The Confidential Agent
An Entertainment
$24.94
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
15 November 2001
Summary
Bright, photographic, evocative new covers for Greene’s backlist, to celebrate one of the keystone writers of the Vintage Classics list
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY IAN RANKIN
“In a class by himself…the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man’s consciousness and anxiety” William Golding
In a small continental country civil war is raging. Once a lecturer in medieval French, now a government agent, D is a scarred stranger in England, sent on a mission…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099286196 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 009928619X |
| Author: | Graham Greene |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2001 |
| Weight: | 188g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Vintage Classics |
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“In a class by himself… the ultimate chronicler of 20th-century man’s consciousness and anxiety.” William Golding
”‘In a class by himself…the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-centuryman’s consciousness and anxiety’ William Golding” “‘The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists, rich in exactly etched and moving portraits of real human beings…the tragic and comic ironies of love, loyalty and belief’” – V. S. Pritchett The Times “‘A superb storyteller…he had a talent for depicting local colour, a keen sense of the dramatic, and eye for dialogue, and skill in pacing his prose’” New York Times
About The Author
Graham Greene
Graham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in 1940 became literary editor of the Spectator. He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991.
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