Third Man In Havana

Author : Tom Rodwell
Publisher : Icon Books Ltd
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781906850357

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Third Man in Havana by Tom Rodwell Pdf

When Tom Rodwell embarked on a cricketing tour of India, he had only ever thought of the game as great fun. But the simple joy of the local street kids when his team donated their kit to them made him realise that it could be more than that. By turns touching and amusing, and imbued with a deep love of the game, Third Man in Havana is the story of the charity cricket programmes 'Major' Tom Rodwell has helped run around the world, and of the people he has encountered along the way. From Be'er Sheva Cricket Club pavilion in Israel – a converted nuclear bomb shelter, useful in the face of Hamas' regular rocket attacks – to a game of tapeball cricket with ex-Tamil Tiger child soldiers behind barbed wire in Sri Lanka, Rodwell discovered that the heart of the game is beating fast in countries more used to conflict than cricket. Third Man in Havana is a wonderfully positive story, revealing that the spirit of cricket is alive and well.

Author : Graham Greene
Publisher : Collector's Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1509828044

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Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene Pdf

Life in pre-revolutionary Cuba is not easy and James Wormold, a failing vacuum cleaner salesman, is struggling to fund the increasingly lavish lifestyle of his manipulative sixteen year-old daughter, Milly. So when an enigmatic Englishman offers him an extra income in return for a little spying, he is sorely tempted. But when the fake reports he's been sending to London start to come true, Havana suddenly becomes a very dangerous place indeed. Both a brilliant Cold War thriller and hilarious work of satire, Our Man in Havana is Graham Greene's classic tale of an accidental spy.

Author : Graham Greene
Publisher : Random House
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473523913

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The Third Man by Graham Greene Pdf

Experience the thrilling search for the Third Man as you follow Harry Lime through the gloomy and treacherous streets of Vienna, a city divided by war and corruption. This undisputed spy classic is now available for the first time with video and photography from the film that inspired the novel. In this innovative new format, readers can see the development of Greene’s masterful writing in the original script of the movie, with extra content showcasing the film’s distinctive soundtrack and Oscar-winning cinematography. See clips and photos of Orson Welles embodying one of his most iconic characters alongside the text at key points. The unparalleled film and archive materials add new layers to the characters and the mystery at the heart of the story. This is a special digital edition to celebrate Studio Canal's restored edition of the film. It includes: - An array of film clips and stills embedded in the text of the novel - A large selection of behind-the-scenes photos from the archive, including candid photos of Orson Welles and the cast on set - Scans of the original post-production script

Author : Christopher Hull
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781643131016

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Our Man Down in Havana by Christopher Hull Pdf

When U.S. immigration authorities deported Graham Greene from Puerto Rico in 1954, the British author made an unplanned visit to Havana and the former MI6 officer had stumbled upon the ideal setting for a comic espionage story. Three years later, he returned in the midst of Castro’s guerrilla insurgency against a U.S.-backed dictator to begin writing his iconic novel Our Man in Havana. Twelve weeks after its publication, in January 1959, the Cuban Revolution triumphed, soon transforming a capitalist playground into a communist stronghold.Combining biography, history, politics, and a measure of psychoanalysis, Our Man Down in Havana investigates the real story behind Greene’s fiction. It includes his many visits to a pleasure island that became a revolutionary island, turning his chance involvement into a political commitment. His Cuban novel describes an amateur agent who dupes his intelligence chiefs with invented reports about “concrete platforms and unidentifiable pieces of giant machinery.” With eerie prescience, Greene’s satirical tale had foretold the Cold War’s most perilous episode, the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

Author : Graham Greene
Publisher : Random House
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781407086767

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The Third Man and The Fallen Idol by Graham Greene Pdf

'Graham Greene has wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the top ranks of world literature' John le Carré The Third Man, Graham Greene's most iconic tale, takes place in post-war Vienna, a 'smashed dreary city' occupied by the four Allied powers. Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless to visit his friend and hero, Harry Lime. But Harry has died in suspicious circumstances, and the police are closing in on his associates... The Fallen Idol is the chilling story of a small boy caught up in the games that adults play. Left in the care of the butler and his wife whilst his parents go on a fortnight's holiday, Philip realises too late the danger of lies and deceit. But the truth is even deadlier. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IAN THOMSON

