Graham Greene (39 kníh)
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Graham Greene Our Man in Havana ENHe carried with him the breath of beaches and the leathery smell of a good club. This title comes with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens. 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…
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Graham Greene Our Man In HavanaWormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts. 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 file a few reports..
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Graham Greene Paradox křesťanství CZTento soubor podnětných esejů vynikajícího anglického prozaika Grahama Greena vyšel česky již v roce 1970 péčí nakladatelství Vyšehrad. Naše nové vydání dávno nedostupného titulu zpřístupňuje i původně vynechané texty: proslov Ctnost neloajálnosti přednesený na univerzitě v Hamburku, rozhovor z publikace Ten druhý a jeho dvojník a medailon G. K. Chestertona. Texty jsou také doplněny o cenzurované pasáže. Jádro knihy…
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Graham Greene The End of the Affair ENSet in London during and just after World War II, Graham Greene's The End of the Affair is a pathos-laden examination of a three-way collision between love of self, love of another, and love of God. The affair in question involves Maurice Bendrix, a solipsistic novelist, and a dutifully married woman, Sarah Miles. The lovers meet at a party thrown by Sarah's dreary civil-servant husband, and proceed to liberate…
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Graham Greene The End of the Affair ENThe love affair between Maurice Bendix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. After a chance meeting rekindles his love and jealousy two years later, Bendix hires a private detective to follow Sarah, and slowly his love for her turns into an obsession.
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Graham Greene The End of The AffairThe love affair between Maurice Bendix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. After a chance meeting rekindles his love and jealousy two years later, ...
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Graham Greene The Heart of the Matter ENScobie, a police officer serving in a war-time West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.
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Graham Greene The Heart of the Matter ENGraham 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. When Scobie falls in love with the young widow Helen, he finds vital passion again yielding to…
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Graham Greene The Third Man and Other StoriesThe Third Man is Greene's brilliant recreation of post-war Vienna, a city of desolate poverty occupied by four powers. Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless in Vienna to visit his old friend and hero Harry Lime. Harry is dead, but...
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Graham Greene Travels With My AuntHenry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, to travel to Brighton, ...
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