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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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Graham Greene’s books

Average rating: 3.87 · 451,591 ratings · 38,561 reviews · 705 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Quiet American by Graham Greene, Robert Stone (Introduction) 3.98 avg rating — 76,067 ratings — published 1955 — 381 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 — 75,566 ratings — published 1951 — 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 Power and the Glory 3.99 avg rating — 45,988 ratings — published 1940 — 37 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 — 43,812 ratings — published 1958 — 268 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 — 37,845 ratings — published 1938 — 274 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 — 31,680 ratings — published 1948 — 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
	Travels with My Aunt 3.79 avg rating — 17,879 ratings — published 1969 — 209 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 — 17,410 ratings — published 1950 — 10 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 — 10,789 ratings — published 1978 — 171 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 — 10,521 ratings — published 1966 — 176 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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Polls

May 2023 New School Classics Poll

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

57 votes, 22.4%

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, 1939, 231 pages

57 votes, 22.4%

My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell, 1956, 273 pages

46 votes, 18.1%

The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig, 1942, 461 pages

31 votes, 12.2%

The Power of the Powerless by Václav Havel, 1978, 176 pages

27 votes, 10.6%

Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, 1915, 144 pages

26 votes, 10.2%

Little Big Man by Thomas Berger, 1964, 422 pages

10 votes, 3.9%

254 total votes

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