Graham Greene: A Life In Letters

Greene, Richard

ISBN 10: 0316727938 / ISBN 13: 9780316727938

Editore: Little, Brown, 2007

1st reprint hardback, 2007. Original pictorial dustjacket fine, protected in a clear plastic sleeve. Black cloth VG. Pages very clean & tight. No inscriptions. Illustrated. 446 pages. Uncommon in the UK. Codice articolo ABE-8626070278337509879

Riassunto:

One of the undisputed masters of English prose in the twentieth century, Graham Greene (1904-91) wrote tens of thousands of personal letters. This substantial volume presents a new and engrossing account of his life constructed out of his own words. Meticulously chosen and engagingly annotated, this selection of Greene's letters - including many to his family and close friends that were unavailable even to his official biographer - gives an entirely new perspective on a life that combined literary achievement, political action, espionage, travel, and romantic entanglement. The letters describe his travels in Mexico, Africa, Malaya, Vietnam, Haiti, Cuba and other trouble spots, where he observed the struggles of victims and victors with a compassionate and truthful eye. The book includes a vast number of unpublished letters to Evelyn Waugh, Auberon Waugh, Anthony Powell, Edith Sitwell, R. K. Narayan, Muriel Spark and other leading writers of the time. Some letters reveal the agonies of his romantic life, especially his relations with his wife, Vivien Greene, and with his mistress Catherine Walston. The sheer range of experience contained in Greene's correspondence defies comparison.

Informazioni sull'autore: Richard Greene, currently Professor of English at Toronto University, is the editor of THE SELECTED LETTERS OF EDITH SITWELL and the author of Sitwell's forthcoming biography. He is not related to Graham Greene.

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Titolo: Graham Greene: A Life In Letters
Casa editrice: Little, Brown
Data di pubblicazione: 2007
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Near Fine
Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine