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Viajes con mi tía es la más divertida novela que escribió Graham Greene, a pesar de que él la describía como una obra triste, e incluso trágica, acerca de la muerte y de las diversas actitudes que pueden adoptarse ante ella. Henry Pulling, jubilado y soltero, vive dedicado al cultivo de las dalias en un apacible pueblo ingles. El encuentro con su tia Augusta, amante de la buena vida y con un oscuro pasado, trastorna por completo el ordenado sistema de vida de Henry quien, arrastrado al vertigo de los viajes, se liberara de si mismo, de todos sus prejuicios y ataduras y renacera a una nueva vida. Viajes con mi tia es la mejor expresion de una veta poco explotada por Greene pero para la que estaba extraordinariamente dotado, la novela comica.Graham Greene (1904-1991) es uno de esos casos raros de escritor que ha pasado a la historia de la literatura universal con honores, y al mismo tiempo es un narrador de amplia difusion y numerosisimos lectores (ademas de una mina inagotable para los guionistas cinematograficos). Si bien es autor de una notable obra teatral y de libros de viajes muy interesantes (Los caminos sin ley), destaca como uno de los grandes creadores del thriller y en su obra esta el germen de todos las derivaciones que posteriormente ha tomado el genero. Cultivo con exito tanto el cuento y el relato breve (¿Puede prestarnos a su marido?) como la novela (El factor humano, Nuestro hombre en La Habana, Brighton Rock, El americano impasible, El poder y la gloria, El consul honorario, El fin del romance, El tercer hombre...).

This phantasmagoric study in terror is set in Second World War London. Arthur Rowe's mind is hamstrung by guilt - a Graham Greene speciality - and he stands aside from the war until he happens to guess both the true and the false weight of the cake at a charity fete. From that moment he is the quarry of malign and shadowy forces from which he tries to escape with a mind that is out of focus. The action plays out as bombs pound the city, and who is friend and who foe becomes increasingly uncertain.

Rollo Martins, un escritor de segunda fila, recibe una carta desde Viena de su amigo Harry Lime para que vaya allí a escribir unos artículos periodísticos sobre la ocupación de los aliados. Cuando llega a la ciudad, Rollo se entera, apesadumbrado, de que su amigo ha muerto. El protagonista empieza a investigar y entonces descubre que Harry oculta secretos muy sucios y que del chico que conocio en su adolescencia apenas queda ya nada.

Una obra maestra sobre el irónico destino del hombreEn una cárcel de la Francia ocupada, un oficial alemán comunica a un grupo de presos que tres de ellos serán ejecutados a la mañana siguiente. El grupo de reos decide echarlo a suertes. Jean Louis Chavel saca un papel con la cruz y ofrece toda su fortuna a quien ocupe su lugar. Un hombre llamado Javier acepta pensando en su hermana y su madre. Tras la liberacion, Chavel no resiste la tentacion de visitar su antigua casa y conocer a quien disfruta ahora de sus riquezas.

With a new introduction by Zadie Smith Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious Third Force. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as he intervenes he wonders why: for the sake of politics, or for love?

Pinkie es un matón de poca monta que ve su poder amenazado cuando se establece en la ciudad un delicuente de más altos vuelos. Acaba de matar a un periodista, y la llegada de una joven con el propósito de esclarecer el caso le llevara a planear el asesinato de su propia novia para que no le delate.

To honor Greene's centennial, Penguin is reissuing these six titles in deluxe editions featuring new cover art, French flaps, and ragged paper at an affordable price. Very nice if you need some new copies. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Graham Greene's masterpiece The Heart of the Matter tells the story of a good man enmeshed in love, intrigue, and evil in a West African coastal town. Scobie is bound by strict integrity to his role as assistant police commissioner and by severe responsibility to his wife, Louise, for whom he cares with a fatal pity.

Now, a year after Sarah's death, Bendrix seeks to exorcise the persistence of passion by retracing its course from obsessive love to love-hate. At the start he believes he hates Sarah and her husband, Henry. By the end of the book, Bendrix's hatred has shifted to the God he feels has broken his life but whose existence he has at last come to recognize.

