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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100679409920

ISBN-139780679409922

eBay Product ID (ePID)100291

Product Key Features

Book TitleHuman Factor : Introduction by Peter Kemp

Number of Pages378 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1992

TopicLiterary

GenreFiction

AuthorGraham Greene

Book SeriesEveryman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight18 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width8.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN91-053189

Dewey Edition22

TitleLeadingThe

ReviewsThe Human Factor is Greene's most extensive attempt to incorporate into fiction what he had learned of espionage when recruited by MI6 during World War II . . . What it offers is a veteran excursion into Greene's imaginative world . . . Sometimes seen as a brooding prober into the dark recesses of the soul where sins and scruples alike fester, he is equally at home in sending a narrative careering along at break-neck pace . . . Raising the demarcation line between 'serious' fiction and fast-plotted entertainment, Greene ensures that components of both jostle energizingly together in his pages." from the Introduction by Peter Kemp, The Human Factoris Greene's most extensive attempt to incorporate into fiction what he had learned of espionage when recruited by MI6 during World War II . . . What it offers is a veteran excursion into Greene's imaginative world . . . Sometimes seen as a brooding prober into the dark recesses of the soul where sins and scruples alike fester, he is equally at home in sending a narrative careering along at break-neck pace . . . Raising the demarcation line between 'serious' fiction and fast-plotted entertainment, Greene ensures that components of both jostle energizingly together in his pages." from the Introduction by Peter Kemp, "Graham Greene's beautiful and disturbing novel is filled with tenderness, humour, excitement and doubt." - The Times From the Trade Paperback edition.

Dewey Decimal823/.912

SynopsisGraham Greene's passion for moral complexity and his stylistic aplomb were perfectly suited to the cat-and mouse game of the spy novel, a genre he practically invented and to which he periodically returned while fashioning one of the twentieth century's longest, most triumphant literary careers. Written late in his life, The Human Factor displays his gift for suspense at its most refined level, and his understanding of the physical and spiritual vulnerability of the individual at its deepest.

LC Classification NumberPR6013.R44 H8 1992