Brighton Rock [antikvár]

BRIGHTON ROCKGraham Greene was born in 1904 and educated at Berkham-sted School, where his father was the headmaster. On coming down from Balliol College, Oxford, where he published a book of verse, he worked for three years as a sub-editor on The Times. He established his reputation with his fourth növel, Stamboul Train. In 1935 he made a journey across Libéria, described in Journey Without Maps, and on his return was appointed film critic of the Spectator. In 1926 he had been received into the Román Catholic Church and was com-missioned to visit Mexico in 1938, and report on the religious persecution there. As a result he wrote The Lawless Roads and, later, The Power and the Glory.Brighton Rock was published in 1938, and in 1940 he became literary editor of the Spectator. The next year he undertook work for the Foreign Office and was sent out to Sierra Leone in 1941-3. One of his major post-war novels, The Heart of the Matter, is set in West Africa and is con-sidered by many to be his finest book. This was followed by The End of the Affair, The Quiet American, a story set in Vietnam, Our Man in Havana, and A Burnt-Out Case. The Comedians and twelve other novels have been filmed, as well as two of his short stories, and The Third Man was written as a film treatment. In 1967 he published a collection of short stories under the title May We Borrow Your Husband? and his most recent növel is Travels With My Aunt (1969).In all Graham Greene has written somé thirty novels, 6enter-tainments', plays, children's books, travel books, and collec-tions of essays and short stories. In 1971 he published his autobiography, A Sort of Life. He was made a Companion of Honour in 1966.