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A gang war rages through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold, who is determined to avenge a death.
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Overview

A gang war rages through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold, who is determined to avenge a death.

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To honor Greene's centennial, Penguin is reissuing these six titles in deluxe editions featuring new cover art, French flaps, and ragged paper at an affordable price. Very nice if you need some new copies. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780142437971
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 10/28/2004
  • Edition description: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
  • Pages: 288
  • Sales rank: 90,141
  • Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.58 (w) x 8.44 (h) x 0.81 (d)

Meet the Author

Graham Greene
Graham Greene
Known for his espionage thrillers set in exotic locales, Graham Greene is the writer who launched a thousand travel journalists. But although Greene produced some unabashedly commercial works -- he called them "entertainments," to distinguish them from his novels -- even his escapist fiction is rooted in the gritty realities he encountered around the globe.

Biography

Known for his espionage thrillers set in exotic locales, Graham Greene is the writer who launched a thousand travel journalists. But although Greene produced some unabashedly commercial works -- he called them "entertainments," to distinguish them from his novels -- even his escapist fiction is rooted in the gritty realities he encountered around the globe. "Greeneland" is a place of seedy bars and strained loyalties, of moral dissolution and physical decay.

Greene spent his university years at Oxford "drunk and debt-ridden," and claimed to have played Russian roulette as an antidote to boredom. At age 21 he converted to Roman Catholicism, later saying, "I had to find a religion...to measure my evil against." His first published novel, The Man Within, did well enough to earn him an advance from his publishers, but though Greene quit his job as a Times subeditor to write full-time, his next two novels were unsuccessful. Finally, pressed for money, he set out to write a work of popular fiction. Stamboul Train (also published as The Orient Express) was the first of many commercial successes.

Throughout the 1930s, Greene wrote novels, reviewed books and movies for the Spectator, and traveled through eastern Europe, Liberia, and Mexico. One of his best-known works, Brighton Rock, was published during this time; The Power and the Glory, generally considered Greene's masterpiece, appeared in 1940. Along with The Heart of the Matter and The End of the Affair, they cemented Greene's reputation as a serious novelist -- though George Orwell complained about Greene's idea "that there is something rather distingué in being damned; Hell is a sort of high-class nightclub, entry to which is reserved for Catholics only."

During World War II, Greene was stationed in Sierra Leone, where he worked in an intelligence capacity for the British Foreign Office under Kim Philby, who later defected to the Soviet Union. After the war, Greene continued to write stories, plays, and novels, including The Quiet American, Travels with My Aunt, The Honorary Consul, and The Captain and the Enemy. For a time, he worked as a screenwriter for MGM, producing both original screenplays and scripts adapted from his fiction.

He also continued to travel, reporting from Vietnam, Haiti, and Panama, among other places, and he became a vocal critic of U.S. foreign policy in Central America. Some biographers have suggested that his friendships with Communist leaders were a ploy, and that he was secretly gathering intelligence for the British government. The more common view is that Greene's leftist leanings were part of his lifelong sympathy with the world's underdogs -- what John Updike called his "will to compassion, an ideal communism even more Christian than Communist. Its unit is the individual, not any class."

But if Greene's politics were sometimes difficult to decipher, his stature as a novelist has seldom been in doubt, in spite of the light fiction he produced. Kingsley Amis, Evelyn Waugh, and R. K. Narayan paid tribute to his work, and William Golding prophesied: "He will be read and remembered as the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety."

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Greene's philandering ways were legendary; he frequently visited prostitutes and had several mistresses, including Catherine Walston, who converted to Catholicism after reading The Power and the Glory and wrote to Greene asking him to be her godfather. After a brief period of correspondence, the two met, and their relationship inspired Greene's novel The End of the Affair.

Greene was a film critic, screenwriter, and avid moviegoer, and critics have sometimes praised the cinematic quality of his style. His most famous screenplay was The Third Man, which he cowrote with director Carol Reed. Recently, new film adaptations have been made of Greene's novels The End of the Affair and The Quiet American. Greene's work has also formed the basis for an opera: Our Man in Havana, composed by Malcolm Williamson.

    1. Also Known As:
      Henry Graham Greene (birth name)
    1. Date of Birth:
      October 2, 1904
    2. Place of Birth:
      Berkhamsted, England
    1. Date of Death:
      April 3, 1991
    2. Place of Death:
      Vevey, Switzerland
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  • Posted September 28, 2011

    Story is interesting. Nook version is weird.

    I am enjoying the book, but the downloaded version has some layout issues. There are random numbers strewn about and some of the sentences are incomplete which takes away from the flow of the story. Obvioulsy, not the writer's fault!

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  • Posted September 16, 2009

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    A delightful coming-of-age tale

    Graham Green takes us back to the quaint seaside resort town of Brighton as he knew it in the early 1930's, a colorful town known for it's hard sugary candy (the "Brighton Rock" of the title) and colorful locals. The novel follows the young Pinkie Brown as he sets out to make a name for himself as an entrepreneur, selling tickets to watch horse races, learning from the chief businessman of the area, and even finding love along the way! Read this book now if you want to escape from the dreariness and crime and grit of modern life, and escape through Greene's rose-tinted glasses to a gentler age that we've long since left behind.

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  • Posted January 22, 2009

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    wonderful read

    Johnny Rotten from the Sex Pistols talked about how much he like this book and so I picked it up. Not your typical hoods.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 23, 2004

    Another exquisite read by Graham Greene

    I recently revisited 'Brighton Rock' several years after a rather unmemorable undergraduate reading, but this time I was simply entranced. Greene paints the character of Pinkie with broad strokes of a melodrama that never seems forced, symbolism that is omnipresent but quite powerfully drawn. A masterpiece!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 17, 2003

    i read this book

    I read this book in hopes of discovering the mystery of it's character Pinkie who seemed to be a famous fictional person that I had heard metioned somewhere. So, I read it, but I think that I will never truly understand him. However, I think it was worth reading because this is the only book of Graham Greene's that I've read. I may not completely ever understand it but it gives me something to think about. There are different ways at looking at the story, and that's why I think others should read it. Sometimes its your own reactions that gets you thinking, and wondering why you reacted to it that way.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 22, 2001

    This book is wonderful

    This is the first book to ever inspire me. The characters are convincing and alive, the story intriguing from day one, and written with such a pace that the reader can't help being dragged along to the spectacular conclusion. Combines the best bits of The Catcher in the Rye and The Power and the Glory. Read it!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 18, 2000

    'Brighton Rock' Bombs

    The heading says all: this book simply is terrible. It's required reading for some, which is completely cruel to inflict. It is pointless, poorly written, and altogether stupid.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 28, 2000

    great book

    this book had all the action and plot a grown man could ask for. It was an amazing piece of literature that I will never forget

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 29, 2000

    A psychotic main character doesn't make for an interesting book

    This book may be hailed by english teachers but it honestly is a poor piece of literature. Grahm Greene's novel is full of unnecessary details, boarish main characters, a disrespect for religion, and an underlying aura of distaste for England in the time period it is written about. Very disappointing to read and discuss.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 15, 2000

    a piece of the most beautiful fiction

    Graham Greene has the brilliancy to create unforgettable characters, both good and evil, worthy of a readers symphathy. His prose is poetic, his voice, honest. BRIGHTON ROCK is an original tale of living on life's youthful edge.

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