Грэм Грин — книжные серии

Сюжет романа известного английского писателя Грэма Грина построен на столкновении благонамеренного управляющего банком на пенсии Генри Пуллинга с причудливым миром своей тети, колесящей по свету и постоянно ввязывающейся в опасные авантюры.

В сборник известных зарубежных авторов включены произведения, в которых в остросюжетной форме излагаются действия мафиозных групп и лиц преступного мира.

Rollo Martins, a failing novelist, is invited to Vienna by his best friend, Harry Lime. The city he arrives in is unrecognizable – torn apart by the Second World War and shared between the occupying Allies. What’s more, Harry is dead, and the circumstances look suspicious . . . Determined to uncover the truth, Martins must pick through the rubble of this broken city in search of answers.

Accompanied here by twelve further stories that exhibit the full range of Graham Greene’s masterly storytelling, The Third Man is an atmospheric noir that oozes with suspense.

With an introduction by the biographer and editor Professor Richard Greene.

It is 1941 and bombs have turned London into the front line of a world war. In the shadows of the Blitz, Hitler’s agents are running a blackmail operation to obtain documents that could bring the nation to instant defeat. Arthur Rowe, a man once convicted of a notorious mercy killing, stumbles onto a German spy operation in Bloomsbury and must be silenced. But even with his memory taken from him, he is still a very dangerous witness.

A taut thriller and a haunting exploration of pity, love, and guilt, The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene is universally acknowledged as one of the greatest of all spy novels.

With an introduction by the biographer and editor Professor Richard Greene.

Life in pre-revolutionary Cuba is not easy and James Wormold, a failing vacuum cleaner salesman, is struggling to fund the increasingly lavish lifestyle of his manipulative sixteen year-old daughter, Milly. So when an enigmatic Englishman offers him an extra income in return for a little spying, he is sorely tempted . . . But when the fake reports he’s been sending to London start to come true, Havana suddenly becomes a very dangerous place indeed.

Both a brilliant Cold War thriller and hilarious work of satire, Our Man in Havana is Graham Greene’s classic tale of an accidental spy, and a truly gripping read.

Pinkie Brown, a neurotic teenage gangster wielding a razor blade and a bottle of sulfuric acid, commits a brutal murder – but it does not go unnoticed. Rose, a naive young waitress at a rundown cafe, has the unwitting power to destroy his crucial alibi, and Ida Arnold, a woman bursting with easy certainties about what is right and wrong, has made it her mission to bring about justice and redemption.

Set among the seaside amusements and dilapidated boarding houses of Brighton’s pre-war underworld, Brighton Rock by Graham Greene is both a gritty thriller and a study of a soul in torment. A classic of modern literature, it maps out the strange border between piety and savagery.

This beautiful Macmillan Collector’s Library edition of Brighton Rock features an introduction by the poet, biographer and editor, Professor Richard Greene.

В книге представлена повесть Грэма Грина "Ничья земля" - шпионская история времен образования "железного занавеса", полная психологического напряжения и драматизма. Текст повести, впервые издающейся в России, адаптирован (без упрощения текста оригинала) по методу Ильи Франка. Уникальность метода заключается в том, что запоминание слов и выражений происходит за счет их повторяемости, без заучивания и необходимости использовать словарь.
Пособие способствует эффективному освоению языка, может служить дополнением к учебной программе. Предназначено для широкого круга лиц, изучающих английский язык и интересующихся английской культурой.
Издание сопровождается аудиоприложением.

“The purser took the last landing-card in his hand and watched the passengers cross the wet quay, over a wilderness of rails and points, round the corners of abandoned trucks.”

As the Orient Express hurtles across Europe on its three-day journey from Ostend to Constantinople, its voyage binds together the lives of several of its passengers in a fateful interlock. The menagerie of characters includes Coral Musker, a beautiful chorus girl; Carleton Myatt, a rich Jewish businessman; Richard John, a mysterious and kind doctor returning to his native Belgrade; the spiteful journalist Mabel Warren; and Josef Grunlich, a cunning, murderous burglar.

What happens to these strangers as they put on and take off their masks of identity and passion, all the while confessing, prevaricating, and reaching out to one another in the “veracious air” of the onrushing train, makes for one of Graham Greene’s most exciting and suspenseful stories. Originally published in 1933, Orient Express was Greene’s first major success. This Penguin Deluxe Edition features an introduction by Christopher Hitchens.

“Wilson sat on the balcony of the Bedford Hotel with his bald pink knees thrust against the ironwork…”

Graham Greene’s masterpiece, The Heart of the Matter, tells the story of a good man enmeshed in love, intrigue, and evil in a West African coastal town. Scobie is bound by strict integrity to his role as assistant police commissioner and by severe responsibility to his wife, Louise, for whom he cares with a fatal pity.

When Scobie falls in love with the young widow Helen, he finds vital passion again yielding to pity, integrity giving way to deceit and dishonor—a vortex leading directly to murder. As Scobie’s world crumbles, his personal crisis develops the foundation of a story by turns suspenseful, fascinating, and, finally, tragic.

Originally published in 1948, The Heart of the Matter is the unforgettable portrait of one man—flawed yet heroic, destroyed and redeemed by a terrible conflict of passion and faith. This Penguin Deluxe Edition features an introduction by James Wood.

