Graham Greene

Christopher Hitchens

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Selected Stories

Journey Without Maps

Twenty-One Stories

England Made Me

The Honorary Consul

Travels With My Aunt

Monsignor Quixote

The Tenth Man

A Gun for Sale

The Man Within

The Heart of the Matter

Discover Graham Green’s prescient political masterpiece

The Quiet American

The Power and the Glory

The Ministry of Fear

The Comedians

The End of the Affair

Stamboul Train

The Confidential Agent

The Third Man and The Fallen Idol

Discover Graham Greene's most iconic novel.

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Our Man In Havana

As comical, satirical, atmospherical an "entertainment" as he has given us

He had a sharp nose for trouble and injustice. In Our Man In Havana - a witty send-up of an agent's life - it was Cuba before Castro

Nobody should be anywhere near power who hasn't read (or seen the film of) Our Man in Havana, a powerful satire on the silly world of spying by a man who had experienced it

Graham Greene captured a pre-Castro Cuba of daiquiris and decadence... hilarious

British Intelligence being sent up something rotten

Daily Telegraph, 20 Best Spy Novels of All Time

The human story is warm and the satire made me laugh out loud

Discover Graham Greene’s blackly comic and timely espionage thriller, set amid the vice and squalor of pre-revolutionary Havana. 
 
‘British Intelligence being sent up something rotten’ Daily Telegraph 
 
 Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power cuts. His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him, so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he's tempted. In return all he has to do is carry out a little espionage and file a few reports. But when his fake reports start coming true, things suddenly get more complicated and Havana becomes a threatening place. 
 
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Bright, photographic, evocative new covers for Greene's backlist, to celebrate one of the keystone writers of the Vintage Classics list

Graham Greene (Author) 
 Graham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in 1940 became literary editor of the Spectator. He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991. 
 
Christopher Hitchens (Introducer) 
 Christopher Hitchens was an English-born American author, journalist and literary critic. He was a columnist at Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Slate, Free Inquiry, and a variety of other media in a career that spanned more than four decades and made him a prominent public intellectual, and a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits. His books include The Monarchy; Blood, Class, and Nostalgia; No One Left to Lie Toand God Is Not Great. He died in 2011.

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