

Brighton Rock
Author: Graham Greene
Narrator: Richard Brown
Unabridged: 9 hr 46 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 03/03/2011
Author: Graham Greene
Narrator: Richard Brown
Unabridged: 9 hr 46 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 03/03/2011
Graham Greene (1904-1991) is recognized as one of the most important writers of the twentieth century, achieving both literary acclaim and popular success. His best-known works include Brighton Rock, The Heart of the Matter, The Quiet American, and The Power and the Glory. After leaving Oxford, Greene first pursued a career in journalism before dedicating himself full-time to writing with his first big success, Stamboul Train. He became involved in screenwriting and wrote adaptations for the cinema as well as original screenplays, the most successful being The Third Man. Religious, moral, and political themes are at the root of much of his work, and throughout his life he traveled to some of the wildest and most volatile parts of the world, which provided settings for his fiction. Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour.
The story is set in Brighton, a Coney Island type beach resort a day-trip by train from London. Pinkie, a young man who is pure evil, is in control of a mob-like gang. It was never quite clear to me where the actual money comes from but it appears they are making money off the numbers racket or ille......more
A great story! Fine writing! Let me begin by saying that this novel draws some materials from Greene's A Gun for Sale. Since I have not read this novel, I do not know the exact relationship between the two books, but I can tell you that this book can be read as a standalone. The edition I read feature......more
A near-perfect noir. The Cohen Bros. looked at this type of literature for the basis for "Fargo." Just like that movie, this book takes you inside a world of misfits and fragmented members of a clandestine group: very disorganized mobsters. The bad guys are protagonists & the heroine is (unlike the......more
"The sinner is at the very heart of Christianity. Nobody is so competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. Nobody, except the saint"—Charles Péguy. This is the epigraph to Graham Greene's novel The Heart of the Matter (1951) “It didn't matter anyway. . . he wasn't made for peace, he couldn't......more