Graham Greene

Early one morning the little train wakes up in his home town, Little Snoreing, and decides to go on an adventure. He chugs and puffs his way through villages, past castles and over bridges. But soon he gets tired, and the big city is a bit scary… there’s only one thing for it; he’ll have to head back! THE LITTLE TRAIN, Graham Greene’s first children’s book, was originally published in 1946 with Ardizzone's illustrations commissioned 28 year later. First published by The Bodley Head in 1974, this new edition brings the classic little train back to life for a whole new generation.

One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, in a new edition commemorating its 75th anniversary Seventy-five years ago, Graham Greene published The Power and the Glory, a moralist thriller that traces a line of influence back to Dostoyevsky and forward to Cormac McCarthy. Named one of the 100 best novels of the twentieth century by Time magazine, it stands today as his masterpiece. Mexico, the late 1930s: A paramilitary group has outlawed the Catholic Church and is executing its clergy. Now the last priest is on the run, fleeing not just an unshakable police lieutenant but also his own wavering morals. As he scraps his way toward salvation, haunted by an affair from his past, the nameless "whiskey priest" is pulled between the bottle and the Bible, tempted to renounce his religion yet unable to ignore the higher calling he's chosen. Timeless and unforgettable, The Power and the Glory is a stunning portrait of both physical and spiritual survival by a master dramatist of the human soul. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Graham Greene, uno de los novelistas mas importantes en lengua inglesa, celebro su 80 aniversario con la publicacion de este libro: un relato vivo, fuerte y chispeante sobre su amistad con Omar Torrijos, presidente de Panama de 1968 a 1981, fallecido en un extrano accidente de aviacion. En agosto de 1981 tenia preparada la maleta para mi quinta visita a Panama cuando me entere por telefono de la muerte del general Omar Torrijos Herrera, mi amigo y anfitrion. En ese momento se me ocurrio escribir una especie de pequeno homenaje a un politico inspirador en un periodo vital de Latinoamerica y de la historia de su pais, y a una inusual y duradera amistad. Aunque el propio Greene afirmo que quiso escribir unas memorias y termino escribiendo una mezcla de cosas bastante insatisfactorias, la admiracion y el afecto que sentia por el General quedan reflejados sinceramente en unas paginas llenas de sabrosas anecdotas y de inteligentes analisis sobre la situacion en Centroamerica y sobre el papel del lider panameno. Omar Torrijos --explica Greene-- queria una Centroamerica socialdemocrata, independiente de Estados Unidos, pero que no supusiera una amenaza para su colosal vecino. Su sueno no pudo convertirse en realidad.

UPDATED AND EDITED WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JUDITH ADAMSONWhether reporting from the London cinema, Cotswolds villages, second-hand bookshops, war zones or political trouble spots, Graham Greene's novelistic gifts for detail, drama and compassionate curiosity provide unique and resonant insights into his life and times.

A young boy, Victor, is collected from school by a stranger in a bowler hat - the stranger says he has won Victor in a game of backgammon with Victor's father. The stranger, known as the Captain, takes Victor to live with the sweet but withdrawn Lisa, where he serves as her conduit to the outside world.

'In August 1981 my bag was packed for my fifth visit to Panama when the news came to me over the telephone of the death of General Omar Torrijos Herrera, my friend and host.

To Graham Greene, 'Africa will always be the Africa of the Victorian atlas, the blank unexplored continent the shape of the human heart.' IN SEARCH OF A CHARACTER contains two African notebooks: Congo Journal, which records Graham Greene's travels in 1959, and his stay at the Yonda leper colony in the jungle which inspired the story for A Burnt-Out Case. Convoy to West Africa describes Greene's voyage in a cargo boat during the Second World War, from Liverpool to Freetown, Sierra Leone, the setting for THE HEART OF THE MATTER.

