The Third Man and the Fallen Idol by Graham Greene - ISBN: 9780140185331
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Post-war Vienna’s darkness, deadly lies, and innocence lost revealed.

The Third Man and the Fallen Idol

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  • Paperback

    160 pages

  • Release Date

    1 July 1992

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Summary

The Third Man is Greene’s brilliant recreation of post-war Vienna, a city of desolate poverty occupied by four powers. Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless in Vienna to visit his old friend and hero Harry Lime. Harry is dead, but the circumstances surrounding his death are highly suspicious, and his reputation, at the very least, dubious.

Graham Greene said of The Third Man that he “wanted to entertain people, to frighten them a little, to make them laugh” and the …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780140185331
ISBN-10:014018533X
Author:Graham Greene
Publisher:Penguin Books
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:160
Release Date:1 July 1992
Weight:140g
Dimensions:10mm x 129mm x 196mm
Series:Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
About The Author

Graham Greene

Graham Greene, the novelist, served with the Secret Intelligence Service during WWII. Greene died in 1991.

Hugh Greene came to prominence as a journalist in Nazi Berlin. After being expelled from Germany just before WWII, he served in the RAF as an interrogator. Greene went on to join the BBC and was made Director-General in 1960. He died in 1987.

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