Graham Greene first editions
Graham Greene first edition books are particularly collectable. Graham Greene's first published novel was The Man Within (1929). The next two books, The Name of Action (1930) and Rumour at Nightfall (1932), were unsuccessful; and he later disowned them. His first true success was Stamboul Train (1932), adapted as the film Orient Express (1934). Most of his novels would be so adapted.
He supplemented his novelist's income with freelance journalism, book and film reviews for The Spectator, and co-editing the magazine Night and Day, which folded in 1937. Greene's film review of Wee Willie Winkie, featuring nine-year-old Shirley Temple, cost the magazine a lost libel lawsuit.
In 1973, Greene had an uncredited cameo appearance as an insurance company representative in François Truffaut's film Day for Night.
Greene originally divided his fiction into two genres: thrillers (mystery and suspense books), such as The Ministry of Fear, which he described as entertainments, often with notable philosophic edges, and literary works, such as The Power and the Glory, which he described as novels, on which he thought his literary reputation was to be based.
As his career lengthened, both Greene and his readers found the distinction between entertainments and novels increasingly problematic. The last book Greene termed an entertainment was Our Man in Havana in 1958. When Travels with My Aunt was published eleven years later, many reviewers noted that Greene had designated it a novel, even though, as a work decidedly comic in tone, it appeared closer to his last two entertainments, Loser Takes All and Our Man in Havana, than to any of the novels. Greene, they speculated, seemed to have dropped the category of entertainment. This was soon confirmed. In the Collected Edition of Greene's works published in 22 volumes between 1970 and 1982, the distinction between novels and entertainments is no longer maintained. All are novels.
Greene also wrote short stories and plays, which were well-received, although he was always first and foremost a novelist. He collected the 1948 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Heart of the Matter.
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 Greene Graham Labyrinthine Ways $700.00 Time Remaining: 16d 1h 25m Buy It Now for only: $700.00 Buy It Now |
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 Greene Graham THE MINISTRY OF FEAR 1st $550.00 Time Remaining: 21d 4h 4m Buy It Now for only: $550.00 Buy It Now |
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 Brighton Rock (Vintage Classics)  |
 The End Of The Affair |
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 The Power And The Glory (Vintage Classics) |
 The Heart Of The Matter |
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