Rocher de Brighton est un roman noir de Graham Greene, publié en 1938. Le roman a été adapté à deux reprises au cinéma : en 1947 par John Boulting et en 2011 par Rowan Joffé.
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 …
Rollo Martins' usual line is the writing of cheap paperback Westerns under the name of Buck Dexter. But when his old friend Harry Lime invites him to Vienna, he jumps at the chance. With exactly five pounds in his pocket, he arrives only just in time to make it to his friend's funeral. The victim of an apparently …
Ultime roman de Graham Greene, Le Capitaine et l'Ennemi forme une sorte de testament littéraire du grand romancier, l'un des plus considérables de la littérature britannique du XXe siècle. Testament dans la mesure où l'on retrouve, à travers le récit du narrateur Victor Baxter – ce garçon gagné au jeu par l'étrange …
Robert LAFFONT, coll: Pavillons,. 1978. In-8 Broché. 408 pages, Traduit de l'anglais par Georges BELMONT et Hortense CHABRIER, Le facteur humain est l'expression par laquelle les spécialistes de la sécurité des personnes et de la sûreté des installations désignent le comportement des hommes au travail. Il est …
England Made Me or The Shipwrecked is an early novel by Graham Greene. It was first published in 1935, and was republished as The Shipwrecked in 1953. It is set in Stockholm and concerns the travails of ne'er-do-well Anthony Farrant who finds himself working as a bodyguard to a dubious Swedish financier whose …
The Comedians is a novel by Graham Greene. Set in Haiti under the rule of François "Papa Doc" Duvalier and his secret police, the Tonton Macoute, the novel explores the political suppression and terrorism through the figure of an English hotel owner, Brown. The story begins as three men: Brown, Smith, an "innocent" …