Author: Graham Greene
Narrator: Joseph Porter
Unabridged: 11 hr 9 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 02/01/2011
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.
Our main character is a world weary drifter. The novel starts with him returning to Haiti on a cargo ship with just a handful of passengers. There are so few Europeans in Haiti that all these passengers and some of the crew enter the story again. Disengaged from his courtesan mother and even unsure......more
In need of respite from a run of poorly-written modern novels that were blinged up to the eyeballs with hype, I sought refuge in a Graham Greene one, knowing that elegant prose and grammatical excellence awaited me. Our narrator, Mr Brown, is a burnt-out international wheeler-dealer who returns to Ha......more
When people’s favourites come to power, they quite soon turn into sinister dictators… And all those who disagree with their unique role are just comedians that must exit stage and disappear… The ambassador said, ‘Come on, cheer up, let us all be comedians together. Take one of my cigars. Help yoursel......more
This is without exception my favorite Graham Greene novel. Love and murder in 1960's Haiti among the evil Papa Doc Duvalier's Tonton Macute. The evocation of landscape and murderous heat and voodoo would alone be enough to hold our attention. But there's more than that: there's a great story of intr......more
I love the novels styled by Graham Greene as 'entertainments' -Travels with my Aunt, The Quiet American and Our Man in Havana - so I was really looking forward to reading this one. Set in Haiti under the Papa Doc dictatorship, it offers all the quintessential Greene ingredients: an exotic location,......more