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Selected Stories

Selected Stories

Summary

Graham Greene, the great twentieth-century novelist, also wrote exceptional short stories.

SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY YIYUN LI

Twenty-two of his very best stories are collected here, each of them bearing the hallmark themes that characterise Greene's great novels: betrayal and vengeance, love and hate, pity and violence. Writer and Greene aficionado Yiyun Li has arranged the stories in pairs to create an ingenious new collection: unexpected, surprising and wide-ranging, but always the unmistakable work of one of the twentieth century's greatest and most adored storytellers.

'One of the most important British writers of the twentieth century' Daily Telegraph

Reviews

  • Graham Greene has wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the top ranks of world literature
    John le Carré

About the author

Graham Greene

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.
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