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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


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 · 440,619 ratings · 37,148 reviews · 723 distinct works • Similar authors
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The End of the Affair
3.90 avg rating — 73,291 ratings — published 1951 — 263 editions
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The Power and the Glory
3.98 avg rating — 44,836 ratings — published 1940 — 424 editions
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Our Man in Havana
3.94 avg rating — 42,497 ratings — published 1958 — 259 editions
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Brighton Rock
3.69 avg rating — 37,023 ratings — published 1938 — 276 editions
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The Heart of the Matter
3.96 avg rating — 31,283 ratings — published 1948 — 272 editions
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Travels with My Aunt
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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
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December 2015 New School Classics Group Read

 
  24 votes, 18.5%

1972, Watership Down by Richard Adams, 481 pages
 
  17 votes, 13.1%

 
  15 votes, 11.5%

 
  13 votes, 10.0%

 
  11 votes, 8.5%

 
  7 votes, 5.4%

1987, Beloved by Toni Morrison, 324 pages
 
  6 votes, 4.6%

1963, The Collector by John Fowles, 283 pages
 
  6 votes, 4.6%

1950, A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute, 359 pages
 
  6 votes, 4.6%

 
  5 votes, 3.8%

1974, Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt, 144 pages
 
  5 votes, 3.8%

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%

 
  3 votes, 2.3%

 
  2 votes, 1.5%

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%

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