グレアム・グリーン

"I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused," Graham Greene's narrator Fowler remarks of Alden Pyle, the eponymous "Quiet American" of what is perhaps the most controversial novel of his career. Pyle is the brash young idealist sent out by Washington on a mysterious mission to Saigon, …

『情事の終り'』は、イギリスの作家グレアム・グリーンの1951年の小説。 第二次世界大戦直後のロンドンを舞台とし、作家モーリス・ベンドリクス、サラ·マイルズ、そしてサラの夫である公務員ヘンリー・マイルの三角関係を中心に、強迫観念、嫉妬と疑惑をあつかう。 イギリスの聖職者たちと次々にセックスをしてスキャンダルを巻き起こしたレディ・キャサリン・ウォルストンとの実際の浮気にもとづいている。 小説の英国版は「C」に捧げられており、「C」は「キャサリン」を意味する。 …

『権力と栄光』は、1940年に出版されたグレアム・グリーンによる長編小説である。英国ではこの題名だったが、米国では『迷路のような道』という題名で出版された。

Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts. His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he's tempted. In return all he has to do is file a few reports. But when his fake reports start coming true things suddenly get …

Brighton Rock is a novel by Graham Greene, published in 1938 and later adapted for film in 1947 and 2010. The novel is a murder thriller set in 1930s Brighton. The title refers to a confectionery traditionally sold at seaside resorts and is used as a metaphor for human character. There are links between this novel and …

Scobie is a principled police officer in a war-torn West African state. When he is passed over for promotion he is forced to borrow money to send his despairing wife away on a holiday. In her absence he falls in love with Helen and his life is transformed by the experience.

Travels with My Aunt is a novel written by English author Graham Greene. The novel follows the travels of Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, and his eccentric Aunt Augusta as they find their way across Europe, and eventually even further afield. Aunt Augusta pulls Henry away from his quiet suburban existence into …

The Comedians is a novel by Graham Greene. Set in Haiti under the rule of François "Papa Doc" Duvalier and his secret police, the Tonton Macoute, the novel explores the political suppression and terrorism through the figure of an English hotel owner, Brown. The story begins as three men: Brown, Smith, an "innocent" …

『ヒューマン・ファクター』は、グレアム・グリーンが1978年に発表したイギリスのスパイ小説である。 1979年に同名で映画化された。

Rollo Martins' usual line is the writing of cheap paperback Westerns under the name of Buck Dexter. But when his old friend Harry Lime invites him to Vienna, he jumps at the chance. With exactly five pounds in his pocket, he arrives only just in time to make it to his friend's funeral. The victim of an apparently …