The Life Of Graham Greene Volume Two: 1939-1955 PDF
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Contents Cover About the Book About the Author Illustrations Dedication Title Page Epigraph Seeking Greene Before the War: 1904–1939 PART 1 – War 1. Rumours at Nightfall 2. Enter Dorothy 3. The Ministry and the Glory 4. The Blitz 5. The Destructors 6. Trivial Comedies, Shallow Tragedies PART 2 – Africa 7. School for Spies 8. Return to Africa 9. The Soupsweet Land 10. Our Man in Freetown 11. A Mad Cook, a Suicide and a Nest of Toads PART 3 – The Long War Ending 12. Carving Brighton Rock 13. Agents Three: Greene, Muggeridge and Philby 14. From Spy to Publisher 15. The Unquiet Peace PART 4 – Time of Catherine 16. The Heart of the Matter 17. The Third Man and Other Friends 18. Love as a Fever 19. Private Wars 20. A Vulgar Success 21. Boston Tea Party 22. Wildly, Crazily, Hopelessly PART 5 – The Death Seeker 23. War of the Running Dogs 24. Bonjour Saigon 25. Interlude on Elsewhere 26. A Crown of Thorns 27. A Quiet American 28. Innocence Abroad 29. Death in rue Catinat PART 6 – To America with Love 30. Visa Not for Sale 31. Drama and the Man 32. Among the Mau Mau 33. No Man Is Neutral 34. The Honourable Correspondent and the Dishonourable Friend 35. White Night in Albany Picture Section Notes Acknowledgments Index Copyright About the Book The years from 1939 to 1955 proved to be the most prolific of Graham Greene's life. In The Life of Graham Greene, Volume II, Norman Sherry continues his engrossing account, delving deeply and emerging with a portrait of the author at the height of both his spying and literary careers. Greene produced some of his best novels during this time – The Heart of the Matter, The End of the Affair, The Quiet American – and saw the filming of The Fallen Idol and The Third Man. The same period encompasses his passionate affair with the beautiful American Catherine Watson, who was married to a British peer, the disintegration of his marriage, his long relationship with Dorothy Glover, his activities as a secret agent and his forays into the conflicts in Kenya, Malaya, and French Indo-China. As with The Life of Graham Greene, Volume I: 1904- 1939, Norman Sherry succeeds in unlocking the mystery of Greene’s character and the alchemic nature of his creative genius. About the Author Norman Sherry, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Literature at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, was already an accomplished biographer when Graham Greene, having read Professor Sherry’s work on Joseph Conrad, asked a mutual friend to introduce them. Greene was impressed by Professor Sherry’s method of ‘literary detection’, and their meeting resulted in Greene asking Professor Sherry to write his authorised biography, an exhausting but fascinating task which has resulted in The Life of Graham Greene, Volumes 1, 2 and 3. Professor Sherry’s books on Conrad, Conrad’s Eastern World, Conrad’s Western World, and Conrad and His World, are, thirty years after their publication, still quoted by scholars as the standard texts on Joseph Conrad. Professor Sherry honed his skills as a biographer with Charlotte and Emily Brontë and Jane Austen. Professor Sherry received an Edgar Allan Poe Award for The Life of Graham Greene, Volume One: 1904–1939. The Life of Graham Greene, Volume Two: 1939–1955 was designated as ‘One of the best eleven books of 1995’ by the editorial staff of the New York Times Book Review, who confirmed their admiration by featuring Volume Two in Books of the Century: A Hundred Years of Authors, Ideas, and