{"title":"Graham Greene","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-quiet-american","title":"The Quiet American","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in 1955, Graham Greene’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Quiet American\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a tense, morally complex novel set in French-colonial Vietnam on the eve of the country’s struggle for independence. Thomas Fowler, a weary British journalist, watches the conflict unfold from Saigon, where his relationship with Phuong, a young Vietnamese woman, becomes entangled with the arrival of Alden Pyle, an earnest American whose idealism conceals a dangerous political naivety. As their personal rivalry deepens, Greene draws the reader into a world of covert operations, competing loyalties and the human cost of foreign intervention.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePart political thriller, part intimate study of jealousy, responsibility and belief, the novel questions the innocence of those who claim to act for the greater good. Greene’s own experience as a correspondent in Southeast Asia lends the story its unsettling immediacy, while its portrait of American intervention gives it a significance that extends far beyond its historical setting. Elegant, unsparing and deeply ambiguous, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Quiet American\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e remains one of Greene’s most enduring explorations of the collision between private desire and political conviction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Graham Greene, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Quiet American\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003cem\u003eThe Quiet American\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“A brilliant and deeply disturbing novel.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— The New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64066326528330,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"the-end-of-the-affair","title":"The End of the Affair","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in 1951, Graham Greene’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe End of the Affair\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a haunting novel of love, jealousy and faith, set in wartime and post-war London. Maurice Bendrix, a novelist, becomes consumed by his affair with Sarah Miles, the wife of a civil servant, Henry Miles; when Sarah abruptly ends their relationship, Bendrix’s wounded pride turns into an obsession with discovering why. As he retraces their shared past, Greene gradually reveals the uneasy intersections of desire, chance and belief, in a city still marked by the devastation of war.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTold with Greene’s characteristic psychological precision and moral ambiguity, the novel explores the struggle between human passion and the possibility of divine grace. Its intimate setting and confessional voice give the story the force of a private reckoning, while its questions about suffering, sacrifice and the demands of faith reach far beyond the lovers themselves. Among Greene’s most celebrated works, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe End of the Affair\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e stands as a searching meditation on the ways love can become both a source of torment and a challenge to certainty.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Graham Greene, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe End of the Affair\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003cem\u003eThe End of the Affair\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“One of Greene’s finest novels.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— The Guardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64066427617610,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"brighton-rock","title":"Brighton Rock","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished in 1938, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBrighton Rock\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Graham Greene’s chilling portrait of violence, conscience and damnation in the tawdry seaside world of pre-war Brighton. When seventeen-year-old gangster Pinkie Brown murders a journalist, he attempts to protect himself by manipulating Rose, a young waitress who becomes entangled in his crimes, while Ida Arnold, an outspoken and pleasure-loving woman, pursues the truth. Beneath its tightly wound plot of gang warfare, blackmail and murder, Greene’s novel becomes a disturbing study of the conflict between earthly morality and religious belief.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne of Greene’s most celebrated early novels, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBrighton Rock\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e combines the momentum of a crime thriller with the gravity of a Catholic moral fable. Its vividly rendered streets, racecourses and seafront amusements form the setting for a darker inquiry into sin, free will, innocence and the possibility of redemption. In Pinkie, Greene creates a frighteningly young and complicated antagonist whose fear of damnation sits uneasily beside his capacity for cruelty, while Ida’s instinctive belief in justice challenges the assumption that religious conviction guarantees goodness.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Graham Greene, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBrighton Rock\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003cem\u003eBrighton Rock\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“A serious novel could be an exciting novel — that the novel of adventure could also be the novel of ideas.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Ian McEwan, on \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBrighton Rock\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64066794062154,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"the-power-and-the-glory","title":"The Power and the Glory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in 1940, Graham Greene’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Power and the Glory\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e unfolds in 1930s Mexico, where an anticlerical government has outlawed the Catholic priesthood. Its central figure, an unnamed, alcoholic priest known as the whisky priest, moves from village to village, pursued by a determined lieutenant who believes that eradicating religion will bring justice to the poor. Despite his fear, moral failings and awareness of his own unworthiness, the priest continues to serve a community deprived of its religious life. Greene transforms this tense pursuit into a profound exploration of sin, mercy, faith and the troubling distance between moral goodness and spiritual grace.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAmong Greene’s most celebrated novels, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Power and the Glory\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e draws on the religious persecution he encountered during his travels in Mexico, combining the suspense of a fugitive’s journey with the intensity of a spiritual drama. Its portrait of a flawed man struggling to fulfil a sacred duty challenges conventional ideas of heroism and holiness, finding the possibility of grace not in perfection but in human weakness. Stark, compassionate and unsparing, the novel remains a defining work of twentieth-century Catholic literature and one of Greene’s most searching meditations on the nature of belief.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Hate is a lack of imagination.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Graham Greene, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Power and the Glory\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003cem\u003eThe Power and the Glory\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“The book of his held highest in popular as well as critical esteem.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— John Updike, The New York Review of Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64067322609994,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"our-man-in-havana","title":"Our Man in Havana","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in 1958, Graham Greene’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOur Man in Havana\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a brilliantly comic espionage novel set in pre-revolutionary Cuba. James Wormold, a modest British vacuum-cleaner salesman in Havana, is recruited by the Secret Service and, lacking both intelligence and reliable informants, begins inventing agents and fabricating reports from the designs of vacuum-cleaner parts. What starts as an ingenious way to earn extra money soon spirals beyond his control, as imaginary threats acquire alarming consequences and the machinery of espionage proves dangerously willing to believe its own inventions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDescribed by Greene as an “entertainment”, the novel combines farce and suspense with a sharp satire of bureaucracy, political paranoia and the absurdities of Cold War intelligence. Beneath its lightness lies a more unsettling question about the distance between official narratives and reality, and the human cost when institutions mistake fiction for truth. Written at the height of Cold War tensions and published on the eve of the Cuban Revolution, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOur Man in Havana\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e remains one of Greene’s most enduring comic novels, exposing the folly of power with a wit that is as incisive as it is playful.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Graham Greene, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOur Man in Havana\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOur Man in Havana\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“The end, which takes place in London, is in keeping with the plot, which is ironic, fantastic, and, in Mr. Greene’s talented and contemptuous hands, plausible.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— The New Yorker, 1958\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64067433726282,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}]}],"url":"https:\/\/thelamppostparis.com\/fr\/collections\/graham-greene.oembed","provider":"The Lamp-Post Library \u0026 Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}