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Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: This phantasmagoric study in terror is set in Second World War London. Arthur Rowe's mind is hamstrung by guilt — a Graham Greene speciality — and he stands aside from the war until he happens to guess both the true and the false weight of the cake at a charity fete. From that moment he is the quarry of malign and shadowy forces from which he tries to escape with a mind that is out of focus. The…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: A young boy, Victor, is collected from school by a stranger in a bowler hat — the stranger says he has won Victor in a game of backgammon with Victor's father. The stranger, known as the Captain, takes Victor to live with the sweet but withdrawn Lisa, where he serves as her conduit to the outside world. From mysterious beginnings, Graham Greene's final novel becomes a twisting thriller of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Brighton Rock was published in 1938, and made into a film in 2010. The novel is a murder thriller set in 1930s Brighton. Greene's iconic tale of the razor-wielding Pinkie is gripping and terrifying, an unputdownable read.

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Graham Greene's 'long journey through time' began in 1904, when he was born into a tribe of Greenes based in Berkhamstead at the public school where his father was headmaster. In A Sort of Life Greene recalls schooldays and Oxford, adolescent encounters with psychoanalysis and Russian roulette, his marriage and conversion to Catholicism, and how he rashly resigned from The Times when his first…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Quelle étrange affaire se cache derrière la mort de Harry Lime? Et comment le colonel Calloway peut-il affirmer qu’il fut «le plusimmonde trafiquant du pire marché noir»? Autant de questions auxquelles Rollo Martins, le plus vieil ami de Harry, va tenter d’apporter des réponses. À moins que le mystérieux troisième homme ne soit le seul à connaître la…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: No Man's Land is a profoundly chilling tale of espionage, superstition, and betrayal, and bears all the hallmarks of Greene's most famous works. Arriving in the Harz Mountains, within striking distance of the Iron Curtain, 'civilian' Brown appears to be enjoying a small vacation. Yet one night he crosses into the Russian zone, claiming to be drawn to a site of Catholic pilgrimage. His cover is…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: His originality lay in his gifts as a traveller. He had the foreign ear and eye for the strangeness of ordinary life and its ordinary crises' V. S. Pritchett In 1936 Graham Greene set off to discover Liberia, a remote and unfamiliar West African republic founded for released slaves. Crossing the red-clay terrain from Sierra Leone to the coast of Grand Bassa with a chain of porters, he came to…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: No Man's Land is a profoundly chilling tale of espionage, superstition, and betrayal, and bears all the hallmarks of Greene's most famous works. Arriving in the Harz Mountains, within striking distance of the Iron Curtain, 'civilian' Brown appears to be enjoying a small vacation. Yet one night he crosses into the Russian zone, claiming to be drawn to a site of Catholic pilgrimage. His cover is…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art of pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a 'burnt-out case', a leper who has gone through a stage of mutilation. However, as Querry loses himself in work for the lepers his disease of mind slowly approaches a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 493 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 294) Аннотация: The centenary edition with a new introduction by Paul Theroux: three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti. Hiding behind their actors' masks, they hesitate on the edge of life — afraid of love, afraid of pain, afraid of fear itself.