In this classic novel of murder and menace, Graham Greene lays bare the soul of a boy of seventeen who stalks Brighton's tawdry boardwalk with apathy on his face and murder in his heart. Pinkie, the boy with death at his fingertips, is not just bad, he worships in the temple of evil, just as his parents worshipped in the house of God. Crime, in his dark mind, is a release so deep and satisfying that he has no need for drink or women or the love of his fellows. He is an astounding character, sinister and fascinating "a chilling specimen of the Adolf Hitler type," in the words of J. M. Coetzee.

Graham Greene wrote the book and then the screenplay for the British film directed by Carol Reed and starring Joseph Cotton and Orson Welles as Harry Lime. With sound effects, the film theme tune and Martin Jarvis's effective tone, this unabridged title attempts to create the atmosphere of the film as well as do justice to this atmospheric novella.

Anthony Farrant e un uomo fallito, un piccolo imbroglione cosmopolita che, grazie alla protezione della sorella, trova infine rifugio presso Erik Krogh, ricchissimo uomo d''affari svedese, un personaggio ignorante, avido e prepotente, legato solo alle sue ricchezze. Ancor peggio di lui sono i suoi luogotenenti, servili esecutori, privi persino di quella fantasia e di quel coraggio che hanno comunque fatto di Krogh uno degli uomini piu ricchi del mondo. E il peggiore di tutti e proprio Farrant, pronto a obbedire "coscienziosamente" anche agli ordini piu aberranti. Ma in quel mondo corrotto sara proprio Anthony a portare una luce di speranza quando, con un gesto di coraggiosa ribellione, riuscira a riscattare lo squallore della sua esistenza.

Pinkie, el protagonista de esta novela, es un matón de poca monta de Brighton que ve su poder amenazado cuando se establece en la ciudad un delincuente de más altos vuelos. Acaba de matar a un periodista, y la llegada de una joven con el proposito de esclarecer el caso le llevara a planear el asesinato de su propia novia, para evitar que le delate, pero finalmente sera el quien se ve abocado al suicidio.A lo largo de buena parte de la novela, Greene consigue crear una creciente preocupacion por una jovencita poco atractiva como personaje, mediante la amenaza constante que pesa sobre ella, y de la que la propia novia de Pinkie no es en absoluto consciente. Las consideraciones religiosas, el retrato de la vida cotidiana en los bajos fondos y la tension dramatica del argumento dificilmente encontraran parangon, y son en buena medida lo que explica la admiracion que Brighton Rock ha despertado siempre entre los escritores mas variopintos, de Cabrera Infante a Borges.

Una audaz apisonadora, capaz de desarticular la banda de la mano negra; un viejo ómnibus, despreciado por todos y que, sin embargo, consigue reducir a dos malvados ladrones; una pequeña locomotora, que se lanza en busca de aventuras por railes desconocidos; y por ultimo, un carricoche de bomberos injustamente relegado.

En 1935 Graham Greene llegó a Liberia, país que Estados Unidos acaba de fundar con la intención de devolver al continente africano un contingente de esclavos liberados. Su condición de mundo virginal, a caballo entre la naturaleza salvaje y la sociedad organizada, atrajo a Greene a esta tierra que luchaba por sus señas de identidad.

During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky priest', is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being shut off, his chances getting fewer. But compassion and humanity force him along the road to his destiny, reluctant to abandon those who need him, and those he cares for.

Eight of the nine pieces in The Sense of Reality are published here for the first time. The range is characteristically wide: realism in history; judgement in politics; the special right of philosophers to self-expression; the history of socialism; the nature and impast of Marxism; the radical cultural revolution instigated by romanticism; the Russian notion of artistic commitment; the origins and practice ofnationalism. The title essay, starting from the impossibility of recreating a bygone epoch, provides a superb centrepiece. ''All the productions of Berlin''s long and distinguished career are characterised by urbanity, insight, profound scholarship and witty elegance. These traits are satisfyingly and instructively here present again.'' FINANCIAL TIMES ''They exude a generous, sympathetic and large-minded enthusiasm for all sorts of thinkers and all sorts of ideas that make them a continuous pleasure to read.'' TLS

Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious ''Third Force''. As his na-ve optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as he intervenes he wonders why: for the sake of politics, or for love.

Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious "Third Force". As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch.