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This volume explores Graham Greene's literary career. Among other things, it explores his motives for writing; the literary and cinematic influences that shaped his work; his writing routine and the importance of his childhood experience. Greene was elusive, enigmatic and this book teases out... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Graham Greene: Add a description of this character.
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Henry James
- Wormold
- Carol Reed
- Carter
- Auden
- Buchan
- Browning
- Watson
- Yvonne Cloetta
- Catherine Walston
- Conrad
- Chaplin
- Holly
- Michael Meyer
- Visconti
- Francois Truffaut
- Harry Lime
- Baines
- Rycker
- Orwell
- Sarah
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First Sentence edit
In the preface to his classic satirical novel, Joseph Andrews (1742), Henry Fielding refers ironically to the then Poet Laureate, Colley Cibber, who had recently published his autobiography and who, Fielding wrote, 'lived the life he recorded and his by many thought to have lived such a life only in order to write it'.
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Macmillan Literary Lives. (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Neil Sinyard (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 823.912
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