Author:
Greene, Graham, 1904-1991.
Imprint:New York : Viking Press, [1969]
Description463 p. 21 cm.
Note:Part I: Personal prologue. -- Lost childhood.
Note:Part II: Novels and novelists: -- Henry James: the private universe -- Henry James: the religious aspect -- Portrait of a lady -- Plays of Henry James -- Dark backward -- Two friends -- From feathers to iron -- Fielding and Sterne -- Servants of the novel -- Romance in Pimlico -- Young Dickens -- Hans Andersen -- François Mauriac -- Bernanos, the beginner -- Burden of childhood -- Man made angry -- G.K. Chesterton -- Walter de la Mare's short stories -- Saratoga trunk -- Arabia deserta -- Poker-face -- Ford Madox Ford -- Frederick Rolfe: Edwardian inferno -- Frederick Rolfe: from the devil's side -- Frederick Rolfe: a spoiled priest -- Remembering Mr. Jones -- Domestic background -- Public life -- Goats and incense -- Some notes on Somerset Maugham -- Town of Malgudi -- Rider Haggard's secret -- Journey into success -- Isis idol -- Last Buchan -- Edgar Wallace -- Beatrix Potter -- Harkaway's Oxford.
Note:Part III: Some characters: - Poetry from Limbo -- Unheroic dramatist -- Doctor Oates of Salamanca -- Anthony á Wood -- John Evelyn -- Background for heroes -- Hoax on Mr. Hulton -- Jacobite poet -- Charles Churchill -- Lover of Leeds -- Inside Oxford -- George Darley -- Apostles intervene -- Mr. Cooke's century -- Explorers -- Sore bones; much headache -- Francis Parkman -- Don in Mexico -- Samuel Butler -- Ugly act -- Eric Gill -- Herbert Read -- Conservative -- Norman Douglas -- Invincible ignorance -- Victor and the victim -- Simone Weil Three priests: -- Oxford chaplain -- Paradox of a pope -- Eighty years on the Barrack Square -- Three revolutionaries: -- Man as pure as Lucifer -- Marxist heretic -- Spy -- Portrait of a maiden lady -- Film lunch -- Unknown war -- Great dog of Weimar -- British pig -- George Moore and others -- At home
Note:Part IV: Personal Postscript: - The soupsweet land
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