Sedno sprawy – to powieść brytyjskiego pisarza Grahama Greene'a. W 1948 roku otrzymała literacką nagrodę James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Tłem książki jest II wojna światowa, podczas której autor pracował w Sierra Leone dla Secret Intelligence Service. Amerykański tygodnik Time umieścił książkę na liście 100 …
"I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused," Graham Greene's narrator Fowler remarks of Alden Pyle, the eponymous "Quiet American" of what is perhaps the most controversial novel of his career. Pyle is the brash young idealist sent out by Washington on a mysterious mission to Saigon, …
Stamboul Train is a novel by author Graham Greene. Set on an "Orient Express" train, the book was renamed Orient Express when it was published in the United States.
Bertram is not a believer in luck. An unambitious accountant, his plans for his second marriage are typically quiet: St. Luke’s then two weeks in Bournemouth. But he comes to the attention of Dreuther, the director of his company, who changes Bertram’s plans for him: wedding and honeymoon in Monte Carlo, on board his …