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Graham Greene


Born
in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, The United Kingdom
October 02, 1904

Died
April 03, 1991

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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
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The Third Man

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“Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.”
Graham Greene

“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

“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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November 2015 New School Classics Group Read

1982, Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally, 429 pages
 
  25 votes, 17.7%

1988, Matilda by Roald Dahl, 240 pages
 
  22 votes, 15.6%

1997, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, 434 pages
 
  16 votes, 11.3%

1930, As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, 267 pages
 
  14 votes, 9.9%

1988, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, 197 pages
 
  13 votes, 9.2%

1987, Beloved by Toni Morrison, 324 pages
 
  11 votes, 7.8%

1932, Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, 233 pages
 
  8 votes, 5.7%

 
  7 votes, 5.0%

1989, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, 288 pages
 
  6 votes, 4.3%

 
  4 votes, 2.8%

 
  4 votes, 2.8%

1949, The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, 342 pages
 
  3 votes, 2.1%

1932, The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth, 352 pages
 
  3 votes, 2.1%

1928, Quicksand by Nella Larsen, 192 pages
 
  2 votes, 1.4%

1939, Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, 243 pages
 
  2 votes, 1.4%

1931, The Road Back by Erich Maria Remarque, 352 pages
 
  1 vote, 0.7%

1997, Out by Natsuo Kirino, 400 pages
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

 
  0 votes, 0.0%

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