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The Tenth Man (Vintage Classics)
Graham Greene
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Description for The Tenth Man (Vintage Classics)
Paperback. In a prison in Occupied France one in every ten men is to be shot. The prisoners draw lots among themselves - and for rich lawyer Louis Chavel, it seems that his whole life has been leading up to an agonizing and crucial failure of nerve. Hysterical with a sense of injustice, he offers to barter everything he owns for someone to take his place. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 122.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR
In a prison in Occupied France during the Second World War, the order is given that every tenth inmate is to be executed. Louis Chavel, a rich lawyer, draws the short straw and barters everything he owns to exchange places with another man and survive. Destitute but free, Chavel later returns to the house that he sold for his life, where he must face the consequences of his cowardice and seek redemption.
Product Details
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099284147
SKU
9780099284147
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Ref
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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 The Tenth Man (Vintage Classics)
Greene was a past master of the psychological thriller and this was no exception
Observer
A masterpiece - tapped out in the lean, sharp prose that film work taught Greene to perfect
Sunday Times
All of the Greene hallmarks are there: pace, ingenuity, a sense of profundities suggested but never insisted upon
Penelope Lively
... Read more
Observer
A masterpiece - tapped out in the lean, sharp prose that film work taught Greene to perfect
Sunday Times
All of the Greene hallmarks are there: pace, ingenuity, a sense of profundities suggested but never insisted upon
Penelope Lively
... Read more