Plano Nacional de Leitura Livro recomendado para a Formação de Adultos, como sugestão de leitura. O Cônsul Honorário é um dos livros mais famosos de Graham Greene e aquele que o próprio autor considerava como o seu melhor romance e simultaneamente o que lhe mais custou a escrever. A obra tem como cenário uma cidade da …
Novela do escritor inglês Henry Graham Greene, publicado originalmente em inglês, sob o título Stamboul Train em 1932. É o primeiro grande sucesso literário do autor, que, diferentemente de outras obras suas, mais densas, a considerava pertencente ao gênero entretenimento. Trata-se de uma obra onde as histórias das …
Monsenhor Quixote é uma novela escrita por Graham Greene, e publicada em 1982. O livro faz uma reconstituição da novela espanhola Don Quixote de Miguel de Cervantes com várias cenas cômicas, mas também entra em discussão no que diz respeito à vida pós-ditadura, comunismo, e a fé católica. Padre Quixote, um paroquial …
The Ministry of Fear is a 1943 novel written by Graham Greene. It was first published in Britain by William Heinemann. It was made into the 1944 film Ministry of Fear, directed by Fritz Lang and starring Ray Milland. It revolves around the relationship between Love and Fear. Whilst adopting the thriller form, with a …
Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The bomb party is a novel by the English novelist Graham Greene. The eponymous party has been examined as an example of a statistical search problem.
A Gun for Sale is a 1936 novel by Graham Greene. The novel was first published by Doubleday Doran in the U.S. in June 1936 as This Gun For Hire; it was published by William Heinemann in the U.K. in July 1936 as A Gun For Sale. Raven is a man dedicated to ugly deeds. When Raven is paid for killing the Minister of War …
The Confidential Agent is a thriller novel by British author Graham Greene. Fueled by Benzedrine, Greene wrote it in six weeks. To avoid distraction, he rented a room in Bloomsbury from a landlady who lived in an apartment below him. He used that apartment in the novel and had an affair with the landlady's daughter. …
The Third Man is Greene’s brilliant recreation of post-war Vienna. Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless to visit his friend and hero, Harry Lime. But Harry has died in suspicious circumstances, and the police are closing in on his associates.The Fallen Idol is the chilling story of a small boy …