Author : Graham Greene
Publisher : Collector's Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1509828052

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The Third Man and Other Stories by Graham Greene Pdf

A broad selection of Graham Greene's masterful short stories, including Cold War classic novella, The Third Man. Rollo Martins, a failing novelist, is invited to Vienna by his best friend, Harry Lime. The city he arrives in is unrecognisable -- torn apart by the Second World War and shared between the occupying Allies. What's more, Harry is dead, and the circumstances look suspicious... Determined to uncover the truth, Martins must pick through the rubble of this broken city in search of answers.

Author : Dermot Gilvary,Darren J. N. Middleton
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441164162

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Dangerous Edges of Graham Greene by Dermot Gilvary,Darren J. N. Middleton Pdf

Author : Graham Greene,Carol Reed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015060770073

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The Third Man by Graham Greene,Carol Reed Pdf

Author : Brian Diemert
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780773514324

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Graham Greene's Thrillers and the 1930s by Brian Diemert Pdf

In Graham Greene's Thrillers and the 1930s Brian Diemert examines the first and most prolific phase of Graham Greene's career, demonstrating the close relationship between Greene's fiction and the political, economic, social, and literary contexts of the period. Situating Greene alongside other young writers who responded to the worsening political climate of the 1930s by promoting social and political reform, Diemert argues that Greene believed literature could not be divorced from its social and political milieu and saw popular forms of writing as the best way to inform a wide audience. Diemert traces Greene's adaptation of nineteenth-century romance thrillers and classical detective stories into modern political thrillers as a means of presenting serious concerns in an engaging fashion. He argues that Greene's popular thrillers were in part a reaction to the high modernism of writers such as James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf, whose esoteric experiments with language were disengaged from immediate social concerns and inaccessible to a large segment of the reading public.

Author : A. F. Cassis
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810814188

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Graham Greene by A. F. Cassis Pdf

Covers fifty years of criticism of Graham Greene, a leading man of letters on the English literary scene.

Author : Graham Greene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:49015001344614

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Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene Pdf

Author : Maurice Greene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Authors
ISBN : OCLC:801412497

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The Third Man ; And, The Fallen Idol by Maurice Greene Pdf

Author : Graham Greene
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0878055509

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Conversations with Graham Greene by Graham Greene Pdf

This collection of seventeen interviews covers fifty years. Here the eminent author of The Power and the Glory, The Third Man, and The Heart of the Matter speaks of himself, his life, and his works. Though reluctant to be interviewed, especially by an academic or journalist he did not know, Greene was more at ease in an interview with a personal friend, who he felt would be less likely to misunderstand or misquote him. Yet even his good friend V. S. Pritchett spent considerable time trying to pin him down for his 1978 interview. When he finally did arrange an interview, Pritchett tells that Greene's "flat conspiratorial, laughing voice . . ., of itself, makes him the best company I've known in the last forty years". Other interviewers--included here are V. S. Naipaul and Penelope Gilliatt--shared Pritchett's opinion, but many found that he avoided idle conversation for fear that his words would be misconstrued. Greene's anxiety was not without foundation. In an interview with Michael Menshaw, Greene explained: "It's got so I hate to say who I am or what I believe...A few years ago I told an interviewer I'm a gnostic. The next day's newspaper announced that I had become an agnostic". After such incidents, Greene turned to the anecdote--relating an experience with Fidel Castro or with Papa Doc Duvalier--to communicate in interviews with strangers. Nevertheless, in all the interviews Greene granted over the years, the reader hears very clearly the voice of a man whose conversation is as painfully honest and unpretentious as is his written prose. The interviews here are divided chronologically into four periods, loosely related to his subject matter or to his reputation at the time of theinterview. Thus the reader sees the development of the writer from a callow but gifted young man into one of the foremost men of letters in the English-speaking world.

Author : James Dunkerley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : South America
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173010056120

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The Third Man by James Dunkerley Pdf

Author : Leonardo Padura
Publisher : Bitter Lemon Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781904738886

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Havana Gold by Leonardo Padura Pdf

Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The fourth of the Havana Quartet series.