Graham Greene Books In Order
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The Man Within | (1929) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Name of Action | (1930) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Rumour at Nightfall | (1931) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Orient Express / Stamboul Train | (1932) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
It's a Battlefield | (1934) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
England Made Me / The Shipwrecked | (1935) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Gun for Sale / This Gun for Hire | (1936) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Brighton Rock | (1938) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Confidential Agent | (1939) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Power and the Glory / The Labyrinthine Ways | (1940) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Ministry of Fear | (1943) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Heart of the Matter | (1948) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Third Man | (1949) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The End of the Affair | (1951) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Quiet American | (1955) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Loser Takes All | (1955) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Our Man in Havana | (1958) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Burnt-Out Case | (1960) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Comedians | (1966) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Triple Pursuit! | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Honorary Consul | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Third Man | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Human Factor | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Monsignor Quixote | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Getting to Know the General | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Victorian Villainies | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Tenth Man | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Captain and the Enemy | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
The Bear Fell Free | (1935) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Chance For Mr Lever | (1936) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Sense of Reality | (1950) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Destructors | (1955) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Complaisant Lover | (1961) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Under the Garden | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Great Jowett | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
J'Accuse | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
No Man's Land | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Babbling April | (1925) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Graham Greene's Nineteen Stories | (1947) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Twenty-One Stories | (1954) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
May We Borrow Your Husband?&Other Comedies of the Sexual Life | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Collected Stories | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Portable Graham Greene | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Shades of Greene | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Across the Bridge and Other Stories | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Collected Plays | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Complete Short Stories | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Last Word and Other Stories | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Third Man and Other Stories | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Standalone Plays
Three Entertainments | (1952) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Living Room | (1954) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Potting Shed | (1957) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Carving a Statue | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Return of A. J. Raffles | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Picture Books
The Little Train | (1946) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Little Fire Engine | (1950) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Little Horse Bus | (1952) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Little Steamroller | (1955) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Little Fire Engine | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Journey Without Maps | (1936) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Lawless Roads / Another Mexico | (1939) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
British Dramatists | (1942) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Lost Childhood and Other Essays | (1951) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
In Search of a Character: Two African Journals | (1961) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Collected Essays | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Sort of Life | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Pleasure Dome: The Collected Film Criticism, 1935-40 | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Lord Rochester's Monkey: Being the Life of John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Why Do I Write? | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Ways of Escape | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Reflections | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Fragments of Autobiography | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Yours etc.: Letters to the Press, 1945-89 | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A World of My Own: A Dream Diary | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Articles of Faith: The Collected Tablet Journalism of Graham Greene | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Short Story Anthologies
San Francisco Stories | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Los Angeles Stories | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
On Suicide: Great Writers on the Ultimate Question | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
New Orleans Stories | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Chicago Stories | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Southwest Stories | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Florida Stories | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Lust: Lascivious Love Stories and Passionate Poems | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Alaska Stories | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Texas Stories | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
San Francisco Thrillers | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Cape Cod Stories | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
OOB: Anthology series. The author will have written at least one story in this series. |
Publication Order of Vintage Voyages Books
Travels with My Aunt | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
In Patagonia | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Rings of Saturn | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Shadow of the Silk Road | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Blood River | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of The Last Interview Books
Learning to Live Finally | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Kurt Vonnegut | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Jorge Luis Borges | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
James Baldwin: The Last Interview: and other Conversations | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Gabriel García Márquez | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Lou Reed | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Ernest Hemingway | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Nora Ephron: The Last Interview | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Philip K. Dick | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
J. D. Salinger | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Oliver Sacks | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Jane Jacobs | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
David Bowie | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Christopher Hitchens | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Hunter S. Thompson | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Kathy Acker: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Julia Child: The Last Interview and Other Conversations | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Billie Holiday: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Graham Greene: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Shirley Chisholm: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Fred Rogers: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Johnny Cash: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
John Lewis: The Last Interview and Other Conversations | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Janet Malcolm: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Anthologies
The Spy's Bedside Book | (1957) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Contemporary British Short Stories I | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Old School | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Child's Ploy | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Friendship | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
On Suicide: Great Writers on the Ultimate Question | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Killing Spirit | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Crime Never Pays | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Escape to Mexico: An Anthology of Great Writers | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
London Stories | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Writers: Their Lives and Works | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Graham Greene was a critically acclaimed English author of the literary fiction and thriller genres of novels. He was regarded as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Author Greene had gained a lot of popularity along with literary acclaim, which helped him to acquire the reputation of as a noteworthy author very early in his career. He used to write both the entertaining thriller novels as well as serious Catholic books with great ease. In the year 1967, he was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize for his dedicated work in the field of literature. During the course of the 67 years of his writing career, author Greene penned down a total of 25 books, all of which explored the grave political and moral issues of the world. All these elements were depicted in his novels in the form of a Catholic perspective. Greene was strongly considered to be a novelist of Roman Catholic style of writing rather than being just a Catholic. But, most of his books were based on the religious themes of Catholic origin. The 4 major Catholic novels written by him are regarded as the gold standard of the Catholic theme. A few of his other successful books show that author Greene had an avid interest in the intrigues and the workings of the international espionage and politics. Greene was born on October 2, 1904 in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England; and died on April 3, 1991 in Vevey, Switzerland. His family was a large and influential one at that time, and were the owners of the ‘Greene King Brewery’. He studied at the Berkhamsted School, where his father used to work as a teacher and headmaster.
Author Greene had no interest in studying and used to remain quite unhappy all the time. He had even attempted to commit suicide on a few occasions. After his schooling, author Greene joined the Balliol College in Oxford for studying history. He published his debut work in the year 1925, while still being an undergraduate. After the completion of his graduation, he started working as a private tutor and later switched to journalism. He first joined the Nottingham Journal and then became a sub editor at The Times. Greene decided to convert to Catholism after meeting his would be wife Viven Dayrell Browning in the year 1926. Author Greene went on to publish his first book called ‘The Man Within’ in the year 1929. The positive response of the book enabled him to start working as a full time novelist. The income that he used to get by selling his book, he used to use a major part of them for freelance journalism as well as film reviews. Author Greene was once sued by the producers at Fox for one of his film reviews based on the sexuality of a child star. Due to this, he had to live in exile in Mexico till the trial did not get over. While living there, he got the idea of a story that later went on to become one of his masterpieces, titled ‘The Power and the Glory’. Author Greene had a prolonged history of depression that had a major effect on his personal life as well as in his writings. During the last years of his life, author Greene used to live in the same town as Charlie Chaplin and used to visit him very often. Later, the two had become very good friends. He succumbed to leukemia in the year 1991 at the age of 86 and his dead body was cremated in the Corseux cemetery. Just before his death, author Greene was awarded with the Order of Merit of Britain. The family of author Greene comprised of his wife Vivien and a couple of children named Lucy Caroline and Francis. It was believed that he was involved in a few sexual encounters and affairs while he was still married. Due to this, he was estranged with his children and wife, and considered his books to be his children.
One of the earliest books written by author Graham Greene in his writing career was titled as ‘The Quiet American’. This book was released by the Penguin Classics in the year 1955. The main plot of the book is set in Vietnam and depicts the characters of Thomas Fowler, Phuong, Alden Pyle, and Vigot in the lead roles. The story narrated in this novel turns out to be a classic exploration of innocence, morality, and love. At the start of the book, Alden Pyle is described as a man who had better motives behind all the troubles caused by him. He is a brash and young idealist who is sent to Saigon on a mysterious mission by Washington. He is ordered to help the French Army, who were struggling against the Vietnamese guerrillas. But, all the policies that Alden Pyle makes with good intentions turn into bloodshed, after which Fowler is forced to come to his rescue. He is introduced in the novel as a cynical and seasoned British reporter, who could not stand safely on the sides as an observer. However, the motives of Fowler for intervening get suspected by the police as Pyle goes on to steal his beautiful mistress from Vietnam. The novel had opened to great reviews and appreciations all over the world. This helped author Greene to receive great acclaim for his work. The book went on to be adapted into a movie on two occasions. Overall, the novel remains a present and terrifying portrait of innocence.
Another book written by author Green early in his career was titled as ‘The End of Affair’. It was published by the Vintage Classics in the year 1951. The setting of this book is done in London, England, United Kingdom and includes the main characters in the form of Henry Miles, Maurice Bendrix, and Sarah Miles. According to author Greene, the plot of this novel appears more of a story of hate than of love. At the opening scene of the book, Maurice Bendrix is shown as having the same belief. He finds the hate to be a strange one that compels him to set a retrospective account of the adulterous affair that he had with a married woman named Sarah Miles. When Sarah dies suddenly, Maurice Bendrix becomes very much sad. After one year passes by, he begins to exorcise his passion’s persistence by trying to retrace the course from an obsessive love to that of love-hate. In the beginning, Maurice believes that he hates both Sarah and her husband named Henry Miles. But, as he continues to delve into the emotional outlook of himself, his hatred turns towards the God, who he believes has brought his life to a downfall. However, Maurice Bendrix goes on to realize the existence of the God in the end.
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