Graham Greene

Otec Quijote, skromný španielsky kňaz menovaný na monsignora, sa v neblahom očakávaní preloženia na iné pôsobisko vydáva na cestu naprieč krajinou. Spoločnosť mu robí bývalý komunistický starosta prezývaný Sancho a namiesto slávneho rytierskeho koňa ich vezie staručký Seat 600. Výbavou sú im víno, knihy a nekonečné rozhovory o Bohu, politike, pravde i ľudskej slabosti. Graham Greene rozohráva duchaplnú literárnu jazdu plnú drobných dobrodružstiev, nedorozumení a jemnej irónie. Otec Quijote a Sancho stoja na opačných stranách svetonázorovej barikády, no práve ich pochybnosti a rozdielne názory sa stávajú hnacím motorom úprimných dialógov, ktoré dokážu ľudí zblížiť väčšmi než prázdne pritakávanie. Monsignor Quijote je múdry, láskavý a vtipný román o nepravdepodobnom priateľstve, odvahe klásť otázky a schopnosti počúvať človeka, s ktorým nesúhlasíme. Na Cervantesovho Dona Quijota odkazuje s ľahkosťou a bez literárnej okázalosti – rytierske dobrodružstvo premieňa na cestu dvoch mužov, ktorí namiesto súbojov zvádzajú poctivé rozhovory o viere, politike a živote. Kniha je určená tým, ktorí majú radi s ľahkosťou podané, no nemenej hĺbavé príbehy o hodnotách, viere a ľudských vzťahoch.

Graham Greene’s iconic thriller – a shocking tale of espionage and deceit, told from amongst the smouldering ruins of war-torn Europe. Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless in post-war Vienna to visit his friend and hero, Harry Lime. But Harry has died in suspicious circumstances, and the police are closing in on his associates... BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days

Graham Greene, known for his iconic novels, also wrote exceptional short stories. Here the some of the best have been arranged into pairs - to be read as a duel or duet - by novelist and Greene aficionado, Yiyun Li.Twenty-two of Greene’s very best stories are collected here, each of them bearing the hallmark themes that characterise his great novels: innocence and vengeance, love and hate, pity and violence.Writer and Greene aficionado, Yiyun Li, has arranged the stories into pairs, to be read together in contrast or in harmony – as a duel or a duet. In doing so Li draws out the extraordinary power in Greene’s work, creating an ingenious new perspective on a writer we thought we knew. Unexpected, surprising and wide-ranging, this is the short fiction of one of the twentieth century’s greatest and most adored storytellers, revealing his brilliance as never before.''One of the most important British writers of the twentieth century'' Daily TelegraphSELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY YIYUN LI

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. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, to travel to Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay, and a shiftless, twilight society of hippies, war criminals, CIA men that will help Henry come alive after a dull suburban life.

Děje se v Mexiku v první třetině 20. století, v době tvrdého pronásledování katolické církve. Kostely jsou zavřeny, biskupové a kněží vyhnáni nebo popraveni.

Audiokniha Lidský faktor, kterou napsal Graham Greene. Rozhlasová dramatizace špionážního románu. Nahrávka z roku 1993 v režii Jana Bergera.

The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists, rich in exactly etched and moving portraits of real human beings' V. S. Pritchett, The Times 'A superb storyteller with a gift for provoking controversy' New York Times 'Graham Greene had w it and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature' John le Carre --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

"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 in a West African coastal town. Scobie is bound by strict integrity to his role as assistant police commissioner and by severe responsibility to his wife, Louise, for whom he cares with a fatal pity. When Scobie falls in love with the young widow Helen, he finds vital passion again yielding to pity, integrity giving way to deceit and dishonor a vortex leading directly to murder. As Scobie's world crumbles, his personal crisis develops the foundation of a story by turns suspenseful, fascinating, and, finally, tragic. Originally published in 1948, "The Heart of the Matter "is the unforgettable portrait of one man flawed yet heroic, destroyed and redeemed by a terrible conflict of passion and faith. This Penguin Deluxe Edition features an introduction by James Wood. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators."

"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look ahead..." "This is a record of hate far more than of love," writes Maurice Bendrix in the opening passages of The End of the Affair, and it is a strange hate indeed that compels him to set down the retrospective account of his adulterous affair with Sarah Miles. Now, a year after Sarah's death, Bendrix seeks to exorcise the persistence of his passion by retracing its course from obsessive love to love-hate. At first, he believes he hates Sarah and her husband, Henry. Yet as he delves further into his emotional outlook, Bendrix's hatred shifts to the God he feels has broken his life, but whose existence at last comes to recognize. Originally published in 1951, The End of the Affair was acclaimed by William Faulkner as "for me one of the best, most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody's language." This Penguin Deluxe Edition features an introduction by Michael Gorra. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

""The purser took the last landing-card in his hand and watched the passengers cross the wet quay, over a wilderness of rails and points, round the corners of abandoned trucks."" As the Orient Express hurtles across Europe on its three-day journey from Ostend to Constantinople, its voyage binds together the lives of several of its passengers in a fateful interlock. The menagerie of characters includes Coral Musker, a beautiful chorus girl; Carleton Myatt, a rich Jewish businessman; Richard John, a mysterious and kind doctor returning to his native Belgrade; the spiteful journalist Mabel Warren; and Josef Grunlich, a cunning, murderous burglar. What happens to these strangers as they put on and take off their masks of identity and passion, all the while confessing, prevaricating, and reaching out to one another in the "veracious air" of the onrushing train, makes for one of Graham Greene's most exciting and suspenseful stories. Originally published in 1933, Orient Express was Greene's first major success. This Penguin Deluxe Edition features an introduction by Christopher Hitchens. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators."

Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman, was short of money. His daughter had reached an expensive age - so he accepted Hawthorne's offer of $300-plus a month and became Agent 59200/5, M. I.6's man in Havana. To keep the job, Wormold pretends to recruit sub-agents and sends fake stories. Then the stories start coming disturbingly true...

With a new introduction by James WoodScobie, a police officer serving in a wartime west-African state, is distrusted — being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in so doing, he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.