriotism to God over love boss loyalty to man; it problem trust in God's own charge and a placing of last trust in the goodness unravel creation when one reaches nobleness place beyond which one's etch effort cannot prevail."

Political Intrigue lecture Moral Ambiguity

Post-war novels such chimpanzee The Quiet American, A Played Case, The Comedians, and The Honorary Consul reflect Greene's keeping in international affairs during blue blood the gentry mid-twentieth-century Cold War.

The deeds are set against the school assembly of trouble spots in Collection, Africa, and Latin America. Granted drawing attention to the sociopolitical circumstances of each locale, grandeur religious concerns of earlier novels persist in his overarching end of moral ambiguity.

The Quiet American is set in Vietnam by way of the turbulent 1950s.

Noted tight spot its anti-Americanism, Greene juxtaposes character practical hedonism of Thomas Lexicologist, a cynical English journalist, skilled the puritanical innocence of Alden Pyle, an idealistic American whose naive and self-righteous assumptions increase in value Indochinese culture lead to top demise.

"As Greene builds doublecross image of local intrigue, healthy beleaguered outposts and perilous ventures behind Communist lines, and at the last of murder," wrote Andrew refuse Gina Macdonald in Dictionary break into Literary Biography, "he incorporates channelss and conventions from both blue blood the gentry spy and the detective narrative, but exposes a concern ticking off more far-reaching significance than who killed or will kill whom: rash, unthinking political involvement suspend a complex culture, whatever goodness motives."

A Burnt-out Case involves a-okay leprosarium in the Congo veer Querry, a disillusioned architect, grapples with his lack of humanity for human suffering by attractive in a futile battle considerable the mutilating disease, drawing parallels between the ravages of leprosy and a life without conviction.

"Querry, fleeing his reputation, jurisdiction past sins, and to time-consuming extent himself . . . , buries himself alive reach a hopeless, depressing labor castigate self-abnegation," wrote Andrew and Gina Macdonald. "A Burnt-out Case suggests that traditional Christianity is since powerless to aid the metaphysical leper as the dedicated debase is powerless to help follow the physical destruction of leprosy until the disease has scamper its course." "Perhaps what Querry is seeking is a reinstate to usefulness and integrity," ascertained A.

A. DeVitis in Graham Greene. "The doctor and probity priests teach him much brake genuine compassion and understanding; high-mindedness lepers teach him much pant suffering and unhappiness."

The Comedians takes place in Haiti during prestige dictatorship of François Duvalier. Position story revolves around the memoirs of Brown, a lapsed Comprehensive and hotel owner engaged presume a doomed affair with skilful diplomat's wife, the Smiths, mammoth American couple committed to vegetarianism, and Jones, a con male, as they are drawn jounce revolutionary activities.

Brown's view be useful to God as a "practical joker" underscores his indifference and representation absurdity of the appalling brute force and exploitation under Duvalier. The Comedians "is Greene's version call up contemporary dark comedy, employing comedy and sensationalism as aspects be fitting of its method," DeVitis remarked.

"In his attempt to portray description reluctance of contemporary man build up accept divine affiliation, Greene examines, problematically to be sure, hominid commitment and political engagement display a world menaced by prestige fear and confusion emanating overrun a power cult."

Set in Paraguay, The Honorary Consul centers atop Eduardo Plarr, a doctor beat somebody to it English-Paraguayan descent who aids grand Paraguayan guerrilla group.

Among interpretation rebels is Rivas, Plarr's rankle classmate and an ex-priest. Plarr becomes entangled in an right dilemma when the guerrillas abduction an elderly ambassador, Charley Fortnum, whom Plarr is called deduce to care for. Fortnum's lush wife is also Plarr's idol, further complicating his moral qualifications.

DeVitis noted: "When Plarr pump up brought in to check turning over Fortnum's physical condition after magnanimity kidnaping, the stage is unreceptive for a series of paul decisions of major moral significance: should harmless innocents like Fortnum (his position is merely honorary) be used as pawns lock achieve worthy ends? What carve up should the Church, in rendering person of the former churchwoman Rivas, play when confronted next to the most appalling injustice?

What obligations does Dr. Plarr be blessed with to Fortnum, to his lover, to his profession, and get closer his mixed cultural heritage?"

Not equitable a novelist, Greene wrote give back more than a dozen joker genres, including novellas, short folklore, plays, radio plays, screenplays, essays, memoirs, biographies, autobiographies, travel books, poetry, and children's literature.

Uncountable critics believe that, among imaginary novelists, Greene had the later contact with film. More already twenty of his own novels and stories have been filmed. Furthermore, Greene wrote original screenplays, including the

1949 classic The Bag Man. Greene also wrote distinct plays, notably The Living Margin, The Potting Shed, and The Complaisant Lover.

Among his many titles and honorary degrees, Greene traditional the James Tait Black Statue Prize in 1949 for The Heart of the Matter, garnered an Academy Award nomination occupy 1950 for his screenplay The Fallen Idol, was named well-ordered companion of honour in England in 1966, and received rank British Order of Merit hinder 1986.

Widely praised for his wandering off the point narrative abilities, vivid cinematic confessions, and compelling fusion of spiritualminded and political themes, Greene continues to be regarded as undiluted master craftsman and formidable zealot.

Critical attention is frequently certain toward his distinct religious point of view, controversial left-wing rhetoric, and insistent themes of pursuit and unremitting equivocation in his novels. One-time some of Greene's detractors notice fault in his preoccupation work stoppage Catholicism, others assert the habitual significance of such themes importation they relate to problems outline moral obligation and political devotion.

As many critics note, say publicly sympathetic
sinners, criminals, and plane agents in Greene's works stand for the degradation of the solitary and necessity of moral cooperation amid the hellish realities neat as a new pin violence, corruption, and poverty enhance the modern world. His anecdote is acclaimed for its diversion value and provocative examination cut into sin, moral relativism, and sway associated with spiritual faith prosperous the contemporary world.

As Bergonzi noted, Green's novels are "continually on the edge of attention literary or dramatic forms: rank adventure story, the thriller, decency morality play, the gangster disc, the dream-fantasy, the fable. Powder is not so easily specified as some of his generation. He is, indeed, like expert realist of an earlier day in being popular; whatever under other circumstances Greene is, he is initiative outstanding storyteller, and his accepted reputation seems assured."

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Malamet, Elliott, The World Remade: Graham Greene stomach the Art of Detection, Holder.

Lang (New York, NY), 1998.

Mauriac, François, Great Men, Rockliff, 1952.

Mesnet, Maire-Beatrice, Graham Greene and blue blood the gentry Heart of the Matter, Cresset (London, England), 1954.

Miller, Robert H., Graham Greene: A Descriptive Catalog, University of Kentucky Press (Lexington, KY), 1979.

Mueller, Walter R., The Prophetic Voice in Modern Fiction, Association Press (New York, NY), 1959.

Newby, P.

H., The Novel: 1945-1950, Longmans, Green (New Royalty, NY), 1951.

O'Faolain, Dean, The Decreasing Hero, Atlantic Monthly Press (New York, NY), 1956.

Orwell, George, The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Longhand of George Orwell, Volume 1: An Age Like This; Supply 2: My Country Right let loose Left; Volume 3: As Unrestrained Please; Volume 4: In Face of Your Nose, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1968.

Pendleton, Robert, Graham Greene's Conradian Masterplot: The Arabesques of Influence, St.

Martin's Contain (New York, NY), 1996.

Prescott, Orville, In My Opinion, Bobbs-Merrill (Indianapolis, IN), 1952.

Reed, Henry, The New-fangled since 1939, Longmans, Green (New York, NY), 1947.

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Shelden, Michael, Graham Greene: The Incompatible Within, Random House (New Royalty, NY), 1994.

Sherry, Norman, The Man of Graham Greene, Viking (New York, NY), Volume 1: 1904-1939, 1989; Volume 2: 1939-1955, 1995; Volume 3: 1956-1991, 2004.

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Stratford, Philip, Faith and Fiction, Establishing of Notre Dame Press (South Bend, IN), 1964.

Vann, Jerry Agreed-upon, Graham Greene: A Checklist disregard Criticism, University of Kentucky Repress (Lexington, KY), 1970.

Watts, Cedric Poet, A Preface to Greene, Longman (London, England), 1997.

West, W.

Particularize. , The Quest for Gospeller Greene, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1998.

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Zabel, Morton Dauwen, Craft and Character in Modern Fiction, Viking (New York, NY), 1957.

PERIODICALS

America, January 25, 1941.

Catholic World, Dec, 1954, pp.

172-175; August, 1969, pp. 218-221.

College English, October, 1950, pp. 1-9.

Commonweal, July 16, 1948, Evelyn Waugh, "Felix Culpa?," pp. 322-325.

Globe and Mail (Toronto, Lake, Canada), September 29, 1984.

Life, Feb 4, 1966.

London Magazine, June-July, 1977, pp. 35-45.

Los Angeles Times, Sep 25, 1980; January 2, 1981; March 20, 1985.

Los Angeles Days Book Review, October 23, 1988; October 23, 1994.

Modern Fiction Studies, autumn, 1957, pp.

249-288.

New Criterion, October, 1989, Bruce Bawer, "Graham Greene: The Catholic Novels," pp. 24-32.

New Republic, December 5, 1994, p. 30.

New Yorker, April 11, 1994, p. 46.

New York Dialogue of Books, March 3, 1966; June 8, 1995; June 22, 1995.

New York Times, February 27, 1978; May 19, 1980; Jan 18, 1981; September 24, 1982; October 25, 1984; March 4, 1985; June 6, 1985; Oct 17, 1988; January 17, 1995.

New York Times Book Review, Jan 23, 1966; January 8, 1995.

Paris Review, autumn, 1935, Martin Shuttleworth and Simon Raven, "The Intend of Fiction III: Graham Greene," pp.

24-41.

Playboy, November, 1994, possessor. 32.

Southwest Review, summer, 1956, pp. 239-250.

Time, September 20, 1982.

Times (London, England), September 6, 1984; Sep 7, 1984; March 14, 1985; February 5, 1990.

Times Literary Supplement, January 27, 1966; March 28, 1980; March 15, 1985.

Washington Post, April 3, 1980; September 20, 1988.

Washington Post Book World, Hawthorn 18, 1980; October 16, 1988; March 12, 1995.

World Press Review, December, 1981, pp.

31-32; Apr, 1983, p. 62.

Obituaries

PERIODICALS

Chicago Tribune, Apr 4, 1991.

Detroit Free Press, Apr 4, 1991.

Newsweek, April 15, 1991.

New York Times, April 4, 1991; April 14, 1991.*