{"product_id":"the-portable-graham-greene-isbn-9780143039181","title":"The Portable Graham Greene","description":"In his essays, criticism, screenplays, autobiography, and novels, Graham Greene explored a territory located somewhere on the border between despair and faith, treachery and love.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis cross-section of Greene’s work was originally selected with the author’s help in 1973 and has now been extensively revised and updated. It includes the complete novels \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Heart of the Matter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Third Man\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, along with excerpts from ten other novels; short stories; selections from Greene’s memoirs and travel writings; essays on English and American literature; and public statements on issues that range from repression in the Soviet Union to torture in Northern Ireland to the paradoxical virtue of disloyalty. An extensive critical and biographical introduction, headnotes, chronology, and bibliography by editor Philip Stratford make \u003cb\u003eThe Portable Graham Greene\u003c\/b\u003e as invaluable for scholars as it is essential for any traveler through Greene’s richly menacing and strangely seductive literary landscapes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.The Portable Graham Greene\u003ci\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003ePrincipal Dates, Travels, Books\u003cbr\u003eBibliographical Notes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eI. Reminiscences\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEditor's Preface\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrimary Symbols\u003cbr\u003eThe Future Strikes\u003cbr\u003eLife on the Border\u003cbr\u003eRussian Roulette\u003cbr\u003eFirst Travels\u003cbr\u003eA Salmon Tea\u003cbr\u003eJourney Back\u003cbr\u003eA Discovery\u003cbr\u003eReturn\u003cbr\u003eAfrica Revisited\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eII. Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEditor's Preface\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe End of the Party\u003cbr\u003eMinty's Day\u003cbr\u003eThe Innocent\u003cbr\u003eA Marriage Proposal\u003cbr\u003eThe Prison Cell\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Heart of the Matter\u003cbr\u003eThe Third Man\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Destructors\u003cbr\u003eA Small Affair\u003cbr\u003eA Shocking Accident\u003cbr\u003eThe Signing-Up of 59200\/5\u003cbr\u003eThe Blessing\u003cbr\u003eCheap in August\u003cbr\u003eTravel Tips from Aunt Augusta\u003cbr\u003eThe Wedding Reception\u003cbr\u003eMonsignor Quixote and Sancho on Doubt\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII. Criticism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEditor's Preface\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Lesson of the Master\u003cbr\u003eFrom Feathers to Iron\u003cbr\u003eRider Haggard's Secret\u003cbr\u003eFrancois Mauriac\u003cbr\u003eThe Redemption of Mr. Joyboy\u003cbr\u003eFord Madox Ford\u003cbr\u003eFrederick Rolfe: Edwardian Inferno\u003cbr\u003e\"Sore Bones; Much Headache\"\u003cbr\u003eJohn Gerard\u003cbr\u003eThe Novelist and the Short Story\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIV. Commitments\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEditor's Preface\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo Statements on Commitment\u003cbr\u003eConvenience and Morality\u003cbr\u003eThe Last Pope\u003cbr\u003eColette's Funeral Rites\u003cbr\u003eUnholy Waugh\u003cbr\u003eA Superstition to Live By\u003cbr\u003eSlide into Barbarism\u003cbr\u003eLetter to a West German Friend\u003cbr\u003eThe Daniel-Sinyavsky Trial\u003cbr\u003eShame of the Catholics, Shame of the English\u003cbr\u003eWhat's Wrong with the Gospels?\u003cbr\u003eA Misguided Pope\u003cbr\u003eThe Great Spectacular\u003cbr\u003eThe Meeting in the Kremlin\u003cbr\u003eThe Virtue of Disloyalty\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eGraham Greene \u003c\/b\u003e(1904-1991), whose long life nearly spanned the length of the twentieth century, was one of its greatest novelists. Educated at Berkhamsted School and Balliol College, Oxford, he started his career as a sub-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Times of London. \u003c\/i\u003eHe began to attract notice as a novelist with his fourth book, \u003ci\u003eOrient Express, \u003c\/i\u003ein 1932. In 1935, he trekked across northern Liberia, his first experience in Africa, recounted in \u003ci\u003eA Journey Without Maps \u003c\/i\u003e(1936). He converted to Catholicism in 1926, an edifying decision, and reported on religious persecution in Mexico in 1938 in \u003ci\u003eThe Lawless Roads, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich served as a background for his famous \u003ci\u003eThe Power and the Glory\u003c\/i\u003e, one of several “Catholic” novels (\u003ci\u003eBrighton Rock, The Heart of the Matter, The End of the Affair). \u003c\/i\u003eDuring the war he worked for the British secret service in Sierra Leone; afterward, he began wide-ranging travels as a journalist, which were reflected in novels such as \u003ci\u003eThe Quiet American, Our Man in Havana, The Comedians, Travels with My Aunt, The Honorary Consul, The Human Factor, Monsignor Quixote, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Captain and the Enemy. \u003c\/i\u003eIn addition to his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, two books of autobiography—\u003ci\u003eA Sort of Life \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWays of Escape\u003c\/i\u003e—two biographies, and four books for children. He also contributed hundreds of essays and film and book reviews to \u003ci\u003eThe Spectator \u003c\/i\u003eand other journals, many of which appear in the late collection \u003ci\u003eReflections. \u003c\/i\u003eMost of his novels have been filmed, including \u003ci\u003eThe Third Man\u003c\/i\u003e, which the author first wrote as a film treatment. Graham Greene was named Companion of Honour and received the Order of Merit among numerous other awards.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305384890597,"sku":"NP9780143039181","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143039181.jpg?v=1767741008","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-portable-graham-greene-isbn-9780143039181","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}