- Fiction, World War, 1939-1945, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Large type books
In a prison in occupied France one in every ten men is to be shot. The prisoners draw lots among themselves - and for rich lawyer Louis Chavel, it seems that his whole life has been leading up to an agonizing and crucial failure of nerve.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and intimate.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Graham Greene
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 157
- Publisher
- L&OD, Penguin Random House, Edhasa
- Editions
- 31
- Language
- Spanish, heb, English
- ISBN
- 9780886194260
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“MOST OF THEM TOLD THE TIME VERY ROUGHLY BY THEIR meals, which were unpunctual and irregular: they amused themselves with the most childish games all through the day, and when it was dark they fell asleep by tacit consent-not waiting for a particular hour of darkness for they had no means of telling the time exactly: in fact there were as many times as there were prisoners.”
Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major writer, both of serious Catholic novels, and of thrillers. He was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times. Through 67 years of writing, which included over 25 novels, he explored the conflicting moral and political issues of the modern world. *The Power and the Glory* won the 1941 Hawthornden Prize and *The Heart of the Matter* won the 1948 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the B
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