Graham Greene Books in Order

novel · 1929

Graham Greene’s first published novel tells the story of Andrews, a young man who has betrayed his fellow smugglers and fears their vengeance. Fleeing from them, with no hope of pity or salvation, he takes refuge in the house of a young…

novel · 1930

novel · 1931

novel · 1932

novel · 1934

"It's a Battlefield is both a suspense story and a serious novel, tense and probing. the keynote is set in a quotation from Kinglake at the beginning of the volume: 'In so far as the battlefield presented itself to the bare eyesight of…

novel · 1935

nonfiction · 1938

novel · 1936

Raven is an ugly man dedicated to ugly deeds. His cold-blooded killingof the Minister of War is an act of violence with chillingrepercussions, not just for Raven himself but for the nation as awhole. The money he receives in payment for…

novel · 1938

Pinkie Brown, a neurotic teenage gangster wielding a razor blade and a bottle of sulfuric acid, commits a brutal murder – but it does not go unnoticed. Rose, a naive young waitress at a rundown cafe, has the unwitting power to destroy his…

novel · 1939

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY IAN RANKIN 'In a class by himself...the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety' William Golding In a small continental country civil war is raging. Once a lecturer in medieval…

novel · 1940

One of Greene’s most powerful novels, the book takes as its theme the era of religious suppression in Mexico during the early 1930’s. An unnamed Catholic priest, an alcoholic with a shameful past in search of either oblivion or…

novel · 1943

"A master thriller and a remarkable portrait of a twisted character." —Time For Arthur Rowe, the trip to the charity fête was a joyful step back into adolescence, a chance to forget the nightmare of the Blitz and the aching guilt of…

novel · 1948

An assistant police commissioner in a West African coastal town lets passion overrule his honor.

novella · 1950

Initially written as a screenplay Greene later transferred the film treatment to novel form as a novella, published together with The Fallen Idol. Set in post-war Vienna The Third Man concerns the mysterious Harry Lime, a black market…

novel · 1951

Maurice Bendrix is a sardonic and cynical writer who reflects on his affair with Sarah, a married woman, during the bombing of London in 1940.

novel · 1955

novel · 1955

This novel is a study of New World hope and innocence set in an Old World of violence. The scene is Saigon in the violent years when the French were desperately trying to hold their footing in the Far East. The principal characters are a…

novel · 1958

Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power cuts. His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him, so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he's tempted. In return all he has to do is…

novella · 1959

novel · 1961

Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a…

novel · 1966

Strangers in Port-au-Prince are united in the corruption, fear, and revolt of Duvalier-era Haiti in “the most interesting novel of [Greene’s] career” (The Nation). Haiti, under the rule of Papa Doc and his menacing paramilitary, the…

novel · 1969

Greeneland has been described often as a land bleak and severe. A whisky priest dies in one village, a self-hunted man lives with lepers in another. But Greeneland has its summer regions, and in the sunlight everything looks a bit…

novel · 1973

In a provincial Argentinean town, Charley Fortnum, a British consul with dubious authority and a weakness for drink, is kidnapped by Paraguayan revolutionaries who have mistaken him for the American ambassador. Dr. Eduardo Plarr, a local…

novel · 1978

Maurice Castle is a high-level operative in the British secret service during the Cold War. He is deeply in love with his African wife, who escaped apartheid South Africa with the help of his communist friend. Despite his misgivings,…

novella · 1980

novel · 1980

The enigmatic Dr. Fischer is a millionaire, student of human nature, practical joker, and party giver. His parties are famous or perhaps nortorious for they are part of his experiment to see how far the very, very rich will go to satisfy…

novel · 1982

En katolsk præst og en afsat kommunistisk borgmester kører sammen rundt i Spanien i en gammel bil og kommer ud for en række sælsomme og muntre hændelser.

novella · 1985

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.

novel · 1988

*The Captain and the Enemy* is the last novel published by the English author Graham Greene. It tells the story of a young boy named Victor Baxter taken away from his boarding school by a stranger to live in London. This stranger is…

travel_book · 1936

This is an account of a trip Greene made in 1935 with his cousin, Barbara Greene, through the previously unexplored interior of Liberia. It was an extremely uncomfortable journey, with Greene falling seriously ill halfway through the…

travel_book · 1939

In the late 1930s, Graham Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico to report on how the inhabitants had reacted to the brutal anticlerical purges of President Calles. The Lawless Roads is his spellbinding record of that journey. Taking him…

literary_criticism · 1942

travel_book · 1961

memoir · 1963

literary_criticism · 1966

memoir · 1971

"Writing A Sort of Life ... was in the nature of a psychoanalysis. I made a long journey through time, and I was one of my characters." Known for his espionage thrillers set in exotic locales, Graham Greene is the writer who launched a…

biography · 1974

memoir · 1980

With superb skill and feeling, Graham greene retraces the experiences and encounters of a long and extraordinary life. His restlessness is legendary; he has travelled like an explorer seeking our people and political situations. 'at the…

memoir · 1984

På baggrund af egne dagbøger har Graham Greene skrevet en meget personlig beretning om general Omar Torrijos Herrera, hans nærmeste rådgivere, landet Panama, og dets befolkning

memoir · 1992

short_story_collection · 1935

short_story · 1935

short_story_collection · 1947

short_story_collection · 1963

A collection of four stories comprising ` Under The Garden' (A short novel); `A Visit to the Morin'; Dream of a Strange Land' and `A Discovery in the Woods'. In these four stories Graham Greene, one of the master of modern English…

short_story_collection · 1967

short_story · 1990

short_story_collection · 1990

Greene's first new collection of stories in twenty years features twelve tales written over a span of six decades, including "The New House," "News in English," and "The Moment of Truth"

essay_collection · 1948

essay_collection · 1951

essay_collection · 1969

essay_collection · 1972

essay · 1972

essay · 1982

essay · 1989

essay_collection · 1990

essay_collection · 1990

children's_book · 1946

Bored with his daily run between two villages, the little train decides to run away.

children's_book · 1950

Replaced by modern, motorized equipment, Sam Trolley, the fireman, wonders what will become of him, the little horse-drawn fire engine, and Toby, the fire horse.

children's_book · 1952

As Mr. Potter discovers, operating a grocery store is no easy business, especially when the competition takes all the business.

children's_book · 1953

A little steamroller at the London Airport helps foil a smuggling plan.

poetry_collection · 1925

poetry_collection · 1983

screenplay_collection · 1950

play_collection · 1952

play · 1953

play · 1957

play · 1959

A “delicious . . . champagne cocktail” of a stage comedy about a sporting British couple’s marital—and extramarital—propositions (New York Herald Tribune). Victor Rhodes, a hearty and amiable dentist in North London, has what he thinks is…

play · 1964

play · 1975

play · 1981

play · 1983

play · 1984

screenplay · 2005

Mission and return to the West. The result is a remarkable, psychologically charged exploration of fear and crossed frontiers. Author and playwright Graham Greene (1904-91) is best known for his works Brighton Rock, The Power and the…

interview_book · 1983

correspondence · 1989