Literature (1998). Illustrations PLATES 1 Greene with the Finnish edition of Brighton Rock 2 London in the blitz 3–4 14 North Side before it was hit by a bomb and shored up afterwards 5 Greene in London, 1945 6 Catherine Walston’s christening 7 Dorothy Glover and Harry Walston 8 Greene at the City hotel in Freetown, Sierra Leone 9 Freetown 10–12 Agents three: Graham Greene, Kim Philby and Malcolm Muggeridge 13 Carol Reed discussing a script with Graham Greene 14 The giant Ferris wheel in Vienna 15 A kiosk entrance to the Viennese sewers 16 Joseph Cotton and Orson Welles in The Third Man 17 Greene with François Mauriac 18 Correcting The Heart of the Matter at Thriplow 19 Catherine Walston 20 Catherine Walston, Greene’s ‘Bacall profile’ 21 Greene on Capri 22 Greene and Catherine at Anacapri 23 Greene with John Hayward at Thriplow 24 Norman Douglas with Graham Greene 25 Greene at Achill, County Mayo 26 Greene and Catherine on Capri 27 The Elsewhere, Alexander Korda’s yacht 28 Alexander Korda with Graham Greene 29 With Catherine aboard the Elsewhere at Antibes 30 Catherine as barber 31 In Malaya with Major McGregor Cheers and two gurkhas 32 The Continental Palace hotel in Saigon 33 In an opium fumerie 34–5 On patrol with French troops at Phat Diem 36 René Berval’s apartment on rue Catinat 37 Phuong and René Berval with their black dog 38 Larry Allen, the original for Granger 39 Greene with Colonel Leroy and Leo Hochstetter 40 The bell tower at Phat Diem 41 Phat Diem: ‘The canal was full of bodies’ 42 A ceremony at the Cao Dai temple 43 Dedan Kimathi, leader of the Mau Mau 44 Greene at a wild animal farm in Kenya 45–7 Death in rue Catinat: the massive bomb explosion outside the Continental Palace hotel 48 Greene in Saigon with the Mathieu sisters 49 The bishop of Phat Diem and Trevor Wilson 50 Charlie and Oona Chaplin with Catherine Walston and Graham Greene at Vevey 51 Our Man in Havana LINE ILLUSTRATIONS Greene’s identity card for Sierra Leone Greene and Douglas Jerrold at Eyre & Spottiswoode The giant Ferris wheel in Vienna General de Lattre de Tassigny Greene on stage with Eric Portman and Dorothy Tutin during rehearsals for The Living Room PICTURE CREDITS Every effort has been made to obtain the necessary permissions with reference to copyright material. The publishers apologise if inadvertently any sources remain unacknowledged. Associated Press, pl. 43; British Film Institute, pl. 16; Larry Burrows/LIFE Magazine/© Time Warner Inc., pl. 13; Bonte Duran, pl. 19 (studio portrait by Harlip); Carole Foote, pls. 14, 15, 36, 41, 42; Special Collections Division, Georgetown University Library, Washington D.C., pls. 1 (photograph by Douglas Glass, © J.C.C. Glass), 10, 21 (photograph by Islay Lyons), 23, 24 (photograph by Islay Lyons), 25, 27, 34 (Leitation Photos); Graham Greene, pls. 8, 9, 18, 22 (photograph by Islay Lyons), 26 (photograph by Islay Lyons), 29, 30, 31, 35, 37, 40, 44, 48, 49, 50; Vivien Greene, pl. 4; Genevieve Hochstetter, pl. 39; Hulton Deutsch Collection, pls. 2, 11, 12 and image here; Copyright © J- P Kernot, pl. 5 (photograph by Bill Brandt); Michael Korda, pl. 28; Tom Peck, pls. 38, 45–7; William Scanlan, Jnr., pl. 32; Peter Stackpole/LIFE Magazine/© Time Warner Inc., pl. 51; Belinda Straight, pl. 20 (studio portrait by Harlip); Sud-Est Asiatique July 1951, pl. 33; the Reverend Vincent Turner, pl. 6; Oliver Walston, pl. 7. for Max Senyi, a great bookman Harry Smith, a true gentleman Ian Watt, a superb scholar The Life of Graham Greene Volume Two: 1939–1955 Norman Sherry
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