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Prolific English novelist (1904-1991). Born Henry Graham Greene in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire.
His novels are written in a contemporary realistic style, often featuring characters troubled by self-doubt and living in seedy or rootless circumstances. The doubts were often of a religious nature, perhaps echoing the author's Roman Catholic beliefs.
Verse
- Bubbling April 1925
Novels
- The Man Within 1925
- The Name of Action 1930
- Rumour at Nightfall 1932
- Stamboul Train 1932
- It's a Battlefield 1934
- England Made Me 1935
- Brighton Rock 1938
- The Power and the Glory 1940
- The Heart of the Matter 1948
- The Quiet American 1955
- The Third Man 1950 (for a film by Carol Reed)
- The End of the Affair 1951
- Our Man in Havana 1958
- A Burnt-Out Case 1961
- The Comedians 1965
- Travels with My Aunt 1969
- The Honorary Consul 1973
- The Human Factor 1978
- Doctor Fischer of Geneva 1980
- Monsignor Quixote 1982
- The Captain and the Enemy 1982
Autobiography
- A Sort of Life 1971 (autobiography)
- Ways of Escape 1980 (autobiography)
Travel Books
- Journey Without Maps 1936
- The Lawless Roads 1939
- In Search of a Character: Two African Journals 1961
Plays
- The Living Room 1953
- The Potting Shed 1957
- The Complaisant Lover 1959