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Cover art: Paul Hogarth
Blurb: “This book contains all the essays Graham Greene wishes to preserve
Many included in
The Lost Childhood now reappear, often revised or expanded, while over a third are collected for the first time.
The first essay describes how Marjorie
Bowen's Viper of Milan inspired Mr Greene to begin to write at fourteen; the last, his return in 1968 to Sierra Leone, the 'soupsweet' setting of The Heart of the Matter.
In between are nearly eighty essays, as fresh, acute and concise in their assessment of little-read writers as of best-sellers - 'It has never been Maugham's characters that we have remembered so much as the narrator with his contempt for human life, his honesty'. Of Philby he writes: 'Moral judgements are singularly out of place in espionage'; Louis B. Mayer he characterizes as the voice of American capital itself
In all, this magnificent collection sheds much light on Graham Greene's own work as a novelist.”