TragedyDenis Cannan and Pierre Bost, adapted from Graham Greene. Characters: 28 male, 9female, extrasUnit set, frags., travellers. In the revolutionary days of Mexico a priest decides to stay with his people in disguise rather than escape. It is little consolation, however. For wherever the priest goes with the Mass and the Sacraments, the police are sure to follow executing those who harbored him. Though he is a humanly weak priest, with a past of ma

Makten og æren er Graham Greenes berømte bok om whiskypresten - en av forfatterens virkelig store romaner. Presten er på flukt - ikke fordi han er helt eller forbryter; men bare fordi han bor i et land der den katolske kirken er bannlyst. Presten er en ynkelig person på alle måter, tynget av synder og unnlatelser, ensom og med en ulykkelig trang til whisky. Han vakler som en elendig gjennom det kronglete, ofte veiløse landskapet, underveis mot en lite heroisk død. Men i prestens indre vokser noe frem, noe som hever ham over ynkverdigheten og fornedrelsen, slik at han til slutt dør som en verdig mann, omgitt av lys og håp - og nåde. En typisk Greene, spennende som en thriller; gripende og utfordrende. Boken er tidligere filmatisert.

ONE OF FIVE NEW VINTAGE FUTURE CLASSIC READING GUIDE EDITIONSDuring a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky priest', is on the run. But compassion and humanity force him along the road to his destiny, reluctant to abandon those who need him, and those he cares for.

I et spill hvor de opptredende burde være marionetter, kan ”den menneskelige faktor” snu alt på hodet. Maurice Castle skal snart pensjonere seg fra jobben sin i den britiske etterretningstjenesten. Han lever et rolig liv i en forstad til London, og ser frem til å tilbringe mer tid sammen med sin kone, Sarah. De forelsket seg da han var på oppdrag i Sør-Afrika under apartheidtiden. Hun er svart afrikaner, og noen år tilbake utførte han dobbeltspionasje for å hjelpe folket hennes. Bidraget hans til kommunistene ble imidlertid brukt på måter han ikke hadde greid å forutse. Nå haler fortiden ubønnhørlig innpå, og han må stille seg spørsmål om lojalitetens og forræderiets natur, og om kjærlighetens rett.

En regntung kveld i London i 1946. Maurice Bendrix kjenner en bølge av hat idet han får øye på Henry Miles. En gang elsket han Henrys kone, Sarah. Mens tyske bomber smalt over London levde de ut en lidenskap som aldri kan slettes ut, selv om Sarah brøt forbindelsen, tvunget av plikt, religion, anstendighet. Møtet med den forsmådded Henry utløser alle de gamle følelsene, men nå som et vrengebilde, farligere og mørkere enn den gangen. Maurice finner Sarahs dagbok. Han lar deres kjærlighetshistorie forvandles til en detektivhistorie, der lag på lag avdekkes. Deres forhold kan aldri ta slutt, Maurice kan alltid elske og hate Sarah. Og bruke henne.

Romanens hovedperson, den pensjonerte banksjefen «Henry Pulling», med interesse for georginer og hjemmets lune ro, møter i sin mors begravelse sin tante «Augusta», som han ikke har sett på over femti år. Etterhvert som han blir kjent med tanten lærer han også hennes livshistorie å kjenne, og gir til slutt opp sin tidligere «kjedelige» tilværelse i England. Tante Augusta får lurt sin nevø med på de mest fantastiske ekspedisjoner, og sammen opplever de en rekke hendelser som ihvertfall ikke han hadde forestilt seg var mulig.

'Listen. You're a patriotic Englishman. Highly respected. Been here for years. A wide circle of influential friends. It is important that we have our man in Havana, Mr Wormwold.' Jim Wormwold, an under-employed vacuum cleaner salesman living in 1950s Cuba, is struggling to pay for his teenage daughter's increasingly extravagant lifestyle. So when the British Secret Service asks him to become their 'man in Havana' he can't afford to say no. There's just one problem... he doesn't know anything! To avoid suspicion, he begins to recruit non-existent sub-agents, concocting a series of intricate fictions. But Wormwold soon discovers that his stories are closer to the truth tan he could ever have imagined... In Clive Francis' adaptation, Graham Greene's classic satirical novel becomes a wonderfully funny and fast-moving romp.