Graham Greene

Broschiertes Buch

A Burnt-out Case

Beschreibung

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GILES FODENQuerry, 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', a leper mutilated by disease and amputation.

Autor

Graham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in 1940 became literary editor of the Spectator. He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991.

Produktdetails

• Vintage Classics
• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 544950
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 160g
• ISBN-13: 9780099478430
• ISBN-10: 0099478439
• Artikelnr.: 22134475

Rezensionen

No serious writer of this century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than did Graham Greene The Time