Graham Greene, Author Penguin Books $7.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-14-012418-7
Victor Baxter was adopted, possibly kidnapped, at age 12 into a strange family as a substitute for a child who died. As he grows older, he becomes involved in some of the suspicious enterprises of his foster father, ``The Captain,'' an apparent...
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Graham Greene, Author Viking Penguin $18.95 (149p) ISBN 978-1-871061-23-9
In his latest collection of short stories, spanning some 60 years of a prolific writing life, the range and development of Greene's ( The Heart of the Matter ) gifts are abundantly evident. In ``The Lottery Ticket'' (1947), Mr. Thriplow, a bachelor...
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Graham Greene, Author Viking Penguin $19.95 (324p) ISBN 978-1-871061-19-2
Like the recent Last Stories , this is a collection of previously uncollected material--in this case essays, reviews and travel pieces from the entire length of the author's 60-year writing career (the earliest written while he was still at Oxford).
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Graham Greene, Author Viking Books $17.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-670-82405-2
Exquisitely understated, moving and graced by humorous touches, Greene's new novel draws the reader into intriguing events related by narrator Victor Baxter. Now age 28, he tells of his 12th birthday when a stranger, ``The Captain,'' takes him from...
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Graham Greene, Author Viking Books $21.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-670-85279-6
Greene (1904-1991) had extraordinarily vivid, fertile, inventive dreams, judging from these excerpts from the dream diaries he kept between 1965 and 1989. The novelist/essayist's dreams of espionage included a mission to Nazi Germany, where he...
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Graham Greene, Author, Christopher Hawtree, Editor, Graham Greene, Other Viking Books $19.95 (296p) ISBN 978-1-871061-22-2
Of the letters to newspapers and magazines that Graham Greene has written for more than 50 years, British freelance journalist Hawtree has selected and arranged chronically a couple of hundred--varying in length from a few lines to several pages and
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David Parkinson, Editor, Graham Greene, Author Applause Books $35 (748p) ISBN 978-1-55783-188-0
Payn, who performed as an actor and singer in several Coward plays, lived with the playwright as part of his extended family for 30 years and now administers his estate. Written with Barry Day, an advertising executive, this effusively affectionate...
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Graham Greene, Author, Jeremy Northam, Read by , read by Jeremy Northam. CSA Word $31.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-934997-26-0
Actor Jeremy Northam (Gosford Park
, Tristram Shandy
) has himself a ball with Greene's comic suspense novel, its Cuban setting and panoply of international characters. He downplays the religious and political undertones of the book in favor of
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