Autor Graham Greene
Tento soubor podnětných esejů vynikajícího anglického prozaika Grahama Greena vyšel česky již v roce 1970 péčí nakladatelství Vyšehrad. Naše nové vydání dávno nedostupného titulu zpřístupňuje i původně vynechané texty: proslov Ctnost neloajálnosti přednesený…
Raven is a ruthless assassin, a hired killer, whose cold-blooded murder of the Minister for War will have violent repercussions across Europe.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOODScobie, a police officer serving in a war-time West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes…
'Graham Greene's beautiful and disturbing novel is filled with tenderness, humour, excitement and doubt' The Times A leak is traced to a small sub-section of the secret service, sparking off the inevitable security checks, tensions and suspicions.
This is the story of Francis Andrews, a young man whose betrayal of his fellow smugglers has left a man dead. Fearing vengeance, he flees and takes refuge in the house of a young, isolated woman who persuades him to give evidence against his accomplices…
Driven away from his parish by a censorious bishop, Monsignor Quixote sets off across Spain accompanied by a deposed renegade mayor as his own Sancho Panza, and his noble steed Rocinante - a faithful but antiquated SEAT 600. Like Cervantes's classic,…
"Wilson sat on the balcony of the Bedford Hotel with his bald pink knees thrust against the ironwork..."" Graham Greene's masterpiece, "The Heart of the Matter," tells the story of a good man enmeshed in love, intrigue, and evil…
On the occasion of VINTAGE's 30th anniversary rediscover the ten bestselling Vintage Classics of all time in beautiful new editions... WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J. M.COETZEEA gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old…
Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral.…
Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a 'burnt-out case',…
Doctor Fischer despises the human race. When the notorious toothpaste millionaire decides to hold the last of his famous parties - his own deadly version of the Book of Revelations - Greene opens up a powerful vision of the limitless greed of the rich.…
Pinkie Brown, a neurotic teenage gangster wielding a razor blade and a bottle of sulfuric acid, commits a brutal murder - but it does not go unnoticed. Rose, a naive young waitress at a rundown cafe, has the unwitting power to destroy his crucial alibi,…
Měl to být příjemný den uprostřed charitativní akce uprostřed válečných let. Arthur Rowe se těšil.Všechno se ale odehrálo jinak. Stačila jedna věta, jedna návštěva u tajemné kartářky, jeden vyhraný dort – a život nenápadného muže se mění od základů:…
Děje se v Mexiku v první třetině 20. století, v době tvrdého pronásledování katolické církve. Kostely jsou zavřeny, biskupové a kněží vyhnáni nebo popraveni. Sloužení mše a udělování svátostí se stávají hrdelním zločinem. Před revoluční mocí prchá poslední…
Slavný Greenův román je zasazen do dusné, paranoidní atmosféry panující v Evropě před druhou světovou válkou; sledujeme v něm hořce ironický životní příběh nájemného vraha Ravena, jehož citu pro spravedlnost se bolestně dotkne, že byl svými zaměstnavateli…
Life in pre-revolutionary Cuba is not easy and James Wormold, a failing vacuum cleaner salesman, is struggling to fund the increasingly lavish lifestyle of his manipulative sixteen year-old daughter, Milly. So when an enigmatic Englishman offers him…
Discover Graham Greene’s blackly comic and timely espionage thriller, set amid the vice and squalor of pre-revolutionary Havana.‘British Intelligence being sent up something rotten’ Daily TelegraphWormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power…
It is 1941 and bombs have turned London into the front line of a world war. In the shadows of the Blitz, Hitler's agents are running a blackmail operation to obtain documents that could bring the nation to instant defeat. Arthur Rowe, a man once convicted…
During 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…
Rollo Martins, a failing novelist, is invited to Vienna by his best friend, Harry Lime. The city he arrives in is unrecognizable - torn apart by the Second World War and shared between the occupying Allies. What's more, Harry is dead, and the circumstances…
The stories in this text, all written between 1929 and 1954, share the themes that feature so strongly in Graham Greene's novels: humour and violence, pity and hatred, betrayal and pursuit. They recount tales of indiscretions revealed and secrets uncovered.
Greenovo „srdce temnoty“ z roku 1961 rozehrává věčná témata svatosti, povolání, lásky, víry a zoufalství s mistrovstvím, pro něž bývá právem nazýván Dostojevským dvacátého století. V autobiografické knize Úniky (Kalich 2006) Greene v souvislosti s Vyhaslým…