The Collected Plays of Graham Greene: The Living Room;the Potting Shed;the Complaisant Lover;Carving a Statue;the Return of a.J. Raffles;the Great ... (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.) - Softcover

Greene, Graham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014018614X ISBN 13: 9780140186147

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1995

Synopsis

A reissue of a volume of Graham Greene's eight plays: "The Return of A.J. Raffles", "Carving a Statue", "The Complaisant Lover", "The Living Room", "The Potting Shed", "Yes and No", "For Whom the Bell Chimes" and "The Great Jowett".

About this title

Book Description

'Greene's speed and economy, his uncanny gift for idiom, his skill in setting an atmosphere and developing suspense, are all masterly' Guardian

About the Author

Graham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in 1940 became literary editor of the Spectator. He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 014018614X
• ISBN 13: 9780140186147
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416