Twenty-One Stories (eBook)

GRAHAM GREENE (Autor)

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2018
199 Seiten
Open Road Media (Verlag)
978-1-5040-5406-5 (ISBN)

Infos

These wide-ranging tales of menace, tragedy, and comedy offer ample proof that "e;in the short story, as well as the novel, Graham Greene is the master"e; (The New York Times). Written between 1929 and 1954, here are twenty-one stories by a "e;master storyteller"e; (Newsweek). Whatever the crime, whatever the pursuit, whatever the mood from the tragic and horrifying to the ribald and bittersweet, Graham Greene is "e;the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety"e; (William Golding). In "e;The End of the Party,"e; a game of hide-and-seek takes a terrifying turn in the dark. In "e;The Innocent,"e; a romantic gets a rude awakening when he finds a hidden keepsake from a childhood crush. A husband's sexual indiscretion is revealed in a most public and embarrassing way in "e;The Blue Film."e; A rebellious teen's flight from her petit bourgeois life includes a bad boy, a gun, and a plan in "e;A Drive in the Country."e; In "e;A Little Place off the Edgware Road,"e; a suicidal man's encounter with a stranger in a grubby cinema seals his fate. A young boy is ushered into a dark world when he discovers the secrets adults hide in "e;The Basement Room."e; And in "e;When Greek Meets Greek,"e; a clever con between two scoundrels carries an unexpected sting. In these and more than a dozen other stories, Greene confronts his usual themes of betrayal and vengeance, love and hate, faith and doubt, guilt and grief, and pity and pursuit.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.7.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• ISBN-10: 1-5040-5406-7 / 1504054067
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5040-5406-5 / 9781504054065