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These wide-ranging tales of menace, tragedy, and comedy provide ample proof that “in the short story, as well as the novel, Graham Greene is the master” (The New York Times).
Written between 1929 and 1954, listed below are twenty-one tales by a “master storyteller” (Newsweek). Whatever the crime, regardless of the pursuit, regardless of the temper—from the tragic and horrifying to the ribald and bittersweet, Graham Greene is “the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man’s consciousness and anxiety” (William Golding).
In “The End of the Party,” a recreation of hide-and-seek takes a terrifying flip at midnight. In “The Innocent,” a romantic will get a impolite awakening when he finds a hidden souvenir from a childhood crush. A husband’s sexual indiscretion is revealed in a most public and embarrassing means in “The Blue Film.” A rebellious teen’s flight from her petit bourgeois life features a unhealthy boy, a gun, and a plan in “A Drive in the Country.” In “A Little Place off the Edgware Road,” a suicidal man’s encounter with a stranger in a grubby cinema seals his destiny. A younger boy is ushered right into a darkish world when he discovers the secrets and techniques adults conceal in “The Basement Room.” And in “When Greek Meets Greek,” a intelligent con between two scoundrels carries an sudden sting. In these and greater than a dozen different tales, Greene confronts his ordinary themes of betrayal and vengeance, love and hate, religion and doubt, guilt and grief, and pity and pursuit.
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