The Third Man and the Fallen Idol
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- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
1 July 1992
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 |
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| 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 |
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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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