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Graham Greene : Routledge Revivals - John Spurling

Graham Greene

By: John Spurling

Paperback | 19 January 2026 | Edition Number 1

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Graham Greene is an immensely popular as well as powerful and idiosyncratic writer. His leading characters are murderers, spies, fugitives and outsiders and his most typical plot is that of the hunter and the hunted. In this book, originally published in 1983, John Spurling sets about tracking down the author behind the protagonists. Beginning with an analysis of the patterns of Greeneâs mind as revealed in the 40 or so works of fiction, drama, criticism, travel and autobiography he has published, the author goes on to explore the way the patterns are modified from the political thrillers of the 1930s through the âCatholicâ novels of the 1940s and 1950s to the post-war comedies and âThird Worldâ novels. Greene is the odd man out of a generation of remarkable writers born around the turn of the 20th Century who lived through the destruction of the 19th century world order. John Spurlingâs highly original study tells us why.

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