Download or read book Study Guide to Brighton Rock and Other Works by Graham Greene written by Intelligent Education and published by Influence Publishers. This book was released on 2020-06-28 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Graham Greene, winner of Britain's Order of Merit and the Shakespeare Prize. Titles in this study guide include Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter, The Quiet American, Burnt-Out Case, The Comedians, The Little Train, The Potting Shed, The Lawless Roads, The Lost Childhood, Stamboul Train, The Third Man, The Confidential Agent, Our Man in Havana, and The End of the Affair. As one of the leading English novelists of the twentieth-century, Greene’s writings assisted in shaping contemporary catholic literature. Moreover, his thriller novels included philosophical and religious themes in order to explore the moral and political issues of the modern world. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Graham Greene’s classic work, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons they have stood the literary test of time. Each Bright Notes Study Guide contains: - Introductions to the Author and the Work - Character Summaries - Plot Guides - Section and Chapter Overviews - Test Essay and Study Q&As The Bright Notes Study Guide series offers an in-depth tour of more than 275 classic works of literature, exploring characters, critical commentary, historical background, plots, and themes. This set of study guides encourages readers to dig deeper in their understanding by including essay questions and answers as well as topics for further research.
Download or read book Brighton Rock written by Graham Greene and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A teenage sociopath rises to power in Britain’s criminal underworld in this “brilliant and uncompromising” thriller (The New York Times). Seventeen-year-old Pinkie Brown, raised amid the casual violence and corruption in the dire prewar Brighton slums, has left his final judgment in the hands of God. On the streets, impelled by his own twisted moral doctrine, he leads a motley pack of gangsters whose sleazy little rackets have most recently erupted in the murder of an informant. Pinkie’s attempts to cover their tracks have led him into the bed of a timid and lovestruck young waitress named Rose—his new wife, the key witness to his crimes, and, should she live long enough, his alibi. But loitering in the shadows is another woman, Ida Arnold—an avenging angel determined to do right by Pinkie’s latest victim. Adapted for film in both 1948 and 2010 and for the stage as both a drama and musical, and serving as an inspiration to such disparate artists as Morrissey, John Barry, and Queen, “this bleak, seething and anarchic novel still resonate[s]” (The Guardian).
Download or read book Travels with My Aunt written by Graham Greene and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Henry Pulling, a retired and complacent bank manager, who meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. She soon persuades Henry to abandon his dull suburban existence to travel her to Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay. Through Aunt Augusta, one of Greene's greatest comic creations, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society; mixes with hippies, war criminals, and CIA men; smokes pot and breaks all currency regulations.
Download or read book A Study in Greene written by Bernard Bergonzi and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-09-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernard Bergonzi has been reading Graham Greene for many years; he still possesses the original edition of The End of the Affair that he bought when it was published in 1951. After so much recent attention to Greene's life he believes it is time to return to his writings; in this critical study Bergonzi makes a close examination of the language and structure of Greene's novels, and traces the obsessive motifs that recur throughout his long career. Most earlier criticism was written while Greene was still alive and working, and was to some extent provisional, as the final shape of his work was not yet apparent. In this book Bergonzi is able to take a view of Greene's whole career as a novelist, which extended from 1929 to 1988. He believes that Greene's earlier work was his best, combining melodrama, realism, and poetry, with Brighton Rock, published in 1938, a moral fable that draws on crime fiction and Jacobean tragedy, as the masterpiece. The novels that Greene published after the 1950s were very professional examples of skilful story-telling but represented a decline from this high level of achievement. Bergonzi challenges assumptions about the nature of Greene's debt to cinema, and attempts to clarify the complexities and contradictions of his religious ideas. Although this book engages with questions that arise in academic discussions of Greene, it is written with general readers in mind.
