| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 169 pages) |
| Series |
Literary lives |
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Literary lives (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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| Contents |
Acknowledgements -- The Greene Chronology: Some Major Dates and Events -- Introduction: Secret Sharer -- Why Do I Write? -- The Books in My Life -- The Greene Routine -- Greene on the Screen -- Laughter in the Shadow of the Gallows -- A Sort of Autobiography: Epigraphs and Dedications -- The Green Baize Door -- Poets of Criminality and Conscience -- Conclusion: Forgotten Memories -- Select Bibliography -- Annotated Filmography -- Index |
| Summary |
'Life would be impossible for me if I knew that I would never write another book' (Graham Greene). This new study offers an unusual account of the literary life of one of the twentieth century's greatest novelists, revealing the kind of writer he became, and why. It considers his literary motivation, the books that influenced him, the routines he followed. It explores offbeat aspects that are often overlooked. Why does comedy emerge so strongly in the later works? In what way did his interest in the cinema help shape his writing style? What kind of coded autobiography is embedded in his teasing epigraphs and dedications? What clues to his later development are contained in his childhood? Greene was a master of selective disclosure, but he did allow his mask to occasionally slip, as if wanting confession. This book is a sympathetic and fascinating insight into the world of a remarkable author |
| Bibliography |
Filmography: pages 143-160 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-142) and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Greene, Graham, 1904-1991
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| SUBJECT |
Greene, Graham, 1904-1991 fast |
| Subject |
Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography
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Screenwriters -- Great Britain -- Biography
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Novelists, English
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Screenwriters
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780230535800 |
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0230535801 |
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128081800X |
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9781280818004 |
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