Life of Graham Greene (Volume 3) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Life of Graham Greene, Volume 3: 1955--1991 is the third and final part of Norman Sherry

Norman Sherry

Norman Sherry is an English born American novelist, biographer, and educator who is most well known for his three-volume biography of the British novelist Graham Greene. He has an older brother Thomas Taylor Sherry and a twin brother called Alan Sherry...

's biography of the famous 20th century British author, published in 2004.

Part 1 - Novelist as Playwright

1. 1991: our Man Dying / 2. his Noble Head of Hair (the Delilah Twist) / 3. Greene on Broadway / 4. Secrets of The Potting Shed
The Potting Shed
The Potting Shed is a play by Graham Greene. The psychological drama centers on a secret held by the Callifer family for nearly thirty years....

Part 2 - Little Miss Lolita

5. is it Pornography?

Part 3 - Affairs Won

6. Love's Blind Dance / 7. Actress in the Wings

Part 4 - Spy Mission: More Clouseau

Inspector Clouseau

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than Bond

James Bond

James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...

8. Cursing the Dragon
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

Part 5 - Affairs Lost

9. I Only Have Eyes for you ... and you / 10. Lovers come tumbling Down

Part 6 - from London Books to Cuban Crooks

11. Publishing Redux / 12. Heroes and Heroines / 13. Some Fidelistas, a Film and a Firing Squad

Part 7 - Entering Father Damien

Father Damien

Father Damien or Saint Damien of Molokai, SS.CC. , born Jozef De Veuster, was a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium and member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a missionary religious order...

Country

14. Another Escape Route / 15. in Search of a Character / 16. Down Tributaries of the River Congo: Happy Priests and a Gloomy Wanderer

Part 8 - the New Master of Farce

19. Graham's Final Success in the Theatre

Part 9 - Incessant Wanderer

20. Round the World in Forty-five Days / 21. I shall Rise and Go Now / 22.Crossing the Shadow-Line

Part 10 - Intimations of Mortality

23. Death is a Mole

Part 11 - Carving Two Failures

24. a Flop of Biblical proportions / 25. More Naked than the Law Allows

Part 12 - Voodoo Doc

François Duvalier

François Duvalier was the President of Haiti from 1957 until his death in 1971. Duvalier first won acclaim in fighting diseases, earning him the nickname "Papa Doc" . He opposed a military coup d'état in 1950, and was elected President in 1957 on a populist and black nationalist platform...

's Republic of Fear

26. Prelude in Blood / 27. Killing is my Pleasure

Part 13 - Coming Up Close to Creativity

28. Two Shades of Greene / 29. to Haiti by Sea / 30. the Real Mr.Jones

Part 14 - the 'Priest Thing'

31. He's Over the Wall

Part 15 - Farewell and a Kiss

32. Bonjour la France ('twas a Bad Year for Pigs) / 33. le Petit Chat / 34. Warming Up to the Cold Scots / 35. Confessions near an Egyptian Shore

Part 16 - a Weird Speech and a Zany Aunt

36. the Virtue of Disloyalty / 37. a Strange Dottoressa

Part 17 - a Masterpiece from the Old Fox

38. How Not to Snatch a Diplomat / 39. 'as Mystery-Laden as Life itself' / 40. the Ultimate Story

Part 18 - Torrijos

Omar Torrijos

Omar Efraín Torrijos Herrera was the Commander of the Panamanian and National Guard and the de facto leader of Panama from 1968 to 1981...

and Buying Bullets

41. my Pal the General / 42. That Old Goat and the Dictator in a Hammock / 43. Dashing around Central America

Part 19 - the Girl with the Coral Harp Bracelet

44. his true Love Dies

Part 20 - Going Out with a Bang

45. Angry Old Man / 46. Toe to Toe with the French Mafia

Part 21 - Windmills of Doubt

47. Sancho and the Saint / 48. the Lamb and the Lion: What did Greene Believe?

Part 22 - Accolades and Black Eyes

49. Raise the Plague Flag! / 50. Kudos in a bundle / 51. a Kinder, Gentler Moscow / 52. Boxing with Burgess
Anthony Burgess
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Part 23 - Final Hurrahs

53. Greene's Last Stand / 54. Hugh
Hugh Greene
Sir Hugh Carleton Greene KCMG, OBE was a British journalist and television executive. He was the Director-General of the BBC from 1960―1969, and is generally credited with modernising an organisation that had fallen behind in the wake of the launch of ITV in 1955.-Early life and work:Hugh was born...

and Elisabeth
Rodney Dennys
Lieutenant-Colonel Rodney Onslow Dennys, CVO, OBE, FSA was a British foreign service operative and long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. During World War II he served in the Intelligence Corps of the British Army.Dennys joined the Foreign Service in 1937, serving in...

Part 24 - our Man Dead

55. our Man Dead

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