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The Human Factor: Introduction by Peter Kemp Hardback - 1992

by Graham Greene; Introduction by Peter Kemp

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The Human Factor--a story of betrayal, love and death--is a masterpiece of spy fiction, called "a cunning moral thriller from a master storyteller". (Chicago Tribune) "An elegant work . . . Greene's success is total".--Newsweek.

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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.

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  • Title The Human Factor: Introduction by Peter Kemp
  • Author Graham Greene; Introduction by Peter Kemp
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition Later prt.
  • Pages 378
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Everyman's Library, New York
  • Publication date 1992-03-10
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780679409922 / 0679409920
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.22 x 5.3 x 1.02 in (20.88 x 13.46 x 2.59 cm)
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Spy stories, Spies - Great Britain
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 91053189
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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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

About the author

Graham Greene was born in 1904. While at Balliol College, Oxford, he published his first book of verse. He continues to write throughout his lifetime, and is the author of The Third Man, Our Man in Havana, The Quiet American, and The End of the Affair, in addition to many other novels, short story collections, plays, essays, travel books, and film scripts. During World War II he served with the British Secret Intelligence Service. He died in 1991.
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