Victor Baxter is a young boy when a secretive stranger known simply as “the Captain” brings him from his boarding school to London. Victor becomes the surrogate son and companion of a woman named Liza, who renames him “...

Graham Greene’s 1951 novel centers on the attempt of Maurice Bendix, a London novelist, to learn why his lover, Sarah, had abandoned him without a word of explanation several years before. In the course of the story, Sarah dies,...

Bertram had no belief in luck. An unsuccessful assistant accountant, he was planning to get married for the second time - quietly. But Dreuther, a director of Bertram's firm, whimsically switches the honeymoon to Monte Carlo. Here Ber...

The secret war in 'The Ministry of Fear' is between those who pity and those who can bear pain--other people's pain endlessly, the people who don't care....To feel compassion for someone is to make oneself their equal; to pity them is...

Rollo Martins' usual line is the writing of cheap paperback Westerns under the name of Buck Dexter. But when his old friend Harry Lime invites him to Vienna, he jumps at the chance. With exactly five pounds in his pocket, he arrives o...

This is no book for those who would turn delicate noses away from the gutters and sewers of life; but there is nothing that could give the faintest gratification to snickerers. If it is as downright as surgery, it is, also, as clean ...

The book is a comedy...and sometimes a farce, but it is also Mr. Greene's De Senectute, turned upon age and death....Turned toward death, the book implies, one longs for a way of life free from the venom of morality, grim death thwart...

One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, in a new edition commemorating its 75th anniversary  Seventy-five years ago, Graham Greene published The Power and the Glory, a moralist thriller that traces a line of influence ...

Graham Greene's classic Cuban spy story, now with a new package and a new introduction First published in 1959, Our Man in Havana is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire that still resonates ...