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The second season of the US sci-fi drama that follows the attempts
of Lawkeeper Joshua Nolan (Grant Bowler) to keep the peace in the
futureworld frontier town of Defiance. In the near future, Earth's
landscape has been decimated after years of war with the Votans, an
alien race seeking a new home after their own star system was
destroyed in a stellar collision. With a ceasefire now in effect,
an itinerant Nolan returns to the ruins of his former home town of
St. Louis, now known as Defiance, accompanied by his adopted alien
daughter Irisa (Stephanie Leonidas), to help keep the former
warring factions apart. The episodes are: 'The Opposite of
Hallelujah', 'In My Secret Life', 'The Cord and the Ax', 'Beasts of
Burden', 'Putting the Damage On', 'This Woman's Work', 'If You
Could See Her Through My Eyes', 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem',
'Painted from Memory', 'Bottom of the World', 'Doll Parts', 'All
Things Must Pass' and 'I Almost Prayed'.
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, and a truly gripping read. Designed to appeal to the
booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of
beautifully bound gift editions of much loved classic titles.
In a cruel twist of irony, Texas-born Patricia Highsmith
(1921-1995) is being recognized only after her death for her
inestimable genius in her native land. With the savage humor of
Waugh and the macabre sensibility of Poe, she brought a distinctly
contemporary acuteness to her prolific body of noir fiction.
Including over 60 short stories written throughout her career,
collected together for the first time, The Selected Stories reveals
the stunning versatility and terrifying power of Highsmith's work.
These stories highlight the remarkable range of Highsmith's powers
her unique ability to quickly, almost imperceptibly, draw out the
mystery and strangeness of her subject, which appears achingly
ordinary to our naked eye. Whether writing about jaded wives or
household pets, Highsmith continually upsets our expectations and
presents a world frighteningly familiar to our own, where danger
lurks around every turn. Stories from The Animal-Lovers Book of
Beastly Murders portray, with incisive humor, the murderously
competitive desires of our most trusted companions. In this
viciously satirical reprise of Kafka, cats, dogs, and cockroaches
are no longer necessary aspects of a happy home but actually have
the power to destroy it. In the short sketches that make up the
Little Tales of Misogyny, Highsmith rediscovers predictable female
characters "The Dancer," "The Female Novelist," "The Prude" and,
through scathing humor, invests them with uniquely destructive
powers. As a writer, Highsmith was all too well aware of the stolid
patriarchal conventions that ruled her day her publisher rejected
her second book out of hand because of its homosexual content. She
is not a polemicist, but, as stories like "Oona the Jolly Cave
Woman" and "The Mobile Bed-Object" reveal, her bizarre, haunting
fiction continually betrays the inadequacy of our conventional
understanding of female character. Highsmith eventually moved away
from these coolly satiric, darkly comic exercises, and in her later
collections, The Black House, Slowly, Slowly in the Wind, and
Mermaids on the Golf Course, she uses the warm familiarities of
middle-class life the manicured lawns, the cozy uptown apartments,
the local pubs as the backbone for her chilling portrayals. "The
Black House," for instance, explores the small-town male
camaraderie and the destructive secret it masks: in this world, the
fact that everyone knows your name is more likely a curse than a
blessing. In the title story of the final collection presented
here, "Mermaids on a Golf-Course," a man's extraordinary brush with
death endows his everyday desires with fantastically devastating
consequences. In her later work, Highsmith adds a dimension of
penetrating psychological insight, evoked most vividly in stories
like "A Curious Suicide" and "The Stuff of Madness," where the
precarious line between fantasy and reality is blurred and we
experience the terrifying possibility of slipping between them.
Great writers view the world askew, and in their art they reflect
our world back to us, slightly distorted. The Selected Stories
reveals Highsmith's deft and exacting style, her incisive satirical
intelligence, and her faultless eye for depicting the inner
tremblings of human character. Her world remains all the more
frightening because we recognize it as our own.
It is 1941 and bombs have turned London into the front line of a
world war. In the shadows of the Blitz, Hitler's agents are running
a blackmail operation to obtain documents that could bring the
nation to instant defeat. Arthur Rowe, a man once convicted of a
notorious mercy killing, stumbles onto a German spy operation in
Bloomsbury and must be silenced. But even with his memory taken
from him, he is still a very dangerous witness. A taut thriller and
a haunting exploration of pity, love, and guilt, The Ministry of
Fear by Graham Greene is universally acknowledged as one of the
greatest of all spy novels. With an introduction by the biographer
and editor Professor Richard Greene. Designed to appeal to the
booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of
beautifully bound gift editions of much loved classic titles.
