The Human Factor (Twentieth Century Classics)

The Human Factor (Twentieth Century Classics)

by Graham Greene (Author)

Synopsis

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Graham Greene's passion for moral complexity and his stylistic aplomb were perfectly suited to the cat-and mouse game of the spy novel, a genre he practically invented and to which he periodically returned while fashioning one of the twentieth century's longest, most triumphant literary careers. Written late in his life, "The Human Factor" displays his gift for suspense at its most refined level, and his understanding of the physical and spiritual vulnerability of the individual at its deepest.

$5.32

Save:$5.16 (49%)

Quantity

2 in stock

More Information

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 03 Oct 1991

ISBN 10: 0140184988
ISBN 13: 9780140184983

Media Reviews
The Human Factor is Greene's most extensive attempt to incorporate into fiction what he had learned of espionage when recruited by MI6 during World War II . . . What it offers is a veteran excursion into Greene's imaginative world . . . Sometimes seen as a brooding prober into the dark recesses of the soul where sins and scruples alike fester, he is equally at home in sending a narrative careering along at break-neck pace . . . Raising the demarcation line between 'serious' fiction and fast-plotted entertainment, Greene ensures that components of both jostle energizingly together in his pages. -from the Introduction by Peter Kemp