“I met Aunt Augusta for the first time at my mother’s funeral…”

Described by Graham Greene as “the only book I have written just for the fun of it,” Travels with My Aunt is the story of Hanry 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 way—winding through Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, and 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.

Originally published in 1970, Travels with My Aunt offers intoxicating entertainment, yet also confronts some of the most perplexing human dilemmas. This Penguin Deluxe Edition features an introduction by Gloria Emerson.

“Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him…”

Graham Greene’s chilling exposé of violence and gang warfare in the pre-war underworld is a classic of its kind. Pinkie, a teenage gangster on the rise, is devoid of compassion or human feeling, despising weakness of both the spirit and the flesh. Responsible for the razor slashes that killed mob boss Kite and also for the death of Hale, a reporter who threatened the livelihood of the mob, Pinkie is the embodiment of calculated evil. As a Catholic, however, Pinkie is convinced that his retribution does not lie in human hands. He is therefore not prepared for Ida Arnold, Hale’s avenging angel. Ida, whose allegiance is with life, the here and now, has her own ideas about the circumstances surrounding Hale’s death. For the sheer joy of it, she takes up the challenge of bringing the infernal Pinkie to an earthly kind of justice.

Graham Greene’s classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam

“I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused,” Graham Greene’s narrator Fowler remarks of Alden Pyle, the eponymous “Quiet American” of what is perhaps the most controversial novel of his career. Pyle is the brash young idealist sent out by Washington on a mysterious mission to Saigon, where the French Army struggles against the Vietminh guerrillas.

As young Pyle’s well-intentioned policies blunder into bloodshed, Fowler, a seasoned and cynical British reporter, finds it impossible to stand safely aside as an observer. But Fowler’s motives for intervening are suspect, both to the police and himself, for Pyle has stolen Fowler’s beautiful Vietnamese mistress.

Originally published in 1956 and twice adapted to film, The Quiet American remains a terrifiying and prescient portrait of innocence at large. This Graham Greene Centennial Edition includes a new introductory essay by Robert Stone.

“A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look ahead…”

“This is a record of hate far more than of love,” writes Maurice Bendrix in the opening passages of The End of the Affair, and it is a strange hate indeed that compels him to set down the retrospective account of his adulterous affair with Sarah Miles. Now, a year after Sarah’s death, Bendrix seeks to exorcise the persistence of his passion by retracing its course from obsessive love to love-hate. At first, he believes he hates Sarah and her husband, Henry. Yet as he delves further into his emotional outlook, Bendrix’s hatred shifts to the God he feels has broken his life, but whose existence at last comes to recognize.

Originally published in 1951, The End of the Affair was acclaimed by William Faulkner as “for me one of the best, most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody’s language.” This Penguin Deluxe Edition features an introduction by Michael Gorra.

Грэм Грин (1904-1991) имел обыкновение делить свои романы на `серьезные` и `развлекательные`, но такое деление весьма условно: он всегда был и остается Мастером. В его детективном романе - `Наемный убийца` (1936) - захватывающая фабула, неординарный герой, чья жизнь сопряжена со смертельным риском, убедительность и четкость деталей, и все эти качества ставят роман в один ряд с его всемирно известными произведениями, такими как `Сила и слава`, `Тихий американец`,`Ведомство страха`.

Талантливому английскому прозаику Грэму Грину (1904— 1991) блистательно удавалось решить труднейшую задачу: передать тончайшие движения человеческой души на фоне глобальных проблем современного мира. Писатель мастерски создает образ героя, стоящего передвыбором между добром и злом. А выбор этот героям приходится делать и в романе `Комедианты`, действие которого происходит в 60-е годы XX века на Гаити, и в `Нашем человеке в Гаване`.

Роман «Сила и слава» (1940) английского писателя Г.Грина — классическое произведение мировой литературы XX в. В нем повествуется о кровавых гонениях на Церковь в революционной Мексике, о цене святости, конфликте людей веры и безбожной идеологии.

У кнігу ўключаны прасякнутыя гуманістычным пафасам і напружанай маральна-этычнай праблематыкай, вострасюжэтныя, з элементамі дэтэктыву і меладрамы, раманы «Стамбульскі экспрэс» і «Хто прайграе, бярэ ўсё» англійскага пісьменніка Грэма Грына (1904-1991).

Грэм Грин (1904-1991) — известный английский писатель, его романы, проникнутые раздумьями о судьбах людей, о неизбежном столкновении душевного благородства с жестокой моралью XX века, снискали ему мировую славу.
В сборник включен роман «Комедианты» (1966), обличающий диктаторский режим на Гаити, и остросюжетный, с элементами гротеска роман «Путешествия с тетушкой» (1969), в котором занимательная интрига ведет к неожиданной развязке, заставляя читателя задуматься над серьезнейшими проблемами.

Признанный классик современной английской литературы Грэм Грин (1904-1991) определял свой роман `Наш человек в Гаване`(1958) как `фантастическую комедию`. Опыт работы в британской разведке дал писателю материал, а присущая ему ирония и любовь к фарсу и гротеску позволили создать политический роман, который читается с легкостью детектива.

Грэм Грин - выдающийся английский писатель XX века - во время Второй мировой войны был связан с британскими разведывательными службами. Его глубоко психологический роман `Ведомство страха` относится именно к этому времени.