Pinkie Brown, a neurotic teenage gangster wielding a razor blade
and a bottle of sulfuric acid, commits a brutal murder - but it
does not go unnoticed. Rose, a naive young waitress at a rundown
cafe, has the unwitting power to destroy his crucial alibi, and Ida
Arnold, a woman bursting with easy certainties about what is right
and wrong, has made it her mission to bring about justice and
redemption. Set among the seaside amusements and dilapidated
boarding houses of Brighton's pre-war underworld, Brighton Rock by
Graham Greene is both a gritty thriller and a study of a soul in
torment. A classic of modern literature, it maps out the strange
border between piety and savagery. This beautiful Macmillan
Collector's Library edition of Brighton Rock features an
introduction by the poet, biographer and editor, Professor Richard
Greene. Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan
Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much
loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to
love and treasure.
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton.
Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can
escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous,
life-embracing Ida Arnold, who is determined to avenge a death.
""Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they
meant to murder him...""
Graham Greene's chilling expose of violence and gang warfare in
the pre-war underworld is a classic of its kind.
Pinkie, a teenage gangster on the rise, is devoid of compassion or
human feeling, despising weakness of both the spirit and the flesh.
Responsible for the razor slashes that killed mob boss Kite and
also for the death of Hale, a reporter who threatened the
livelihood of the mob, Pinkie is the embodiment of calculated evil.
As a Catholic, however, Pinkie is convinced that his retribution
does not lie in human hands.
He is therefore not prepared for Ida Arnold, Hale's avenging
angel. Ida, whose allegiance is with life, the here and now, has
her own ideas about the circumstances surrounding Hale's death. For
the sheer joy of it, she takes up the challenge of bringing the
infernal Pinkie to an earthly kind of justice.
This Penguin Classics Deluxe edition features an introduction by J.
M. Coetzee.
""Wilson"" sat on the balcony of the Bedford Hotel with his bald
pink knees thrust against the ironwork...""
Graham Greene's masterpiece, The Heart of the Matter, tells the
story of a good man enmeshed in love, intrigue, and evil in a West
African coastal town. Scobie is bound by strict integrity to his
role as assistant police commissioner and by severe responsibility
to his wife, Louise, for whom he cares with a fatal pity.
When Scobie falls in love with the young widow Helen, he finds
vital passion again yielding to pity, integrity giving way to
deceit and dishonor--a vortex leading directly to murder. As
Scobie's world crumbles, his personal crisis develops the
foundation of a story by turns suspenseful, fascinating, and,
finally, tragic.
Originally published in 1948, The Heart of the Matter is the
unforgettable portrait of one man--flawed yet heroic, destroyed and
redeemed by a terrible conflict of passion and faith. This Penguin
Deluxe Edition features an introduction by James Wood.
With a new introduction by Zadie Smith@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt;Into the
intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic
American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious "Third
Force." As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend
Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand
aside and watch. But even as he intervenes he wonders why: for the
sake of politics, or for love?
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Our Man in Havana (Paperback)
Graham Greene; Introduction by Christopher Hitchens
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MI6's man in Havana is Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman
turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep
his job, he files bogus reports based on Charles Lamb's "Tales from
Shakespeare" and dreams up military installations from
vacuum-cleaner designs. Then his stories start coming disturbingly
true...
First published in 1959 against the backdrop of the Cold War, Our
Man in Havana remains one of Graham Greene's most widely read
novels. It is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study,
and a political satire of government intelligence that still
resonates today. This Penguin Classics edition features an
introduction by Christopher Hitchens.
""I met Aunt Augusta for the first time at my mother's funeral...""
Described by Graham Greene as "the only book I have written just
for the fun of it," Travels with My Aunt is the story of Hanry
Pulling, a retired and complacent bank manager who meets his
septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time at what he supposes
to be his mother's funeral. She soon persuades Henry to abandon his
dull suburban existence to travel "her "way--winding through
Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, and Paraguay. Through Aunt Augusta, one
of Greene's greatest comic creations, Henry joins a shiftless,
twilight society; mixes with hippies, war criminals, and CIA men;
smokes pot; and breaks all currency regulations.
Originally published in 1970, Travels with My Aunt offers
intoxicating entertainment, yet also confronts some of the most
perplexing human dilemmas. This Penguin Deluxe Edition features an
introduction by Gloria Emerson.
Rollo Martins, a failing novelist, is invited to Vienna by his best
friend, Harry Lime. The city he arrives in is unrecognizable - 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.
Accompanied here by twelve further stories that exhibit the full
range of Graham Greene's masterly storytelling, The Third Man is an
atmospheric noir that oozes with suspense. With an introduction by
the biographer and editor Professor Richard Greene. Designed to
appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a
series of beautifully bound gift editions of much loved classic
titles.
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The Comedians (Paperback)
Graham Greene; Introduction by Paul Theroux
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Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of
the corrupt ?Papa Doc? and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret
police. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American, and Jones
the confidence man?these are the ?comedians? of Greene's title.
Hiding behind their actors? masks, they hesitate on the edge of
life. They are men afraid of love, afraid of pain, afraid of fear
itself...
