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Twenty-One Stories (Vintage Classics)
Graham Greene
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Description for Twenty-One Stories (Vintage Classics)
Paperback. The stories in this text, all written between 1929 and 1954, share the themes that feature so strongly in Graham Greene's novels: humour and violence, pity and hatred, betrayal and pursuit. They recount tales of indiscretions revealed and secrets uncovered. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 152.
A celebrated collection of stories from one of the most important British writers of the twentieth century. Features Greene's most famous short story, 'The Destructors'.
Written between 1929 and 1954, each of these stories bears the hallmark themes that characterise Greene's great novels: betrayal and vengeance, love and hate, pity and violence.
Opening with the iconic story 'The Destructors', in which a gang of schoolboys destroys a house that has survived the Blitz, Greene offers us deliciously satisfying glimpses into twenty-one worlds, with each piece written as masterfully as his novels. From the chilling climax of a children's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
VINTAGE CLASSICS
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099286165
SKU
V9780099286165
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99-99
About 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 ... Read more
Reviews for Twenty-One Stories (Vintage Classics)
A superb storyteller..he had a talent for depicting local colour, which he gathered at first hand; a keen sense of the dramatic; an eye for dialogue, and skill in pacing his prose - New York Times One of the most important British writers of the twentieth century
Daily Telegraph
Greene was a force beyond his books... The outsider, ... Read more
Daily Telegraph
Greene was a force beyond his books... The outsider, ... Read more