Download or read book The Human Factor written by Graham Greene and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maurice Castle is a high-level operative in the British secret service during the Cold War. He is deeply in love with his African wife, who escaped apartheid South Africa with the help of his communist friend. Despite his misgivings, Castle decides to act as a double agent, passing information to the Soviets to help his in-laws in South Africa. In order to evade detection, he allows his assistant to be wrongly identified as the source of the leaks. But when suspicions remain, Castle is forced to make an even more excruciating sacrifice to save himself. Originally published in 1978, The Human Factor is an exciting novel of espionage drawn from Greene’s own experiences in MI6 during World War II, and ultimately a deeply humanistic examination of the very nature of loyalty. This edition features a new introduction by Colm Tóibín. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Download or read book A Study Guide for Graham Greene s The End of the Affair written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Graham Greene's "The End of the Affair," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
Download or read book A Sort of Life written by Graham Greene and published by Random House. This book was released on 1999 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graham Green was born into a veritable tribe of Greenes - six children, eventually, and sic cousins - based in Berkhamstead at the public school where his father was headmaster. In A SORT OF LIFE Greene recalls schooldays and Oxford, adolescent encounters
Download or read book A Study Guide for Graham Greene s A Shocking Accident written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Graham Greene's "A Shocking Accident," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
Download or read book A Study Guide for Graham Greene s The Heart of the Matter written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Graham Greene's "The Heart of the Matter," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
Download or read book Greene on Capri written by Shirley Hazzard and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2000-02-07 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subtle portrait of a great but difficult man and a legendary island. When friends die, one's own credentials change: one becomes a survivor. Graham Greene has already had biographers, one of whom has served him mightily. Yet I hope that there is room for the remembrance of a friend who knew him-not wisely, perhaps, but fairly well-on an island that was "not his kind of place," but where he came season after season, year after year; and where he, too, will be subsumed into the capacious story. For millennia the cliffs of Capri have sheltered pleasure-seekers and refugees alike, among them the emperors Augustus and Tiberius, Henry James, Rilke, and Lenin, and hosts of artists, eccentrics, and outcasts. Here in the 1960s Graham Greene became friends with Shirley Hazzard and her husband, the writer Francis Steegmuller; their friendship lasted until Greene's death in 1991. In Greene on Capri, Hazzard uses their ever volatile intimacy as a prism through which to illuminate Greene's mercurial character, his work and talk, and the extraordinary literary culture that long thrived on this ravishing, enchanted island.
Download or read book Stamboul Train written by Graham Greene and published by Harmondsworth, Middlesex : Penguin Books. This book was released on 1963 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tenth Man written by Graham Greene and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a man who buys his life in a moment of fear set in wartime occupied France.
Download or read book The Honorary Consul written by Graham Greene and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-09-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the story of the politically motivated kidnapping of Charlie Fortnum, a minor British functionary in Argentina.
Download or read book A Study Guide for Graham Greene s The Third Man written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Graham Greene's "The Third Man," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
Download or read book Graham Greene written by A. F. Cassis and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers fifty years of criticism of Graham Greene, a leading man of letters on the English literary scene.
Download or read book Brighton Rock by Graham Greene Book Analysis written by Bright Summaries and published by BrightSummaries.com. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock the more straightforward side of Brighton Rock with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Brighton Rock by Graham Greene, a riveting thriller that follows a young mob boss, Pinkie ‘The Boy’ Brown, as he seeks to cover up the murder of a newspaper columnist named Charles Hale. Matters are complicated when a woman named Ida Arnold, who happened to meet Hale on the day of his death, embarks on a personal quest to uncover the truth, leading Pinkie to take increasingly desperate steps to elude the law. As the bodies pile up, an innocent young waitress named Rose is drawn into Pinkie’s tangled criminal web, convinced that their shared Catholic background has created a bond between them. It is up to Ida to race against time and save Rose from the vicious young man she has fallen in love with... Brighton Rock is considered one of Graham Greene’s seminal ‘Catholic novels’, and is a classic of the thriller genre. Find out everything you need to know about Brighton Rock in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols • Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you on your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!
Download or read book The End of the Affair written by Graham Greene and published by . This book was released on 2010-10-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