Greene takes us on a wild, unconventional and enlightening voyage
with an ordinary, retired bank manager and his eccentric, daring
aunt. Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his
septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years
at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. Soon after, she
persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, to travel to Brighton, Paris,
Istanbul, Paraguay, and a shiftless, twilight society of hippies,
war criminals, CIA men that will help Henry come alive after a dull
suburban life. VINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys, from the
tallest mountains to the depths of the mind
Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and
morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man who had better motives for
all the trouble he caused," Graham Greene's narrator Fowler remarks
of Alden Pyle, the eponymous "Quiet American" of what is perhaps
the most controversial novel of his career. Pyle is the brash young
idealist sent out by Washington on a mysterious mission to Saigon,
where the French Army struggles against the Vietminh guerrillas. As
young Pyle's well-intentioned policies blunder into bloodshed,
Fowler, a seasoned and cynical British reporter, finds it
impossible to stand safely aside as an observer. But Fowler's
motives for intervening are suspect, both to the police and
himself, for Pyle has stolen Fowler's beautiful Vietnamese
mistress. Originally published in 1956 and twice adapted to film,
The Quiet American remains a terrifiying and prescient portrait of
innocence at large. This Graham Greene Centennial Edition includes
a new introductory essay by Robert Stone. For more than seventy
years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature
in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin
Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout
history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series
to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes
by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as
up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman, was short of money. His daughter had reached an expensive age - so he accepted Hawthorne's offer of $300-plus a month and became Agent 59200/5, M.I.6's man in Havana. To keep the job, Wormold pretends to recruit sub-agents and sends fake stories. Then the stories start coming disturbingly true
Few novelists have taken films as seriously, or been closely
involved in so many aspects of the film business all their lives,
as Graham Greene. Even at University he was touching on it. His
long-term experience of the evolving art included producing,
performing, script-writing and adaptation. Not to mention the libel
case against him brought by Miss Shirley Temple for some
disobliging words. Mornings in the Dark gathers some of Greene's
best film criticism with a mass of related material: his film
articles, interviews, lectures and radio talks, stories for film,
letters and film proposals. With appendices on Greene's own films
and unfulfilled film projects, and David Parkinson's introduction,
this is an essential collection for readers of fiction and film
enthusiasts alike.
Rollo Martins' usual line is the writing of cheap paperback Westerns under the name of Buck Dexter. But when his old friend Harry Lime invites him to Vienna, he jumps at the chance. With exactly five pounds in his pocket, he arrives only just in time to make it to his friend's funeral. The victim of an apparently banal street accident, the late Mr. Lime, it seems, had been the focus of a criminal investigation, suspected of nothing less than being "the worst racketeer who ever made a dirty living in this city." Martins is determined to clear his friend's name, and begins an investigation of his own...
The last priest is on the run. During an anti-clerical purge in one of the southern states of Mexico, he is hunted like a hare. Too human for heroism, too humble for martyrdom, the little world 'whisky priest' is nevertheless impelled towards his squalid Calvary as much by his own compassion for humanity as by the efforts of his pursuers. A baleful vulture of doom hovers over this modern crucifixion story, but above the vulture soars an eagle - the inevitability of the Church's triumph.
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment
of experience from which to look ahead... This is a record of hate
far more than of love, writes Maurice Bendrix in the opening
passages of The End of the Affair, and it is a strange hate indeed
that compels him to set down the retrospective account of his
adulterous affair with Sarah Miles. Now, a year after Sarah's
death, Bendrix seeks to exorcise the persistence of his passion by
retracing its course from obsessive love to love-hate. At first, he
believes he hates Sarah and her husband, Henry. Yet as he delves
further into his emotional outlook, Bendrix's hatred shifts to the
God he feels has broken his life, but whose existence at last comes
to recognize. Originally published in 1951, The End of the Affair
was acclaimed by William Faulkner as for me one of the best, most
true and moving novels of my time, in anybody's language. This
Penguin Deluxe Edition features an introduction by Michael Gorra.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher
of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than
1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the
best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines.
Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by
introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary
authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning
translators.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOOD. Scobie, a police officer
serving in a wartime West African state, is distrusted, being
scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in
love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes
in, with drastic and tragic consequences.
'In August 1981 my bag was packed for my fifth visit to Panama when
the news came to me over the telephone of the death of General Omar
Torrijos Herrera, my friend and host. . . At that moment the idea
came to me to write a short personal memoir. . . of a man I had
grown to love over those five years' GETTING TO KNOW THE GENERAL is
Graham Greene's account of a five-year personal involvement with
Omar Torrijos, ruler of Panama from 1968-81 and Sergeant Chuchu,
one of the few men in the National Guard whom the General trusted
completely. It is a fascinating tribute to an inspirational
politician in the vital period of his country's history, and to an
unusual and enduring friendship.
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