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Greene, Graham

Collected Essays, [1] 39; Journey without Maps, [18] 70; Stamboul Train, [22] 7; A Sort of Life, [27] 12; (ed.): The Old School, [59] 62

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20220819171033 Graham Greene, A Sort of Life | From the Slightly Foxed bookshelves

A Sort of Life | From the Slightly Foxed bookshelves

Graham Greene once said that writing A Sort of Life, this memoir of his early life, ‘was in the nature of a psychoanalysis. I made a long journey through time and I was one of my characters.’ Certainly the younger self that emerges is as complex and intriguing as any of those he created in his novels. There can be no more fascinating or illuminating account of what it takes to become a writer. We’re delighted to report that this classic memoir will be available to readers again. We first published it in our series of Slightly Foxed Editions more than a decade ago, and it proved so popular that it soon sold out. However, we are now reissuing it in a handsome hardback Plain Foxed Edition.
20080601140757 Daniel Macklin illustration - Jeremy Lewis on Graham Greene, Slightly Foxed Issue 18

Greene but Colourful

Jeremy Lewis on Graham Greene, Journey without Maps

For the past couple of years I’ve been researching a book about the Greene family. The Greene King brewery, on which its fortunes are based, dates back to the Napoleonic period, but since I’m allergic to dynastic histories I’ve decided to concentrate on one generation: Graham Greene’s siblings and first cousins, all of whom grew up in the same small town in the early years of the last century.
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The Perfect Spy

Frances Donnelly on Graham Greene, A Sort of Life

‘I have tried, however unsuccessfully, to live again the follies and sentimentalities and exaggerations of the distant time, and to feel them, as I felt them then, without irony,’ wrote Graham Greene in the foreword to his memoir of his early years. And for an admirer like myself, A Sort of Life, written with the transparent simplicity that makes his prose so intensely his own, is seminal in understanding the early experiences that shaped Greene’s character and writing.
20180901154305 Anthony Powell - Patrick Welland on Graham Greene, SF Issue 59

In a Class of Their Own

Patrick Welland on Graham Greene (ed.), The Old School

The Old School is made up of seventeen essays by writers who achieved literary distinction later in life, though some are all but forgotten today. Apart from Auden, still familiar names include Harold Nicolson, H. E. Bates, Anthony Powell, Elizabeth Bowen and Stephen Spender. Less well remembered are the South African novelist and poet William Plomer and the novelist and film critic E. Arnot Robertson.

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