The Man Within
  • Published: 1 June 2001
  • ISBN: 9780099286158
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $29.99

The Man Within

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Set in the early 19th Century, The Man Within is Greene’s only historical novel, as well his first published novel.

This is the story of Francis Andrews, a young man whose betrayal of his fellow smugglers has left a man dead. Fearing vengeance, he flees and takes refuge in the house of a young, isolated woman who persuades him to give evidence against his accomplices in court. But neither she nor Andrews is aware that to both criminals and authority, treachery is as great a crime as smuggling.
  • Published: 1 June 2001
  • ISBN: 9780099286158
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Graham Greene

Graham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in 1940 became literary editor of the Spectator. He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991.

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Praise for The Man Within

Full of treasures for Greene enthusiasts: a complex web of betrayal and deceit and a tormented central character

Observer

From the beginning Greene was fascinated by the thriller, which has at its heart deceit, an idea or an ideal betrayed, emotion hidden behind a mask

Guardian

Greene had wit and grace and character and story, and a transcendant, universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature

John Le Carre

He was a writer who was intensely interested in the world more than in books or ideas. And this is why he was such a good story-teller. He was the least parochial of writers yet he was always interested in the particular

John Berger

One of our greatest authors... For experience of a whole century he was the man within

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