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  • Film Directors and Emotion
    Darragh Greene / Graham Price
    Cinema is an affective medium. Films move us to feel wonder, joy, and love as well as fear, anger, and hatred. Today, we are living through a new age of sensibility when emotion is given priority over reason. Yet, there is a counter-cultural current in contemporary American cinema that offers a more nuanced treatment of emotion. Both aesthetically and eidetically, this new c...
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    79,54 €

  • Reflections
    Graham Greene
    UPDATED AND EDITED WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JUDITH ADAMSONWhether reporting from the London cinema Cotswolds villages second-hand bookshops war zones or political trouble spots Graham Greene’s novelistic gifts for detail drama and compassionate curiosity provide unique and resonant insights into his life and times. To know war on any continent read A Memory of Indo-Chin...
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    24,23 €

  • The Lawless Roads
    Graham Greene
    In 1938 Graham Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico to discover the state of the country and its people in the aftermath of the brutal anti-clerical purges of President Calles. His journey took him through the tropical states of Chiapas and Tabasco where all the churches had been destroyed or closed and the priests driven out or shot. The experiences were the inspiration fo...
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    22,71 €

  • In Search Of a Character
    Graham Greene
    To Graham Greene ’Africa will always be the Africa of the Victorian atlas the blank unexplored continent the shape of the human heart.’ IN SEARCH OF A CHARACTER contains two African notebooks: Congo Journal which records Graham Greene’s travels in 1959 and his stay at the Yonda leper colony in the jungle which inspired the story for A Burnt-Out Case. Convoy to West Africa d...
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    18,46 €

  • Getting To Know The General
    Graham Greene
    ’In August 1981 my bag was packed for my fifth visit to Panama when the news came to me over the telephone of the death of General Omar Torrijos Herrera my friend and host. . . At that moment the idea came to me to write a short personal memoir. . . of a man I had grown to love over those five years’ GETTING TO KNOW THE GENERAL is Graham Greene’s account of a five-year persona...
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    23,96 €

  • The Power and the Glory
    Graham Greene
    ONE OF FIVE NEW VINTAGE FUTURE CLASSIC READING GUIDE EDITIONSDuring a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico a worldly priest the ’whisky priest’ is on the run. With the police closing in his routes of escape are being shut off his chances getting fewer. But compassion and humanity force him along the road to his destiny reluctant to abandon those who need him and t...
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    22,66 €

  • Our Man in Havana
    Graham Greene
    ’Listen. You’re a patriotic Englishman. Highly respected. Been here for years. A wide circle of influential friends. It is important that we have our man in Havana, Mr Wormwold.’Jim Wormwold, an under-employed vacuum cleaner salesman living in 1950s Cuba, is struggling to pay for his teenage daughter’s increasingly extravagant lifestyle. So when the British Secret Service asks ...
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    19,02 €

  • The Collected Plays
    Graham Greene
    The Living Room. The Potting Shed. The Complaisant Lover. Carving a Statue. The Return of A. J. Raffles. The Great Jowett. Yes and No. For Whom the Bell ChimesIn these eight plays Graham Greene one of the great writers of the twentieth century demonstrates his considerable skills as a dramatist. Each of them explores themes that were of fundamental importance to Greene and t...
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    23,18 €

  • Its A Battlefield
    Graham Greene
    Drover a Communist bus driver is in prison sentenced to death for killing a policeman during a riot at Hyde Park Corner. A battle for a reprieve with many participants ensues: the Assistant Commissioner high-principled and over-worked; Conrad a paranoid clerk; Mr Surrogate a rich Fabian; Condor a pathetic journalist feeding on fantasies; pretty promiscuous Kay - all hav...
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    19,32 €

  • Loser Takes All
    Graham Greene
    Bertram was not a believer in luck or superstitions. An unambitious assistant accountant his plans for his second marriage are typically quiet: St Luke’s Maida Hill then two weeks in Bournemouth. But then he comes to the attention of Dreuther the director of Bertram’s company who changes Bertram’s plans for him: wedding and honeymoon in Monte Carlo on board his private ya...
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    19,64 €

  • The End of The Affair
    Graham Greene
    Henry Miles, a civil servant, suspects that his wife Sarah is having an affair, and asks his writer friend Maurice Bendrix to contact a private investigator on his behalf. Maurice has a secret, however: he was once Sarah’s lover, and is equally keen to find out whether she was unfaithful to him too... An economical and intense adaptation.1 woman, 4 men, 1 boy, 5 women or men ...
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    18,64 €

  • May We Borrow Your Husband?
    Graham Greene
    Author William Harris is spending the fag-end of the season at Antibes finishing his first attempt at historical biography but he becomes more and more interested and involved in the antics of two homosexual interior decorators intent on stealing Poopy Travis’s honeymoon husband. Which leaves him free to fall in love with Poopy himself. A widow and a divorcee tipsily discuss ...
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    18,39 €

  • A Sense Of Reality
    Graham Greene
    A collection of four stories comprising ` Under The Garden’ (A short novel); `A Visit to the Morin’; Dream of a Strange Land’ and `A Discovery in the Woods’. In these four stories Graham Greene one of the master of modern English fiction has allowed himself the liberty of fantasy myth legend and dream. The results are quite simply superb. ...
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    19,70 €