A celebrated collection of stories from one of the most important British writers of the twentieth century. Features Greene's most famous short story,'The Destructors'.Written between 1929 and 1954,each of these stories bears the hallmark themes that characterise Greene's great novels: betrayal and vengeance,love and hate,pity and violence.Opening with the iconic story'The Destructors',in which a gang of schoolboys destroys a house that has survived the Blitz,Greene offers us deliciously satisfying glimpses into twenty-one worlds,with each piece written as masterfully as his novels. From the chilling climax of a children's birthday party,to a man whose youthful indiscretions come back to haunt him,these are the unmistakable work of one of the twentieth century's greatest and most adored storytellers.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099286165Number of pages: 208Weight: 153 gDimensions: 198 x 130 x 14 mm
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A superb storyteller..he had a talent for depicting local colour,which he gathered at first hand; a keen sense of the dramatic; an eye for dialogue,and skill in pacing his prose - New York TimesOne of the most important British writers of the twentieth centuryGreene was a force beyond his books... The outsider,the dissenter,the spoiled priest,the failure,the classic underdog - out of characters such as these Greene made novels and stories which have enriched hundreds of thousands of readers
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