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Duel Duet Audiolivro

Selected Stories

de Graham Greene
idioma: inglês
Editor: Random House, agosto de 2025 ‧
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Brought to you by Penguin.Graham Greene, known for his iconic novels, also wrote exceptional short stories. Here some of the best have been arranged into pairs - to be read as a duel or duet - by novelist and Greene aficionado, Yiyun Li.Twenty-two of Greene's very best stories are collected here, each of them bearing the hallmark themes that characterise his great novels: innocence and vengeance, love and hate, pity and violence.Writer and Greene aficionado, Yiyun Li, has arranged the stories into pairs, to be read together in contrast or in harmony - as a duel or a duet. In doing so Li draws out the extraordinary power in Greene's work, creating an ingenious new perspective on a writer we thought we knew. Unexpected, surprising and wide-ranging, this is the short fiction of one of the twentieth century's greatest and most adored storytellers, revealing his brilliance as never before.'No twentieth-century writer had a subtler mind for human comparison' Zadie Smith'Greene had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature' John le Carre'One of the most important British writers of the twentieth century' Daily Telegraph'A superb storyteller' New York Times'One of the finest writers of any language' Washington Post'One of our greatest authors' IndependentSELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY YIYUN LI(c) Graham Greene 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025

Duel Duet

Selected Stories

de Graham Greene

Propriedade Descrição
ISBN: 9781529976656
Editor: Random House
Data de Lançamento: agosto de 2025
Idioma: Inglês
Tipo de produto: Audiolivro
Tamanho Ficheiro B
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Classificação Temática: Audiolivros em Inglês > Literatura > Romance
EAN: 9781529976656

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Graham Greene

Escritor inglês nascido em 1904 e falecido em 1991. Henry Graham Greene, tendo vivido um infância dolorosa, estudou em Oxford e foi jornalista (1926-1929), crítico de cinema (1935-1939) e diretor literário de vários jornais e editoras. A sua obra é muito vasta, repartindo-se entre romances, "entertainments" (termo por ele próprio adotado), peças de teatro, coletâneas de contos e novelas, ensaios, livros para crianças e argumentos cinematográficos. Podem destacar-se The Basement Room (1935), The Power and Glory (1940), The Heart of the Matter (1948), The End of the Affair (1952), The Potting Shed (1959) e Carving a Statue (1964).

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