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COLLECTED ESSAYS (VINTAGE CLASSICS)

by Unknown Author

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344 pages1999VINTAGEISBN 9780099282679

About this book

[This book] contains nearly eighty essays, reviews and occasional pieces, composed between novels, plays and travel books over four prolific decades. From Henry James and Somerset Maugham to Ho Chi Minh and Kim Philby, the range of subjects is eclectic and stimulating, and the characters-writers, priests, explorers-are brought vividly to life. 'A man should be judged by his enmities as well as by his friendships,' Greene wrote. In that sense Collected essays is as revealing as autobiography and as characteristically rich in humour, insight and doubt.

Publication Details

Publisher
VINTAGE
Published
1999
Pages
344
ISBN
9780099282679
Language
en

About Unknown Author

Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) 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. 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 the 1968 Shakespeare Prize and the 1981 Jerusalem Prize. Several of his stories have been filmed, some more than once, and he collaborated with filmmaker Carol Reed on *The Fallen Idol* (1948) and *The Third Man* (1949). He converted to Catholicism in 1926 after meeting his future wife, Vivien Dayrell-Browning. Later in life he took to calling himself a "Catholic agnostic". Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Greene)

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