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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 · 447,323 ratings · 38,032 reviews · 737 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Quiet American by Graham Greene, Robert Stone (Introduction) 3.98 avg rating — 75,218 ratings — published 1955 — 5 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 — 74,684 ratings — published 1951 — 263 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 3.99 avg rating — 45,549 ratings — published 1940 — 424 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 — 43,316 ratings — published 1958 — 258 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 — 37,508 ratings — published 1938 — 276 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 3.96 avg rating — 31,525 ratings — published 1948 — 3 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 3.79 avg rating — 17,686 ratings — published 1969 — 7 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 3.78 avg rating — 17,246 ratings — published 1950 — 259 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 — 10,702 ratings — published 1978 — 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
	The Comedians 3.99 avg rating — 10,458 ratings — published 1966 — 3 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 – 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 – 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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December 2015 New School Classics Group Read

1908, Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery, 320 pages

24 votes, 18.6%

1972, Watership Down by Richard Adams, 481 pages

17 votes, 13.2%

1969, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, 304 pages

15 votes, 11.6%

1920, This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 288 pages

13 votes, 10.1%

1966, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, 360 pages

11 votes, 8.5%

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

7 votes, 5.4%

1987, Beloved by Toni Morrison, 324 pages

6 votes, 4.7%

1963, The Collector by John Fowles, 283 pages

6 votes, 4.7%

1950, A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute, 359 pages

6 votes, 4.7%

1982, The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, 544 pages

5 votes, 3.9%

1974, Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt, 144 pages

5 votes, 3.9%

1995, The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, 216 pages

4 votes, 3.1%

1935, BUtterfield 8 by John O'Hara, 256 pages

4 votes, 3.1%

1988, A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark, 192 pages

3 votes, 2.3%

1937, Christ in Concrete by Pietro Di Donato, 256 pages

1 vote, 0.8%

1974, The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier, 267 pages

1 vote, 0.8%

1986, Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino, 288 pages

1 vote, 0.8%

129 total votes

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